Technical equipment of the Remote Sensing Laboratory

The equipment of the Remote Sensing Laboratory of the NTUA includes: new generation multispectral, hypserpectral and thermal image acquisition systems, autonomous aerial robotic systems for image acquisitions (fixed-wing, drones), spectroradiometers and other in-situ measurement instruments, in-house software and opensourse geoinformation systems for systematic collection and processing of earth observation imagery.

The Remote Sensing Lab. equipment includes:

Remote Sensing Airborne Image Acquisition Systems and Necessary Accessories:

VNIR Spectrographic Imaging System CASI-550 (ITRES, Canada)
Thermal Imaging System TABI-320 (ITRES, Canada)
Micro-Hyperspectral VNIR Sensor (Headwall Photonics, USA)
Onyxstar BAT-F8 8copter (Altigator, Belgium)
Airborne GPS/IMU navigation system Applanix POS/AV 410 (Applanix, Canada)
Airborne GPS/IMU navigation system CMIGITS III (Systron Donner, USA)

Other Image Acquisition Systems:

EUMETSAT receiving station for continuous reception of METEOSAT images
FM receiver 134-141MHz for NOAA reception

Photo-Interpretation Instruments and Systems:

1 KARTOFLEX M map revision equipment (Aus JENA)
1 INTERPRETOSKOP C (Aus JENA)
1 Double mirror stereoscope (Sokkisha)
1 Zoom stereoscope (Bausch & Lomb)
13 Mirror stereoscopes (Aus JENA)
13 Mirror stereoscopes (Geoscope Stereo Aids)
8 Mirror stereoscopes (Ottico Meccanica)
1 Mirror stereoscope (Benz Bassel Photoplast)
1 Mirror stereoscope (3OM3)
4 Sketchmasters (Aus JENA)
200 Pocket stereoscopes (Aus JENA)

Field Trip Equipment:

1 hyperspectral handheld SpecimIQ camera
1 PSR 3500+ Spectroradiometer
1 GER 1500 Spectroradiometer with Magellan GPS.
1 Soil moisture sensor Decagon 5TE (water content, electric contuctivity and temperature sensor)
1 Thermal camera Trotec IC60
2 PDAs with GPS and ArcPad software.
1 Trimble Scoutmaster GPS.
1 Olympus IS3000 photographic camera.
1 Canon AE-1 photographic camera.
1 Nikon D70 Digital camera.

Extra Equipment:

1 Reflection-Transmition Color Densitometer Kodak (model 10-K).
1 Analogue oscilloscope 20MHz (dual channel).

Software for Digital Image Processing of Remotely Sensed Images and G.I.S. :

ENVI+IDL, ERDAS Imagine, ER Mapper, PCI Geomatica, Definiens Professional, ATCOR, SarScape, Idrisi, Orfeo Toolbox, QGIS, GRASS, SAGA, ArcGIS, Integraph, Manifold GIS, Matlab and inhouse developed software packages.

Computer Networks Serving the Na.T.U.Re'S Laboratory needs:

  • The Geo-Information Center of the Rural and Surveying Engineering Department. Relevant software available: ERDAS Imagine, ER Mapper, SoftPlotter, Opticks, ArcGIS, AutoCAD, BricsCAD, Adobe PhotoShop, Gimp, Corel Draw, Microsoft 365, LibreOffice etc.

  • The N.T.U.A. Campus Network. Relevant software available: ArcGIS, Oracle, MATLAB, SAS etc.

All NTUA students, personnel and collaborators may gain access to the computer center facilities.