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Department of Spatial Sciences

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Faculty of Environmental Sciences acquired two types of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). First type is wing-based aircraft called eBee from Swiss factory – SenseFly SA. It is very popular and flexible vehicle able to fully autonomous flight based on set waypoints. Except full-HD RGB camera, vehicle is also equipped with 4-channel multispectral camera system Airinov multiSPEC 4C. Second model, the bigger one, is precise product of the Czech company – Robodrone Industries. Hexa-copter called Kingfisher is able to very detailed sensing of any are at the visible spectrum alike at other spectral channels. For this reason, vehicle is equipped with professional 6-channel multispectral camera system from American Tetracam. The faculty is also fitted out with specialized software solutions for data post-processing like Postflight Terra 3D, Agisoft Photoscan, Pix4Dmapper, Exelis ENVI and ESRI ArcGIS.