Remote Sensing and Image Processing

Thermal Image or "Heat Map" of Phnom Penh

Remote sensing systems provide a repetitive and consistent view of the Earth that is invaluable to monitoring the Earth system and the effect of human activities on the Earth. Important applications of remote sensing and imaging include:

  • Environmental assessment and monitoring
  • Forest Carbon Assessment
  • Change detection and monitoring
  • Agriculture
  • Non-renewable resource exploration
  • Renewable natural resources
  • Meteorology
  • Mapping
  • Military surveillance and reconnaissance
  • News media

Image processing may be considered to be the act of turning the raw data into useful and meaningful information. Image processing allows digital image data to be displayed, enhanced, analyzed or output in colour or grey scale format.

  • Enhancing the features of interest
  • Changing the image geometry
  • Extracting patterns
  • Removing noise
  • Reducing data volume




Equipment Donation to RUA

The Royal University of Agriculture’s department of Land Management and Land Administration, were the recipients of 3 complete sets of GNSS survey equipment, donated by Trimble and Aruna Technology. The equipment will allow the extension of teaching to include current GNSS survey techniques, in addition to the optical survey techniques currently taught at the department. more »

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Kamchay Hydropower Project – May 2012

This image shows the extent of the reservoir of the recently completed Kamchay hydropower project. The image is from the ...

Bokor Mountain Development

Interesting satellite image showing the extent of the Bokor Mountain development in Cambodia, which is still under construction.[caption id="attachment_803" align="aligncenter" ...