The History of Remote Sensing遥感技术的历史.ppt

A Brief History of Remote SensingCindy Webb Karisa VlasekNASA Nebraska Space Grant  EPSCoRUniversity of Nebraska at Omaha What is Remote Sensing? “In the broadest sense, the measurement or acquisition of information of some property of an object or phenomenon, by a recording device that is not in physical or intimate contact with the object or phenomenon under study; e.g., the utilization at a distance (as from aircraft, spacecraft, or ship) of any device and its attendant display for gathering information pertinent to the environment, such as measurements of force fields, electromagnetic radiation, or acoustic energy.” What is Remote Sensing? The technique employs such devices as the camera, lasers, and radio frequency receivers, radar systems, sonar, seismographs, gravimeters, magnetometers, and scintillation counters.” How did remote sensing begin? 1859 – Gaspard Felix Tournachon 1859 – Gaspard Felix Tournachon took cameras up into a balloon to make land surveys. He was not very successful, but this began aerial photography. Unfortunately, this first picture is lost. 1860s – Aerial photos from balloons continued to be the standard. 1882 – E. Archibald E. Archibald of England began mounting cameras on kites and this method stayed popular through the last two decades of 19th century. 1897 – Rocket Ships “Historically, the first photos taken from a small rocket, from a height of about 100 meters, were imaged from a rocket designed by Alfred Nobel (of Prize fame) and launched in 1897 over a Swedish landscape:” 1903 - Pigeons Cameras were attached to pigeons. The cameras were programmed to take a picture every 30 seconds as the pigeon flew along. 1904 – Alfred Maul The first rocket to obtain aerial photographs at 600 meters, less than one mile, was launched by Alfred Maul. 1908 – Wilbur Wright 1908 – Wilbur Wright piloted the first plane as his passenger, L.P. Bonvillain, took aerial photographs in France. 1908 – Wilbur Wright Below are pi