Assessment of UAV image quality in terms of optical resolution

Zachar, Paulina; Wilk, Łukasz; Pilarska-Mazurek, Magdalena; Meißner, Henry; Ostrowski, Wojciech

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Assessment of UAV image quality in terms of optical resolution

Paulina Zachar, Łukasz Wilk, Magdalena Pilarska-Mazurek, Henry Meißner, and Wojciech Ostrowski

Paulina Zachar

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1830-9423

Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography, Department of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Systems, Warsaw, Poland

Łukasz Wilk

Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography, Department of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Systems, Warsaw, Poland

Magdalena Pilarska-Mazurek

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9494-9863

Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography, Department of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Systems, Warsaw, Poland

Henry Meißner

Institute of Optical Sensor Systems, German Aerospace Center, 12489 Berlin, Germany

Wojciech Ostrowski

Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography, Department of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Systems, Warsaw, Poland

Faculty of History, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland

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