Listed here are typical applications for which the Daedalus 1268 ATM Scanner has been used around the world in the past decade. The list falls into three main groups, namely, land, water and technological applications.
Land Related Applications:
. agricultural and soil analysis
. agricultural crop status/disease surveys
. Antarctic geology & ice studies
. drought damage assessments
. earthquake fault surveillance
. ecological studies
. electricity power line monitoring
. emergency services operations
. energy conservation
. environmental impact studies
. forest & grass fire mapping
. forest inventory
. forest disease (dieback) studies
. forest evaporation/transpiration studies
. geobotanical research
. geological mapping
. geothermal & geochemical exploration
. groundwater exploration
. industrial & commercial heat loss surveys
. land use studies
. landslide studies & monitoring
. mineral exploration
. mine restoration monitoring
. oil exploration
. rangelands condition research
. residential heat loss surveys
. soil erosion/degradation assessments
. soil moisture studies
. soil salinity monitoring
. strip mining monitoring
. urban microclimate studies
. urbiculture
. vegetation discrimination
. vegetation inventory, stress surveys
. volcano monitoring
. waste disposal site monitoring
. water use on rice farms
Water related applications:
. coral reef mapping/monitoring
. coastal & ocean water temp, impact on fishing
. effluent pollution studies
. environmental impact studies
. estuarine & coastal dynamics
. fresh water upwellings
. ground water spring mapping
. hydrobiological parameters
. ice mapping
. impact of gravel dredging in rivers
. impact of gravel dredging in estuaries
. kelp resource monitoring
. lake & estuary eutrophication
. lake water quality parameters
. methane gas detection
. ocean colour imaging
. oil leakage studies around shipwrecks
. oil pollution monitoring
. passive estuarine & coastal bathymetry
. satellite support studies (thermal & visible/infrared)
. sea grass mapping
. submarine (volcanic) & coastal discharges
. thermal & chemical water pollution studies
. thermal discharge detection
. thermal infrared studies of wildlife & wildlife habitats
. water pollution point identification
. water storage & dam siltation & defect studies
Technological applications:
. develop or test new sensors
. test add-on modules
. test new or refined applications
. development of data calibration methods
. testing new image processor algorithms
. satellite simulation studies