Analysis-Ready Data! ARD21 Workshop I chaired the session on New Payloads/Missions, all info online!

Two questions I'd ask UAV data providers in quantitative fields like precision ag: 1) How accurate is your data ? and 2) How has your data product been validated? Here's my ARD CALVAL Presentation on The Need for Radiometric Accuracy in UAV Data Collection,

Introduction to Radiometry:The Propagation and Measurement of Optical Radiant Energy

Was a great class with superb students in 2022! Offered in UC Irvine's Optical Engineering and Optical Instrument Design Certificate Program.



SPIE Women in Optics 2019



Review of Barbara Grant's latest book

 "Getting Started with UAV Imaging Systems: A Radiometric Guide" 

From the flagship publication of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, PE &RS, March 2017:

"This short but to the point book of 144 pages gives the reader exactly what the title suggests, a start and an overview of the details of collecting radiometric correctable data using imaging systems onboard UAV platforms." 

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Grant Drone Solutions offers

• Electro-optics consulting

• Imagery analysis

• Courses geared to needs of client

• Video concept development, story consulting, and narration

 

Here's what some former participants of Barbara's UC Irvine class have to say:

"I want to thank Barbara Grant for working so hard as the instructor,very patient, very informative, very challenging."

“The material was great, the class organization was the best, and you[r] teaching was very clear.”

“I entered the course with essential[ly] no knowledge in this area, and am leaving with a significant amount of knowledge to address work-related problems.”

“I greatly appreciated the clarity of the presentations and the way they kept returning to the basic principles to make sure they are applied correctly.   Also the clarity in both understanding and answering my questions in the live webinars."

"I really enjoyed your class and use what you taught on a regular basis."







Media

Check out my new media page for my latest project: When the Government Lied: Waco's Infrared Deception available on Vimeo on Demand.

DSIAC Journal Spring 2018

How the Military UAV Community Can Learn from the Commercial Drone World (and Vice Versa)

Inside Unmanned Systems June-July 2019 quotes Barbara Grant in "Defense Tech Makes its Way to Commercial Unmanned Systems."

Hitting New Heights

Barbara Grant extensively sourced in UC Irvine's DCE Magazine's Cover Feature on UAVs for Spring, 2018

 From SPIE Newsroom, 6 April 2017: Excerpt from Getting Started with UAV Imaging Systems: A Radiometric Guide is an effort to examine UAV imaging systems in light of their platform and applications contexts. 

Barbara was the invited speaker for the Long Range Imaging Conference held as part of SPIE's Defense and Commercial Sensing Symposium on Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at the Anaheim Convention Center. Her paper, "UAV imagery analysis: challenges and opportunities" can be accessed through the SPIE digital library.

The Infrared Investigator  repeated her performance on Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at Sunnyvale Public Library focusing on the need for standards in forensic imagery analysis to avoid the technical pitfalls of the Waco FLIR investigation.