SC 1288 "Problems in Autonomous Vehicle Imaging Systems" Barbara Grant's newest 1/2 day short course, set to debut at SPIE's Photonics West, San Francisco, CA in February, 2020. Stay tuned to this space for details!

Barbara Grant in SPIE's 2019 Women in Optics Planner

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

in UC Irvine's Optical Engineering Certificate Program Spring Quarter 2019 has completed. Thank you so much to our students this year, you are all so memorable and I expect great things from you!



Review of Barbara Grant's latest book

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

• Imaging system selection based on mission requirements that benefit the goals of those who use/purchase drones
  

• Platform selection to correspond to the imaging goals of a project
  

• Development of test, measurement, and calibration plans for drone users, manufacturers, and platform integrators
  

• Radiometric calibration analysis
  

• Image data analysis

• Expert witness testimony

• UAV policy analysis and research
  

Grant Solutions, LLC, is the successor to Lines and Lights Technology, operated by Barbara Grant from 1995 to 2016. It represents the practical implementation of the prescriptions in her latest book,  "Getting Started with UAV Imaging Systems: A Radiometric Guide" published by SPIE Press in July 2016.

Check out Radiometry Case Study, : A Top-Level Systems Design Strategy , a free webinar designed to introduce my very practical radiometry course, taught online in the Spring Quarter through the UC Irvine Division of Continuing Education.

 

Here's what some former participants 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

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

Best Book Written by a Data Collector, a Memoir by Barbara G. Grant, now Live on Amazon Kindle.

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

DSIAC Journal Spring 2018

Hitting New Heights

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

How Can UAV Data Solve Imaging Problems?

by Barbara Grant, published on 12/11/2017 in Commercial UAV News.

SPIE Newsroom Defense and Security, August 2014:

"Imagery analysis: standards needed for the drone age"

This article argues for analysis standards. I'd expand upon that now, arguing for high-quality cameras, not always in use these days. 

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.

About Barbara G. Grant, M. S.

SPIE Senior Member and UC-Irvine Distinguished Instructor Barbara G. Grant received the M. S. in Optical Sciences from the University of Arizona in 1989, where she did her graduate research work in remote sensing imager calibration in the Remote Sensing Group. Read more here:



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

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