GRANT DRONE SOLUTIONS, LLC 

Barbara Grant is a 2021 Fellow Member of SPIE--The International Society for Optics and Photonics



Enhancing Agricultural Productivity By Collecting the Best Data Possible: Photonics MediaWebinar on Radiometric Accuracy and Commercial UAVs 7/7/2020

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SPIE Women in Optics 2019

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

is offered in UC Irvine's Optical Engineering and Optical Instrument Design Certificate Program. Signup for Winter, 2021 begins on Oct. 22, 2020. 





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.

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

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

How might disputed imagery, acquired during urban unrest, factor in to a suspect's guilt or innocence? This 2014 article on imagery analysis is still valid today. 

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."

A Tip for Technologists in the Gig Economy: Sometimes, Silence is Golden

Another new article on Linkedin.com by Barbara Grant

Tacos with Engineering on the Side:Professional Training, The Gig Economy, and Academia

New, on Linkedin.com by Barbara G. Grant

 Best Book Written by a Data Collector,

a Memoir by Barbara G. Grant,  Live on Amazon Kindle.

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.

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.