Icaros and TeAx Deliver Drone Mapping Solution for Radiometric ThermalCapture Sensors

Icaros Inc., a provider of aerial imaging software, has announced that its drone image processing software can now process Thermal IR images from Radiometric microbolometer sensors.

Icaros’ OneButton family for drone image processing lets end users generate geospatially precise, fully orthorectified 2D maps and 3D models from frame-based aerial imaging systems. The OneButton software has been modified to work with data collected by drones. OneButton 5.1 enables users to adapt radiometric parameters to post-process ThermalCapture RAW readings into an accurately corrected thermal orthomosaic maps.

OneButton radiometric post-processing of FLIR Tau Core based TeAx ThermalCapture sensor data includes the ability to adjust the following parameters:

• Emissivity
• Atmospheric transmission and temperature
• Background temperature, and
• Temperature shift

These features enable TeAx ThermalCapture users to process imagery into high-fidelity thermal orthomosaics for industrial applications like Precision Agriculture, Heat Loss Detection, and Solar Panel Monitoring.

“When it comes to professional thermal mapping within the global commercial drone industry, one of the biggest challenges is to keep the radiometric information throughout whole image collection, processing and mapping process”, explains Stefan Thamke, CEO of TeAx Technology.

“Icaros and TeAx Technology formed a close international alliance, each bringing enormous knowledge and experience in their own field of expertise, and then worked passionately together to create a one-of-a-kind, professional, state-of-the-art, automated thermal mapping solution for the global commercial drone industry. I am not aware of any other solution on the market that is able to provide full radiometric 2D or 3D maps where all radiometric parameters can still be adapted”, Thamke says.

Pictures show an underground district heating pipeline. Inspection performed by Drone Systems, Denmark.“We have utilized our vast experience in large scale thermal mapping projects to produce the best and most complete photogrammetric software for thermal imagery on the market today”, said Tom Bosanko, CEO at Icaros.

Current users of OneButto Standard and Professional editions can download and install the latest version here.

OneButton creates a complete image processing workflow for aerial image data and can front-end both GIS and analytics workflows to enable customers to solve challenging problems related to everything from agriculture and forestry to utilities and city planning. It is highly customizable to meet the needs of specific vertical market applications.

OneButton automatically processes raw raster imagery with onboard GPS/IMU data to stitch the individual scenes together into seamless, color-balanced orthomosaics meeting photogrammetric precision and quality standards. Outputs include digital elevation models (DEMs), true color 3D point clouds, and multispectral mosaics – all ready for ingestion directly into GIS and analytics software environments.