Method and Procedures of Aerospace Thermal Tomography of Near-Surface Areas of the Earth

The article presents a method and procedures for developing aerospace monitoring tools for the underlying surface based on computer processing of data from optical-electronic means of unmanned aerial vehicles. The work considers a thermal model for the formation of a spatial distribution of a temperature field, an inverse problem of radiation thermal physics, and a problem of classifying objects based on multi-temporal multispectral images. The method and procedures for data processing have been tested in full-scale tests under various weather conditions for all seasons - several hundred flights of multi-rotor heavy-duty unmanned aerial vehicles equipped with optical-electronic means of remote monitoring have been conducted.