Publications by authors named "Damian Wierzbicki"

Processing single high-resolution satellite images may provide a lot of important information about the urban landscape or other applications related to the inventory of high-altitude objects. Unfortunately, the direct extraction of specific features from single satellite scenes can be difficult. However, the appropriate use of advanced processing methods based on deep learning algorithms allows us to obtain valuable information from these images.

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Constant monitoring of airports and aviation bases has become one of the priorities in today's strategic security. It results in the necessity to develop the potential of satellite Earth observation systems and to intensify the efforts to develop the technologies of processing SAR data, in particular in the aspect of detecting changes. The aim of this work is to develop a new algorithm based on the modified core REACTIV in the multitemporal detection of changes in radar satellite imagery.

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are able to guarantee very high spatial and temporal resolution and up-to-date information in order to ensure safety in the direct vicinity of the airport. The current dynamic growth of investment areas in large agglomerations, especially in the neighbourhood of airports, leads to the emergence of objects that may constitute a threat for air traffic. In order to ensure that the obtained spatial data are accurate, it is necessary to understand the detection of atypical aviation obstacles by means of their identification and classification.

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The paper presents the results of research on improving the accuracy of aircraft positioning using RTK-OTF (Real Time Kinematic-On The Fly) technique in air navigation. The paper shows a new solution of aircraft positioning for the application of the differential RTK-OTF technique in air navigation. In particular, a new mathematical model is presented which makes it possible to determine the resultant position of an aircraft based on the solution for the method of least squares in a stochastic process.

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The paper describes and presents a new calculation strategy for the determination of the aircraft's resultant position using the GPS (Global Positioning System) SPP (Single Point Positioning) code method. The paper developed a concept of using the weighted average model with the use of measuring weights to improve the quality of determination of the coordinates and accuracy of GPS SPP positioning. In this research, measurement weights were used as a function of the number of GPS satellites being tracked, and geometric PDOP (Position Dilution of Precision) coefficient.

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The aim of this paper is to present the problem of the implementation of the EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service) data for the processing of aircraft position determination. The main aim of the research is to develop a new computational strategy which might improve the performance of the EGNOS system in aviation, based on navigation solutions of an aircraft position, using several GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) onboard receivers. The results of an experimental test conducted by the Cessna 172 at EPDE (European Poland Deblin) (ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) code, N51°33.

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In recent years, many techniques of fusion of multi-sensors satellite images have been developed. This article focuses on examining and improvement the usability of pansharpened images for object detection, especially when fusing data with a high GSD ratio. A methodology to improve an interpretative ability of pansharpening results is based on pre-processing of the panchromatic image using Logarithmic-Laplace filtration.

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In the last few years, it has been possible to observe a considerable increase in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) equipped with compact digital cameras for environment mapping. The next stage in the development of photogrammetry from low altitudes was the development of the imagery data from UAV oblique images. Imagery data was obtained from side-facing directions.

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