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Golf course owners and superintendents face increasingly stiff competition for patrons willing to pay the highest greens fees as well as scrutiny from those patrons, who demand the highest quality. Managing turf quality is a never ending battle against disease, pests and invasive species, as well as pressure to conserve water and limit overall environmental impact. Aerial imagery can provide turf managers and superintendents tools to help ensure overall uniformity as well as to diagnose and track problems before they are even visible to players.
Common uses of Blue Earth Imaging:
- Monitoring Turf Stress
- Poa Grass Mapping
- Pedestrain and Cart Traffic Effects
- Sprinkler Mapping
- Architectural Planning
- Tournament Planning
Color Imagery (RGB)
Color imagery is relatively easy to interpret without analysis since it looks like the kind of imagery that is commonly seen in viewers like Google maps. Many objects can be easily identified and measured with this information. The course below is currently going through the over-seeding process in the Palm Springs area.
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False Color Infrared (CIR) Imagery
False color infrared imagery makes use of light that is invisible to the human eye. Problems in photosynthesizing organisms (plants) can often be identified significantly earlier with infrared imagery than with visible light. CIR images will show healthy, vigorously growing plants as bright red. CIR images are the basis for the majority of analysis performed by Blue Earth Imaging.
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NDVI Processing
(Normalized Differential Vegetative Index)
NDVI is an image processing technique that uses false color Iifrared imagery to map turf stress. In addition, NDVI images can highlight differences in land cover and can even be used to detect water.
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HD NDVI Processing
HD NDVI imaging allows a user to focus in on growing plants only. This custom processing, unique to Blue Earth Imaging, causes plants to be highlighted, and non-living objects are suppressed.
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Change Detection
Blue Earth Imaging's frequent flights mean that imagery from one date can be compared to imagery from another date to see how the turf has changed over time. Change detection imagery allows a turf manager to quickly determine if the turf is growing uniformly or if problems exist that are causing the course to regress. The course below is showing significant changes due to the over-seeding process. As parts of the course are transitioned to winter turf, other portions are allowed to go dormant.
 
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Custom Processing
Blue Earth Imaging can perform many kinds of custom processing on your images as well. We can use data gathered in the field to generate custom image processing algorithms that can help isolate specific problems.
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