Actual project cost
The actual cost of a project is defined in the toolkit as the cost to run the project without the start up or general maintenance cost.
Project planning
- Time to design and plan project
- Organise permits
- Logistics (transport, accommodation, food)
- Risk assessment
Field cost
- Travel; remote versus local; road, boat or air
- Equipment transport;
- Accommodation,
- Transport to and in the field; boat, car, helicopter; driver, pilot
- Equipment hire or purchase
- Field team
- Terrestrial, minum of two people
- Marine, minimum of two people plus boat handler
Image acquisition
- Spectral, spatial, radiometric, and temporal resolution
- Priority capture
- to reduce change of cloud cover
- to acquire imagery on certain data and location
Analysis cost of field and image data
Reporting cost
See example case study.