A video geo-location and image enhancement tool for small unmanned air vehicles (UAVs)

Author

Gibbins, Danny ; Roberts, Philip ; Swierkowski, Leszek

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Adelaide Univ., SA, Australia

fYear

2004

fDate

14-17 Dec. 2004

Firstpage

469

Lastpage

473

Abstract

This paper describes recent work conducted in collaboration with DSTO Australia and Aerosonde to develop video-based geolocation (targeting) and real-time enhancement of ground features observed from a small unmanned air vehicle (UAV). Here a combination of low-cost GPS, video and attitude sensors are used to estimate the object ground position whilst a simple super-resolution technique is used to enhance images of the object of interest. The results of two recent trials of the developed algorithms are presented.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; aircraft control; attitude control; feature extraction; image enhancement; image resolution; image sensors; real-time systems; remote sensing; remotely operated vehicles; Aerosonde; DSTO Australia; UAV; attitude sensors; ground features; image enhancement tool; low-cost GPS; object ground position estimation; real-time enhancement; small unmanned air vehicles; super-resolution technique; targeting; video geolocation tool; video sensors; Australia; Cyclic redundancy check; Global Positioning System; Image enhancement; Magnetic sensors; Payloads; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Signal processing; Streaming media; Unmanned aerial vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the 2004

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8894-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSNIP.2004.1417506

Filename

1417506