Development of an UAV for water surface survey using video images

Author

Ruangwiset, Annop ; Higashino, Shin-Ichiro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., King Mongkut´s Univ. of Technol. Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand

fYear

2012

fDate

16-18 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

144

Lastpage

147

Abstract

Water is an important resource especially for agricultural country like Thailand. Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute of Thailand launched a project which introduces UAVs equipped with video cameras for improvement of the efficiency in water resource survey. This paper presents the UAV system that has been developed in this project. The flight data shows the capability of accurate automatic way-point flight. Histogram-based image segmentation was applied to the aerial image for the purpose of estimation of water surface area in order to show the usefulness of the UAV system. The estimation results are evaluated and discussed.

Keywords

autonomous aerial vehicles; image segmentation; mobile robots; robot vision; statistical analysis; video cameras; video signal processing; Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute; Thailand; UAV system; agricultural country; histogram-based image segmentation; unmanned aerial vehicle; video camera; video image; water resource survey; water surface area estimation; water surface survey; way-point flight; Cameras; Educational institutions; Estimation; Image segmentation; Reservoirs; Surface treatment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Integration (SII), 2012 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Fukuoka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1496-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SII.2012.6427349

Filename

6427349