This paper presents an overview of ongoing research on small unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) for cooperative remote sensing for real-time water management and irrigation control. Small UAVs can carry embedded cameras with different wavelength bands, which are low-cost but have high spatial-resolution. These imagers mounted on UAVs can form a camera array to perform multispectral imaging with reconfigurable bands dependent on mission. Development of essential subsystems, such as the UAV platforms, embedded multispectral imagers, and image stitching and registration, is introduced together with real UAV flight test results of one typical example mission. This paper is organized as follows. The remote sensing requirements for water management and irrigation control are discussed in Section 2. Based on this, a band reconfigurable small UAV remote sensing system is proposed in Section 3. Then, coverage control of a single UAV and multiple UAVs with certain imagers is explained in detail Subsystem development of components such as UAV platform, embedded multispectral imager, image stitching and georeference capabilities are introduced in Section 4. Finally real field flight test results are shown in Section 5.
Band-reconfigurable multi-UAV-based cooperative remote sensing for real-time water management and distributed irrigation control
IFAC, IFAC World Congress, 17 ; 8068-8073
2008
6 Seiten, 8 Bilder, 13 Quellen
Conference paper
English
Afghanistan Irrigation System Assessment Using Remote Sensing
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