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Unmanned
Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Data Processing
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DEVELOPMENT OF A WEB-BASED UAV DATA
PROCESSING ENGINE
FOR MAPPING, MONITORING, AND EMERGENCY
RESPONSE APPLICATIONS
Monitoring and mapping applications
have evolved from an activity which is
only relevant to few industries and
government officials into an essential
service to unlimited number of
applications.Traditional mapping
technologies cannot meet the demand of
emerging mapping applications due to
limited financial and technical resources.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are
evolving as a platform that could meet the
applications needs and overcome
current mapping technologies
limitations.
This research project aims at developing a
web-based platform for flexible and
accessible UAV-based data processing,
visualization and visual analytics while
tackling the posed challenges by using
consumer-grade sensors and diversity of
potential system users/applications.
Fig. 1. Streamlined multi-sensor
geospatial data processing workflow
(click on image for larger version).
The
research outcome will be a light
streamlined software framework (Fig 1)
capable of accurate mapping and monitoring
that can be affordably/conveniently
accessed and used by data providers and
end users, who might not have a high level
of technical mapping expertise, in a
variety of applications including:
agriculture and forestry, environmental
monitoring, air quality, structural health
monitoring, pipelines and utilities
mapping, 3D mapping, landslides
monitoring, surveillance, wildlife
monitoring, and search+rescue
applications.
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Geomatics
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