Outback Robotics: Analysing Geo-Spatial Data from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Alistair Reid (NICTA)
NICTA SML SEMINARDATE: 2012-10-11
TIME: 11:15:00 - 12:00:00
LOCATION: NICTA - 7 London Circuit
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ABSTRACT:
UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) have historically been associated with military applications, but are increasingly addressing civilian problems such as disaster response and environmental surveillance. This talk focuses on an ecological monitoring UAV system developed at the ACFR, University of Sydney, for surveying natural environments in outback Australia. Our UAV system was designed for operating in remote areas without pre-existing infrastructure, and provides an effective, low cost solution to acquire very high resolution images. However, image geo-referencing relies on on-board navigation sensors, and the on-board camera is limited to RGB colour rather than the hyper-spectral bands typically used to monitor natural environments. Consequently, the data analysis for this project has involved addressing classification and mapping challenges, and has also provided an opportunity to investigate inter-modality data fusion of the UAV image data with other data sources, for which a Gaussian Process based approach will be discussed.
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