Assessment of PV Plant Monitoring System by Means of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Author(s):  
F. Grimaccia ◽  
S. Leva ◽  
A. Niccolai ◽  
G. Cantoro
Author(s):  
Maryna Zharikova ◽  
Vladimir Sherstjuk

In this chapter, the authors propose an approach to using a heterogeneous team of unmanned aerial vehicles and remote sensing techniques to perform tactical forest firefighting operations. The authors present the three-level architecture of the multi-UAV-based forest firefighting monitoring system; features of patrolling, confirming, and monitoring missions; as well as functions of UAV in such missions. The authors consider an infrastructure for the UAV ground support and equipment used for the UAVs control. The method of the data integration into a fire-spreading model in a real-time DSS for the forest fire response is proposed. The proposed approach has been tested with the multi-UAV team that included three drones for the patrol missions, one helicopter for the confirmation mission, and one octocopter for the monitoring mission. The performance of such multi-UAV team has been studied in the laboratory conditions. The result of the experiment has shown that the proposed approach provides required credibility and efficiency of fire prediction and response.


2020 ◽  
Vol 157 ◽  
pp. 434-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Navid Ali Khan ◽  
N.Z. Jhanjhi ◽  
Sarfraz Nawaz Brohi ◽  
Raja Sher Afgun Usmani ◽  
Anand Nayyar

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-14
Author(s):  
D. I. Bidolah

A green plantations monitoring is an important work, which includes regular monitoring of urban landscapes in order to identify negative timely changes and to prepare the informed decisions to prevent their degradation. In modern conditions, it is advisable to improve this process by using remote sensing methods, the materials of which are processed in geographic information systems, which allows to establish an automated monitoring system of green areas. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the feasibility of geo-information monitoring of urban landscapes using remote sensing methods, including unmanned aerial vehicles. To achieve this goal, structural schemes of the monitoring system organization to get the information about green plantation conditions are proposed, together with the possibilities of using orthophotoplans, which are obtained by remote sensing methods for the needs of regular study of urban landscapes. Repeated remote monitoring of the green plantations condition allows to detect the timely changes that have occurred with tree and shrub vegetation over a period in an automated mode. The use of remote sensing materials in this case can be used as a documentary basis to justify the implementation of measures for landscaping. Due to the expensive cost of high-resolution materials, we recommend to use in the process of urban landscape monitoring proposed approach with regular surveys of unmanned aerial vehicles for greenery facilities. On the basis of the conducted researches the multifunctional structure of the green plantings monitoring system is offered and carrying out of digital transformation of monitoring process of urban landscapes condition is recommended. These studies indicate the feasibility of introducing regular automated monitoring of green areas with the involvement of remote sensing methods, including using unmanned aerial vehicles.


2022 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 6141-6158
Author(s):  
Bander Alzahrani ◽  
Ahmed Barnawi ◽  
Azeem Irshad ◽  
Areej Alhothali ◽  
Reem Alotaibi ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-30
Author(s):  
Muhammad Rifqi Harahap ◽  

The facility’s licensee conducts environmental radiation monitoring in nuclear facilities to monitor radiation exposure in the facility’s vicinity. This activity is carried out also to monitor radiation release as a result of nuclear reactor operation. Aside from that, monitoring also works as a device to monitor radioactive release in a nuclear emergency. Therefore, the radiation monitoring system is crucial in nuclear utilization facilities to determine the number of radiation exposure to the surrounding environment. However, the existing stationary monitoring system has a risk of being unable to work if the system is down in case of natural disaster occurs. One way to mitigate this risk is to deploy an unmanned radiation monitoring system to monitor radiation exposure without putting personnel at risk. To define a suitable unmanned radiation monitoring system, identification of facilities and infrastructure required to design an unmanned radiation monitoring system for a research reactor in Indonesia is carried out. Facilities and infrastructure needed for unmanned radiation monitoring systems are unmanned aerial vehicles, radiation detector, control and communication module, navigation system, and software for the control system. These required facilities and infrastructure are then specified to determine the necessary specification for monitoring research reactor in Indonesia. The facilities’ required specifications are unmanned aerial vehicles with rotary-wing type, CdZnTe Detector, and GPS/GLONASS based navigation system. For infrastructure specification, control and communication module and software for the control system is not specified in how the system could meet the expected required performance rather than in detail. However, the system must provide and process measurement data in real-time to be presented in a radiation heatmap. Keywords: Identification, Radiation Monitoring, Unmanned


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