Forest Firefighting Monitoring System Based on UAV Team and Remote Sensing

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 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.


Actuators ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunan Huang ◽  
Rodney Swee Huat Teo ◽  
Wenqi Liu

It is well-known that collision-free control is a crucial issue in the path planning of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In this paper, we explore the collision avoidance scheme in a multi-UAV system. The research is based on the concept of multi-UAV cooperation combined with information fusion. Utilizing the fused information, the velocity obstacle method is adopted to design a decentralized collision avoidance algorithm. Four case studies are presented for the demonstration of the effectiveness of the proposed method. The first two case studies are to verify if UAVs can avoid a static circular or polygonal shape obstacle. The third case is to verify if a UAV can handle a temporary communication failure. The fourth case is to verify if UAVs can avoid other moving UAVs and static obstacles. Finally, hardware-in-the-loop test is given to further illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.


Author(s):  
Panagiotis Partsinevelos ◽  
Zacharias Agioutantis ◽  
Achilleas Tripolitsiotis ◽  
Nathaniel Schaefer

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 17-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Салават Сулейманов ◽  
Salavat Suleymanov ◽  
Николай Логинов ◽  
Nikolay Loginov

The vast territory of Russia, occupied by agricultural lands, is difficult to control due to the lack of an undeveloped network of operational monitoring points, ground stations, including meteorological stations, lack of aviation support due to the high cost of maintaining staff, etc. In addition, due to various types of natural processes, there is a constant change in the boundaries of acreage, soil characteristics and vegetation conditions in different fields and from site to site. Abroad, the above mentioned problems are successfully solved due to the application of remote sensing data (RSD) of the Earth, obtained with the help of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The proceedings, obtained (UAV), can help both to solve complex tasks of managing agricultural territories, and in highly specialized areas.


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