STEREO IMAGE ANALYSIS OF AERIAL IMAGES FROM TWO UAVS FOR WAVE MONITORING IN SURF ZONE
PDF

How to Cite

Mitobe, Y. (2020). STEREO IMAGE ANALYSIS OF AERIAL IMAGES FROM TWO UAVS FOR WAVE MONITORING IN SURF ZONE. Coastal Engineering Proceedings, (36v), waves.43. https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v36v.waves.43

Abstract

UAVs have been considered as one of the most powerful tools for coastal monitoring. 3D Topography of sandy beaches can be obtained with automatic flight of single UAV and 3D shape reconstruction technique. Furthermore, UAVs have been utilized for wave monitoring (Holman et al., 2017) as the video images or a series of still images from aerial cameras enable us to observe wave propagations from higher viewpoints. Although there are some proposed techniques to extract wave celerity and direction from the aerial images by UAV, there doesn't seem to be enough trials to obtain wave height, which is one of the most important parameters to consider coastal problems such as beach morphological changes. In this study, stereo image analysis for 3D shape reconstruction was applied to stereo image pairs by two UAVs as a test of the applicability of the existing stereo measurement technique and also possibility of 3D wave deformation measurement in field.

Recorded Presentation from the vICCE (YouTube Link): https://youtu.be/QZBAwj5RIi4
https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v36v.waves.43
PDF

References

Holman, Brodie and Spore (2017): Surf zone characterization using a small quadcopter: technical issues and procedures, IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, Vol.55, No.4.

Authors retain copyright and grant the Proceedings right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this Proceedings.