This book showcases how new and emerging technologies like Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are trying to provide solutions to unresolved socio-economic and environmental problems. Unmanned vehicles can be classified into five different types according to their operation. These five types are unmanned ground vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned surface vehicles (operating on the surface of the water), unmanned underwater vehicles, and unmanned spacecraft. Unmanned vehicles can be guided remotely or function as autonomous vehicles. The technology has a wide range of uses including agriculture, industry, transport, communication, surveillance and environment applications. UAVs are widely used in precision agriculture; from monitoring the crops to crop damage assessment. This book explains the different methods in which they are used, providing step-by-step image processing and sample data. It also discusses how smart UAVs will provide unique opportunities for manufacturers to utilise new technological trends to overcome the current challenges of UAV applications. The book will be of great interest to researchers engaged in forest carbon measurement, road patrolling, plantation monitoring, crop yield estimation, crop damage assessment, terrain modelling, fertilizer control, and pest control.
Author(s): Ram Avtar, Teiji Watanabe
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 202
Tags: Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Agriculture
Front Matter ....Pages i-viii
Introduction (Ram Avtar, Teiji Watanabe)....Pages 1-6
Precision Agriculture and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) (Rahul Raj, Soumyashree Kar, Rohit Nandan, Adinarayana Jagarlapudi)....Pages 7-23
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-Based Hyperspectral Imaging System for Precision Agriculture and Forest Management (Junichi Kurihara, Tetsuro Ishida, Yukihiro Takahashi)....Pages 25-38
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for Fertilizer Management in Grassland of Hokkaido, Japan (Kanichiro Matsumura)....Pages 39-50
Corn Height Estimation Using UAV for Yield Prediction and Crop Monitoring (Flavio Furukawa, Kenji Maruyama, Youlia Kamei Saito, Masami Kaneko)....Pages 51-69
Supporting Oil Palm Replanting Programs Using UAV and GIS in Malaysia (Pegah Hashemvand Khiabani, Wataru Takeuchi)....Pages 71-84
Applications of UAVs in Plantation Health and Area Management in Malaysia (Ram Avtar, Stanley Anak Suab, Ali P. Yunus, Pankaj Kumar, Prashant K. Srivastava, Manish Ramaiah et al.)....Pages 85-100
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System (UAVS) Applications in Forestry and Plantation Operations: Experiences in Sabah and Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo (Stanley Anak Suab, Ram Avtar)....Pages 101-118
UAV-Based Structure from Motion – Multi-View Stereo (SfM-MVS): Mapping Cliff Face of Central Crater of Mt. Miharayama, Izu Oshima, Central Japan (Toshihiro Urayama, Tatsuro Chiba, Takumi Mochizuki, Syunsuke Miura, Shino Naruke, Hisashi Sasaki et al.)....Pages 119-129
Applications of UAV Remote Sensing to Topographic and Vegetation Surveys (Hiroyuki Obanawa, Hideaki Shibata)....Pages 131-142
The Role of Infrared Thermal Imaging in Road Patrolling Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Neha Sharma, A. S. Arora, Ajay Pal Singh, Jaspreet Singh)....Pages 143-157
Fusion and Enhancement Techniques for Processing of Multispectral Images (Ashwani Kumar Aggarwal)....Pages 159-175
Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for Urban Green Space Mapping in Urbanizing Indian Cities (Shruti Lahoti, Ashish Lahoti, Osamu Saito)....Pages 177-188
Responsibility and Accountability in the Governance of Civilian UAV for Crop Insurance Applications in India (Anjan Chamuah, Rajbeer Singh)....Pages 189-199
