Proposed tethered unmanned aerial system for the detection of pollution entering the Chesapeake Bay area

J. Goodman; J. McKay; W. Evans; S. Andrew Gadsden

doi:10.1117/12.2223368

17 May 2016 Proposed tethered unmanned aerial system for the detection of pollution entering the Chesapeake Bay area

J. Goodman, J. McKay, W. Evans, S. Andrew Gadsden

Proceedings Volume 9866, Autonomous Air and Ground Sensing Systems for Agricultural Optimization and Phenotyping; 98660P (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2223368
Event: SPIE Commercial + Scientific Sensing and Imaging, 2016, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

This paper is based on a proposed unmanned aerial system platform that is to be outfitted with high-resolution sensors. The proposed system is to be tethered to a moveable ground station, which may be a research vessel or some form of ground vehicle (e.g., car, truck, or rover). The sensors include, at a minimum: camera, infrared sensor, thermal, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) camera, global positioning system (GPS), and a light-based radar (LIDAR). The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of existing methods for pollution detection of failing septic systems, and to introduce the proposed system. Future work will look at the high-resolution data from the sensors and integrating the data through a process called information fusion. Typically, this process is done using the popular and well-published Kalman filter (or its nonlinear formulations, such as the extended Kalman filter). However, future work will look at using a new type of strategy based on variable structure estimation for the information fusion portion of the data processing. It is hypothesized that fusing data from the thermal and NDVI sensors will be more accurate and reliable for a multitude of applications, including the detection of pollution entering the Chesapeake Bay area.

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J. Goodman, J. McKay, W. Evans, and S. Andrew Gadsden "Proposed tethered unmanned aerial system for the detection of pollution entering the Chesapeake Bay area", Proc. SPIE 9866, Autonomous Air and Ground Sensing Systems for Agricultural Optimization and Phenotyping, 98660P (17 May 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2223368

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