Autonomous Lidar-Based Monitoring of Coastal Lagoon Entrances

Low Cost UAV-based Remote Sensing for Autonomous Wildlife Monitoring

In recent years, developments in unmanned aerial vehicles, lightweight on-board computers, and low-cost thermal imaging sensors offer a new opportunity for wildlife monitoring. In contrast with traditional methods now surveying endangered species to obtain population and location has become more cost-effective and least time-consuming. In this paper, a low-cost UAV-based remote sensing platform...

1 Solutions for a Complex Coastal Lagoon: Integrated Coastal Management and Venice Lagoon

Coastal Dynamics 2013 Paper No. LIDAR DATA FOR CLASSIFICATION AND SCIENTIFIC MONITORING IN COASTAL AREAS

In this paper we propose a method for the classification and mapping of habitats in Wadden Sea areas from lidar data. For this task, we derive crucial features from the 3D point cloud based on the geometry and intensity of the backscatter. The characteristics of three different classes (water, mudflat, mussel bed) are learned in a training step of a supervised classification approach. For this ...

Monitoring of water pollution and aquatic plants in the coastal lagoon environments using ALOS data

Our research goal is to monitor the water pollution and aquatic plants in the coastal lagoon environments using satellite data. This time, our past activities concerning some satellite study project and the preliminary result of ALOS/AVNIR-2 analysis in coastal lagoon such as Lakes Shinji and Nakaumi are introduced.

Monitoring of oxygen condition in the Ria Formosa coastal lagoon, Portugal.

Dissolved oxygen (DO) is one of the most important environmental variables of water quality, especially for marine life. Consequently, oxygen is one of the Chemical Quality Elements required for the implementation of European Union Water Framework Directive. This study uses the example of the Ria Formosa, a meso-tidal lagoon on the south coast of Portugal to demonstrate how monitoring of water ...