“BLIMP-CAM”: Aerial Video Observations of Marine Animals

Autonomous Aerial Navigation and Tracking of Marine Animals

In this paper, we describe the development of an independent and on-board visual servoing system which allows a computationally impoverished aerial vehicle to autonomously identify and track a moving surface target. Our image segmentation and target identification algorithms were developed with the specific task of monitoring whales at sea but could be adapted for other targets. Observing whale...

Design of a Blimp Based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Surveillance

This paper describes the design and development of Blimp Based Air Vehicle with the ability to perform vertical take-off and landing that can serve the purpose of surveillance in an area dangerous for humans. The design uses vectored thrusting to propel the blimp. Software is developed for visualizing the mechanical design of the blimp given its design parameters. The blimp is then developed by...

Detecting Marine Animals in Underwater Video: Let's Start with Salmon

Environmental Decision Support Systems (EDSS) constitute an important emerging technology for the management of marine environments and resources world-wide. A requirement for such systems is the provision of accurate and comprehensive data on marine animal populations and habitats. Underwater video is increasing in importance as a technology for collecting this data, but manual analysis of the...

Control of an Aerial Blimp Based on Visual

Vision based station keeping and docking for an aerial blimp