Tracking of targets from aerial platforms is an important activity in several applications, especially surveillance. Knowledge of geolocation of these targets adds additional significant and useful information to the application. This paper determines the geolocation of a target being tracked from an aerial platform using the technique of image registration. Current approaches utilize a POS to ...

Visual context is important in object recognition and it is still an open problem in computer vision. Along with the advent of deep convolutional neural networks, using contextual information with such systems starts to receive attention in the literature. At the same time, aerial imagery is gaining momentum. While advances in deep learning make good progress in aerial image analysis, this prob...

The patches of the rice paddies are generally positioned by a traditional surveying method such as Plane Table and Total Station in Korea. This study has been undertaken to check whether TLS (Terrestrial Laser Scanner) could meet the accuracy standard, compare TLS survey data with those one of the new modern survey technologies such as digital aerial photogrammetry and RTK GPS. As a result, it ...

Mechanisms of aerial righting in juvenile chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar) were studied from hatching to 14 days-post-hatching (dph). Asymmetric movements of the wings were used from 1 to 8 dph to effect progressively more successful righting behaviour via body roll. Following 8 dph, wing motions transitioned to bilaterally symmetric flapping that yielded aerial righting via nose-down pitch,...

In this paper, we study a heterogeneous robot team composed of self-assembling robots and aerial robots that cooperate with each other to carry out global tasks. We introduce supervised morphogenesis – an approach in which aerial robots exploit their better view of the environment to detect tasks on the ground that require self-assembly, and perform on-board simulations to determine the morphol...

Aerial robotics has been an active area of research for several decades. It has been steadily maturing throughout the years leading to sophisticated auto-pilot systems for manned vehicles and fully autonomous flight and navigation systems for a range of military and civil applications. Nowadays, the emergence of modern embedded computing, sophisticated GPS positioning and the availability of lo...

This chapter discusses the challenges of automating surveillance and reconnaissance tasks for infra-red visual data obtained from aerial platforms. These problems have gained significant importance over the years, especially with the advent of lightweight and reliable imaging devices. Detection and tracking of objects of interest has traditionally been an area of interest in the computer vision...

Irrigated row-crop agriculture is contributing to declining groundwater in areas such as the Mississippi Delta region of eastern Arkansas. There is a need to move toward sustainable levels of groundwater withdrawal. Recent improvements in remote monitoring technologies such as wireless soil moisture sensors and unmanned aerial vehicles offer the potential for farmers to effectively practice sit...