EMERCE - 2024 - AMSTERDAM - CROSS-PLATFORM TRACKING WITH GOOGLE ANALYTICS.pptx
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for disaster relief, environmental monitoring and precision agriculture.
1. Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for disaster relief,
environmental monitoring and precision agriculture.
Philippines and Hawaii
2. “Prediction: By year 2020, UAS will emerge as the primary collection platform for
remotely sensed data.” USGS National UAS Office.
3. • Public Organizations should acquire a COA (Certificate of
Authorization) to fly UAV in designated areas.
• Crew must be properly trained and certified regarding
aviation regulations, medical etc.
• Federal Judge from the NTSB ruled against FAA in March
2014, regarding regulation of UAS.
• Congress has not passed any laws specifically regulating
UAS, but FAA has promised to pass a law regarding small
UAS sometime in 2015… or by 2025.
FAA Regulations?
4. Temporal Resolution
Hours DecadesDays Weeks Months Years
Spatial Resolution
.01 m 0.1 m 10 m 100 m 1000 m1 m
Cost
Free Low High Very HighModerate
1 m2
100 m2
1 km2
1,000 km2
Global10,000 m2
Max. Spatial Coverage
Gov’t Satellite
Commercial Sat.
Plot Data
Airborne RS
Fixed-wing UAV
Rotary wing UAV
18. Destroyed Levee
• Yolanda impact on
agriculture fields?
• Philippines facing a rice
shortage this year.
• 85,004 homes damaged in
Aklan province.
UAS team meets with Mayor
of Libacao.
19. • Leaves start to yellow around
edges and bunch together.
• Plant stops producing fruit.
• Disease can spread to nearby
plantings quickly.
• State lacks resources to contain
spread of virus.
BBTV Detection with UAS
20. 5 m 5 m 5 m
cm-resolution
point-and-shoot
camera imagery
(12/16/13)
sub-meter Digital
Globe imagery from
Google Earth
(1/21/13)
30-m Landsat 8
imagery
(6/17/13)
22. Healthy Banana Field Hamakua Springs,
Hawaii.
Suspected Infected Banana Patch,
Keaau, Hawaii.
Infected Keiki, remain stunted.
Aphids, spreading BBTV Virus.
Feature Detection with Visible RGB Imagery
23. Dr. Ryan Perroy taking field samples with spectral radiometer.
24.
25. • Rare plant survey, fence line assessment,
forest biomass estimation.
• University of Hawaii at Hilo FAA Certificate
of Authorization (COA) for Pu’uwa’awa’a
reserve.
• First University in the State of Hawaii to
receive a COA.
Environmental Monitoring in HETF
Pu’uwa’awa’a Makai Subunit
26. 90% of commercial UAV Companies World
Wide are small start ups, not big aerospace.
27. Please contact us for research related collaborations!
Website: www.spatial.hawaii.edu Ph: 808.932.7276