Using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) in forestry imaging and assessment applications

A method includes controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle to fly over a forestry worksite and capture imagery information with an image capture component. The imagery information is used to generate a set of ground disturbance metrics, each having a value indicative of a measure of ground disturbance...

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Hauptverfasser:	Cherney, Mark J, Kahler, Andrew W, Lawler, Richard, Flood, Matthew J
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	AEROPLANES AGRICULTURE AIRCRAFT ANIMAL HUSBANDRY ARRANGEMENTS OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSIONTRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT AVIATION CALCULATING COMPUTING CONTROLLING COSMONAUTICS COUNTING CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPSOR SEAWEED EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT FISHING FLYING SUITS FORESTRY GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS HELICOPTERS HORTICULTURE HUMAN NECESSITIES HUNTING MEASURING MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS NAVIGATION PARACHUTES PERFORMING OPERATIONS PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY PHYSICS REGULATING SIGNALLING SURVEYING SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES TESTING TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS TRANSPORTING TRAPPING WATERING
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Zusammenfassung:	A method includes controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle to fly over a forestry worksite and capture imagery information with an image capture component. The imagery information is used to generate a set of ground disturbance metrics, each having a value indicative of a measure of ground disturbance at a different geographic location in the forestry worksite. Alternatively, the imagery information is used to generate a set of slope metrics or a firefighting metric. According to the ground disturbance, slope, and firefighting metrics, the method is used to generate an action signal, such as an action signal that controls movement of a mobile machine operating at the forestry worksite, among others.