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UAS Applications Tim McCarthy, NUI Maynooth INFOMAR 9th Oct 2013

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About Us

National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG)

• Established in 2004 with an SFI PI Grant

• 4 X PIs coordinate various research projects & generated over €11million in funding (national

& international) over last six years

• Research Staff : 25 (Senior Researchers, post-docs & post-graduate level)

• Research Areas : GI Science, Earth Observation, Spatial Statistics & Analysis, Visualisation,

Machine Learning, Health Geoinformatics, Urban Dynamics, Mobility, Spatial Decision

Support

Falcon-8 Octocopter

UAS

Platform, Gnd Stn,

Telemetry

Operation

•Daylight

•Visual Line of Sight

o500/120/150/50

oClear of a/Field

& Control a/space

•3rd Party Liability

Basics

1.8kgAUW, 500g

payload, 2.4/5.8

@25GHz

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UAS Datasets I – Topographic/Building Surveys

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UAS Datasets I – Topographic/Building Surveys

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UAS Datasets I – Topographic/Building Surveys

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UAS Datasets I – Topographic/Building Surveys

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UAS Datasets II – Agriculture/Marine

Tetracam ADC Micro

90 gm – 3.2 Mpixel R-G-NIR

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UAS Datasets III – Thermal Imaging

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UAS Datasets III – Thermal Imaging

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UAS Datasets III – Thermal Imaging

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UAS Dataset IV – Coastal Defence

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GCP Comparison

High

Low

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UAS Flight Planning

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• Overlap

• % Along Track • % Across Track

• Time @ Waypoint

• 4s, 3s, 2s, 1s, 0s.

• Survey area – Iontas, North Campus

• Need - Terrain, Structures, Power • Don’t need – Vegetation, Pedestrians, Obstructions • 300 images – 12 batteries, 2 days

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Test Details – RSPSoc Paper

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Testing – XY Ortho and Z DSM

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Overlap and DSM

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Aerial

Surface

Sub-Surface

Potential Applications

• Sea-floor Ground Truthing

• Coastal Erosion

• Pipe & Cable laying

• Offshore Exploration

• Fisheries & Aquaculture

• Pollution Events

• Damage Assessment

• Promotion & Education

Application : Marine

WAMSAPs

Wide Area Monitoring using Smart Airborne Platforms (WAMSAPs)

•Autonomous platforms (UAS, Aerostats/Helikites)

•Real-time aerial feeds to ground devices, SmartPhones (Position, Measure in real

•24/7, all weather operation, SmartApp control

•Multispectral, environmental sensors

•Detect and report change

•Geofencing, Privacy by Design

•Non-persistent on skyline

•Automated mapping/monitoring

•Cover a few square km eg large installation/infrastructure, Marine Port or Coastline

•Low Carbon Footprint

•Collaborative, autonomous, no single point failure

•European GMES Cloud Platform Winners 2012 in Munich, Germany

•IAA approved to operate Aerostats/Helikites

Chief Aim

Design, build & test cloud-based spatial decision-support tools based on

EO & in-situ sensor data fusion for managing critical infrastructure in the

marine environment, illegal border crossing & government installations

Project Partners

Norway

Ireland (NUI Maynooth & iGeotec)

Germany

Deliverable

Operational on-line demonstrators comprising data discovery, fusion,

visualisation & decision-support toolsets for three scenarios:

•Oil-spill in marine environment (SmartBay/Shannon Oil-Spill

Response & BP)

•Illegal border crossing (Frontex)

•Avalanche disaster management (Austrian Tyrol local government)

Hazard Assessment

Vulnerability Analysis

Response Strategy

Action Plan

Viseo-Fusion – Demonstrator #1 Oil-Spill in Marine Environment Decision-making over-view

Oil-spill & Critical Marine Infrastructure Scenario

GPS EO

UAV

Sat

Com

HQ

Shore-line

Clean-up

Stricken

Vessel

Shore-line

Clean-up

Oil-spill

Context

• Oil-spill reported

• Response team assembled

• Collate infromation

• Assess the problem

• Decide on actions

• Execute the plan

Oil-Storage

Facility

EO Layer

•VHR

•SAR

GIS Layer

•Topography

•Land Use

In-situ

Regional

•Weather

•Traffic In-situ Locale

•Asign

•Ubipix

ClientLayer

•TBC

UAV Display

Aersotat Display

Common Overview Map Display

Web Processing Services

Layer Control

Event & Resource Management Control

Query Transformation Fusion Publication Update Alert

UI/UX Control

Map Tools Analysis Data Input Session

Alert#1

Alert#1, 02Nov2012: 10:12:10am, vehicle detected

Alert#2

Alert#2, 02Nov2012: 10:12:10am, human activity Resource #12 en-route Alert Resource #13

Op#321

Oil-spill & Critical Marine Infrastructure Scenario