Journal
SENSORS
Volume 17, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s17030446
Keywords
unmanned aerial vehicle; path planning; flood detection; feature selection; image processing; image segmentation; texture analysis
Funding
- National Research Program STAR [71/2013]
- National Research Program BRIDGE GRANT [PN-III-P2-2.1-BG-2016-0318]
- Data4Water
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Floods are natural disasters which cause the most economic damage at the global level. Therefore, flood monitoring and damage estimation are very important for the population, authorities and insurance companies. The paper proposes an original solution, based on a hybrid network and complex image processing, to this problem. As first novelty, a multilevel system, with two components, terrestrial and aerial, was proposed and designed by the authors as support for image acquisition from a delimited region. The terrestrial component contains a Ground Control Station, as a coordinator at distance, which communicates via the internet with more Ground Data Terminals, as a fixed nodes network for data acquisition and communication. The aerial component contains mobile nodesfixed wing type UAVs. In order to evaluate flood damage, two tasks must be accomplished by the network: area coverage and image processing. The second novelty of the paper consists of texture analysis in a deep neural network, taking into account new criteria for feature selection and patch classification. Color and spatial information extracted from chromatic co-occurrence matrix and mass fractal dimension were used as well. Finally, the experimental results in a real mission demonstrate the validity of the proposed methodologies and the performances of the algorithms.
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