Forest drones for environmental sensing and nature conservation
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Protecting our nature and biodiversity is essential. For this purpose, remote sensing robotic platforms are increasingly explored to collect spatial and temporal data. However, there is still little attention on leveraging aerial robots to interact with trees for sample collection and targeted countermeasure deployment. In this study, we propose platforms and methodology that offer the use of aerial robots in the forests to conduct various tasks including leaf sample collection, visual sensing of forest topology and autonomous sensor placement. With the developed virtual reality (VR) interface, we show that remote environmental sensing, detection of plant pathogens, and sample collection are viable tasks that can be achieved by the proposed platforms. In this context, physical and visual sensing approaches as well as various aerial robots are introduced and discussed for forest applications.
Date Issued
2021-10-26
Date Acceptance
2021-10-01
Citation
2021 Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment (AIRPHARO), 2021, pp.1-8
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
1
End Page
8
Journal / Book Title
2021 Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment (AIRPHARO)
Copyright Statement
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Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9571033
Source
2021 Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment (AIRPHARO)
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2021-10-04
Finish Date
2021-10-05
Coverage Spatial
Biograd na Moru, Croatia
Date Publish Online
2021-10-26