Thermal Radiation Dynamics of Soil Surfaces with Unmanned Aerial Systems

Othón González, Mariano I. Lizarraga, Sertac Karaman, Joaquín Salas

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Abstract

Thermographies are a source of abundant and rapid information, valuable in precision agriculture tasks such as crop stress assessment, plant disease analysis, and soil moisture evaluation. Traditionally, practitioners obtain soil temperature directly from the ground or using satellites and other airborne methods, which are costly and have a low spatial and temporal resolution. In this paper, we introduce a method for short term tracking of thermal radiance inertia with the use of an unmanned aerial system (UAS). In our approach, we retro-project the spatial reconstruction obtained with structure from motion (SfM) to estimate the thermal radiation corresponding to three-dimensional structures. Then, we register the resulting orthomosaics using a pyramidal scheme. We use the first cloud of points as the fixed reference as new orthomosaics become available. Finally, we estimate the dynamics of the thermal radiation using the difference of the registered orthomosaic radiation intensity measurements.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPattern Recognition - 11th Mexican Conference, MCPR 2019, Proceedings
EditorsJesús Ariel Carrasco-Ochoa, José Francisco Martínez-Trinidad, José Arturo Olvera-López, Joaquín Salas
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages183-192
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783030210762
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Event11th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition, MCPR 2019 - Querétaro, Mexico
Duration: 26 Jun 201929 Jun 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11524 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference11th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition, MCPR 2019
Country/TerritoryMexico
CityQuerétaro
Period26/06/1929/06/19

Keywords

  • Remote sensing
  • Soil surface temperature
  • Thermographic imaging
  • Unmanned aerial systems

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