The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for engineering geology applications
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The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for engineering geology applications Daniele Giordan 1 & Marc S. Adams 2 & Irene Aicardi 3,4 & Maria Alicandro 5 & Paolo Allasia 1 & Marco Baldo 1 & Pierluigi De Berardinis 5 & Donatella Dominici 5 & Danilo Godone 1 & Peter Hobbs 6 & Veronika Lechner 2 & Tomasz Niedzielski 7 & Marco Piras 3 & Marianna Rotilio 5 & Riccardo Salvini 8 & Valerio Segor 9 & Bernadette Sotier 2 & Fabrizio Troilo 10 Received: 28 October 2019 / Accepted: 25 February 2020 # The Author(s) 2020
Abstract This paper represents the result of the IAEG C35 Commission “Monitoring methods and approaches in engineering geology applications” workgroup aimed to describe a general overview of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and their potentiality in several engineering geology applications. The use of UAV has progressively increased in the last decade and nowadays started to be considered a standard research instrument for the acquisition of images and other information on demand over an area of interest. UAV represents a cheap and fast solution for the on-demand acquisition of detailed images of an area of interest and the creation of detailed 3D models and orthophoto. The use of these systems required a good background of data processing and a good drone pilot ability for the management of the flight mission in particular in a complex environment. Keywords UAV . Orthophoto . Debris flow . Drone . Earthquake . Engineering geology . Hydrology . Landslide . Structure from motion
Introduction This paper represents the result of the IAEG C35 Commission “Monitoring methods and approaches in engineering geology applications” workgroup. The work of the Commission is aimed to present a general overview of UAVs and their potentiality in the field of engineering geology. The use of UAV has progressively increased in the last decade and nowadays started to be considered a standard research instrument for * Daniele Giordan [email protected] 1
National Research Council, Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, Turin, Italy
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Department of Natural Hazards, Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW), Innsbruck, Austria
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Department of Environmental, Land and Infrastructure Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
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PoliTO Interdepartmental Centre for Service Robotics (PIC4Ser), Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
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Department of Civil, Construction-Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy
the acquisition of images and other information on demand over an area of interest. The possible field of activity of these systems has progressively expanded and now ranges from archaeological applications (Rinaudo et al. 2012; Nex and Remondino 2014; Nikolakopoulos et al. 2017b), to smart farming (Zhang and Kovacs 2012), to the management of natural hazards (Gomez and Purdie 2016; Giordan et al. 2018). It is possible to find different names or acronyms to describe the same object: an aerial drone. RPAS (remote pilot 6
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