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UAV Low Altitude Marine Monitoring System
Jie-liang Huang, Wen-yu Cai
School of Electronics & Information
Hangzhou Dianzi University
Hangzhou, China
E-mail: jieliang_huang@, caiwy@
Abstract—As the human pays more and more attention to the
exploration of marine resources, the marine activities show
diversity. At the aspect of the exploration of some uncharted
and potentially dangerous waters or islands, the marine low
altitude surveillance UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) is
obviously very important. As a tool to obtain first-hand
information, UAV can take off near the monitored area.
Carrying with a high-definition camera, altimeter, GPS,
barometric pressure and humidity sensors, the UAV can
monitor the area for real-time, get the latitude and longitude of
specific landmarks, measure altitude and barometric pressure
and humidity and etc. Therefore we can have a general
understanding of the whole area to eliminate risk factors. In
addition, for different application environments, UAV can be
equipped with different monitoring devices, which makes the
application for more flexible and the areas for more diversity.
Keywords-low altitude; UAV; high-definition cameras;
altimeters; GPS; barometric pressure and humidity sensor
I. INTRODUCTION
With the national marine economy being proposed, the
low-altitude UAV remote sensing is applied to marine
monitoring and monitors marine emergencies, marine
disasters, marine environment dynamically with real-time
tracking, to provide real-time field data for the marine
forecasters for Rapid Alert and a scientific basis of decisions
and solution for the marine management. Regardless of the
protection of the marine disaster prevention and mitigation
services and the need for the development of national high-
tech, it is urgent to develop the real-time monitoring system
of the marine environment with quick response and
intensification and establish the report of efficient disaster
warning service on the basis of new technology.
Low-altitude UAV remote sensing marine monitoring as
an monitoring technology of important and in the initial stage,
on one hand, can do emergency response, without waiting for
satellite transit or the limit of flying height of traditional
aviation Airborne remote sensing; On the other hand, can
overcome the defects of the optical remote sensing
technology of traditional satellite in South cloudy and rainy
weather and will greatly enhance the ability of monitoring
Marine dynamically and urgently monitoring of disaster
prevention and maneuver reduction, which provides quality
services to the marine disaster prevention and mitigation, then
escorts for the economic development of regional marine.
This article will focus on UAV low altitude marine
monitoring system with Art-tech Diamond 2500 Glider
unmanned marine as the hardware platform, then describe the
consist, the key technology and its applications of system.
II. THE COMPOSITION OF SYSTEM
UAV low-altitude Marine monitoring system consists of
ground flight control system, aerial surveillance flight system,
UAV driving flying platform, wireless HD video transmission
system and so on.
A. Ground Flight Control System
Ground flight control systems is useful for the flight
control of UAV and the processing and display of related data,
including data transceiver module, debug interface, gesture
controller(as shown in Fig.1). By the composition of wireless
module, JTAG interface, the control handle, STM32
controller, PC terminal, it can be achieved on the UAV
attitude, altitude, speed, heading, route control, with remote
control and autonomous flight modes.
In order to improve the reliability of the flight control
system, the system uses the wireless transceiver module with
a high transmission rate and low error rate to ensure that the
control signals can be transmitted in real -time and received
correctly. Because digital connection being instead of analog,
which improves the accuracy of signal transmission and
increases the anti-jamming capability. The body has the
ability to be extended and flexible configuration, and some
typical system components may be changed according to the
needs of the missions.
Figure 1. Ground flight control system.
B. Aerial Surveillance Flight System
Aerial surveillance flight system is response to the control
signal of ground flight control system. It adjusts the flight of
the UAV in real-time and collects relevant data information
by a variety of sensors, which includes three parts of sensors,
actuators and flight controller (as shown in Fig.2). By the
composition of GPS module, battery voltage detection
module, altimeter, barometer and humidity detection module,
wireless module, attitude acquisition module, STM32
controllers, actuators, it can measure the location latitude and
longitude, altitude, barometric pressure and humidity, life
978-1-4799-7091-9/14 $31.00 © 2014 IEEE DOI 10.1109/WCSN.2014.19
2014 International Conference on Wireless Communication and Sensor Network