UAVs

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UAVs
By JWAN M. ALDOSKI Geospatial Information
Science Research Center (GISRC), Faculty of
Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400
UPM Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan. Malaysia.
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Flight Control Dynamics UAVs
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Outline

• Their history
• Basic flight controls
• Roll
• Pitch
• Their benefits
• Where they are headed
• Questions

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Their History

• The first UAV was developed in 1917 it was a
  crude motorized bomb
• They were developed for risky military operations
• They are still mainly used in the military, but
  they are also used in weather fields

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Benefits of UAVs

• Safety
• No pilot to be shot down
• Can fly into hurricanes or at low altitudes over
  the ocean
• Little damage when they crash due to their light
  weight
• Affordability
• 40 70 less than equivalent manned aircraft
• Advancement of science and controls

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The future of UAVs

• Continued use in military and weather
  applications
• Cargo and supplies transportation (5-8)
• Interplanetary exploration (10-15)
• Personal carrier (?)
• Civilian transportation (?)

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UAV Services For Oil Palm Plantation

• UAV system is a perfect solution which utilize
  various oil palm plantation applications
  .utilizing drones in oil palm plantation will
  help
• planters and manager to monitor and make decision
  on the their plantation. There are several
  benefits using UAV services for oil palm
  application
• Digital map derived from UAV images will become
  the tools in planning, cost and profits
  projection, road maintenance or re-designing and
  many more in years to come.
• Inventory of all plantations asset such as
  agriculture roads, total palm tree, culvert,
  ramp, office and etc.
• Monitoring land work status at site for
  Replanting Program
• Monitoring encroachment area
• Analysis of planted/unplanted area, road density,
  pest and diseases (visualization) and etc.
• Preparing annual budget for each plantation by
  counting the oil palm trees

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• a-Palm density survey andb-Mapping of individual
  palm tree,c-Infrastructure density survey and
  analysis,d-Plantation boundary and block
   boundary evaluation,e-Palm crop growth
  evaluation,f-Palm crop health evaluation,g-Plant
  ation yield production  evaluation,h-New
  plantation design and replanting
  design,I-Evaluation suitable land for
  plantation,K-Plantation  fertilizer
  recommendation advisory (including mapping).

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Tree Counting based on UAV Images
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Identifying Asset Location in Oil Palm Plantation
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• herefore, the fastest and high accuracy method of
  knowing the number of palm in each block in a
  plantation is to use remote sensing from
  satellite platform or  from UAV platform.
  However, in tropical areas like Malaysia, getting
  remote sensing data from satellite platform is
  quite unpredictable, due to cloud cover 60-80
  percent of the year. The alternative is to use
  remote sensing data from uav platform.
  GEOPRECISION TECH SDN BHD provides the following
  services for oil palm plantation      1.
  Capturing remote sensing data using UAV
  platform       2. Counting of oil palm tree
  based on remote sensing data from UAV
  platform.        3. Monitoring plantation
  hydrology, mapping plantation landuse          
    4. Mapping plantation topography (contour
  mapping)             5. Plantation design and
  field planning (for replanting and new
  plantation)

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Questions?

• THANK YOU