TY - GEN
T1 - A UAV based system for real time flash flood monitoring in desert environments using Lagrangian microsensors
AU - Abdelkader, Mohamed
AU - Shaqura, Mohammad
AU - Claudel, Christian G.
AU - Gueaieb, Wail
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
PY - 2013/5
Y1 - 2013/5
N2 - Floods are the most common natural disasters, causing thousands of casualties every year in the world. In particular, flash flood events are particularly deadly because of the short timescales on which they occur. Most casualties could be avoided with advance warning, for which real time monitoring is critical. While satellite-based high resolution weather forecasts can help predict floods to a certain extent, they are not reliable enough, as flood models depend on a large number of parameters that cannot be estimated beforehand. In this article, we present a novel flood sensing architecture to monitor large scale desert hydrological basins surrounding metropolitan areas, based on unmanned air vehicles. The system relies on Lagrangian (mobile) microsensors, that are released by a swarm of UAVs. A preliminary testbed implementing this technology is briefly described, and future research directions and problems are discussed. © 2013 IEEE.
AB - Floods are the most common natural disasters, causing thousands of casualties every year in the world. In particular, flash flood events are particularly deadly because of the short timescales on which they occur. Most casualties could be avoided with advance warning, for which real time monitoring is critical. While satellite-based high resolution weather forecasts can help predict floods to a certain extent, they are not reliable enough, as flood models depend on a large number of parameters that cannot be estimated beforehand. In this article, we present a novel flood sensing architecture to monitor large scale desert hydrological basins surrounding metropolitan areas, based on unmanned air vehicles. The system relies on Lagrangian (mobile) microsensors, that are released by a swarm of UAVs. A preliminary testbed implementing this technology is briefly described, and future research directions and problems are discussed. © 2013 IEEE.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/564709
UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6564670/
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84883116242&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564670
DO - 10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564670
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781479908172
SP - 25
EP - 34
BT - 2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
ER -