A UAV based system for real time flash flood monitoring in desert environments using Lagrangian microsensors
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Conference PaperKAUST Department
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) DivisionDistributed Sensing Systems Laboratory (DSS)
Electrical Engineering Program
Mechanical Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Date
2013-05Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/564709
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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.Citation
Abdelkader, M., Shaqura, M., Claudel, C. G., & Gueaieb, W. (2013). A UAV based system for real time flash flood monitoring in desert environments using Lagrangian microsensors. 2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). doi:10.1109/icuas.2013.6564670Conference/Event name
2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2013ISBN
9781479908172ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564670