Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for Monitoring Soil Erosion in Morocco

By S. d'Oleire-Oltmanns, I. Marzolff, K. Peter, J. Ries. Remote Sensing, 2012

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This article presents an environmental remote sensing application using a UAV that is specifically aimed at reducing the data gap between field scale and satellite scale in soil erosion monitoring in Morocco. A fixed-wing aircraft type Sirius I (MAVinci, Germany) equipped with a digital system camera (Panasonic) is employed. UAV surveys are conducted over different study sites with varying extents and flying heights in order to provide both very high resolution site-specific data and lower-resolution overviews, thus fully exploiting the large potential of the chosen UAV for multi-scale mapping purposes. Depending on the scale and area coverage, two different approaches for georeferencing are used, based on high-precision GCPs or the UAV’s log file with exterior orientation values respectively. The photogrammetric image processing enables the creation of Digital Terrain Models (DTMs) and ortho-image mosaics with very high resolution on a sub-decimetre level. The created data products were used for quantifying gully and badland erosion in 2D and 3D as well as for the analysis of the surrounding areas and landscape development for larger extents.

Subfields: Earth-Surface Processes, Environmental Engineering, Soil Science

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Internet-of-Things (IoT)-Based Smart Agriculture: Toward Making the Fields Talk (2019, background): “In [261] authors shared their experimental results using Sirius I, a fixed-wing aircraft, affixed with a Lumix GF1 digital camera by Panasonic to capture images from different sites to monitor the soil erosion issues in Morocco.”
Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for High-Resolution Reconstruction of Topography: The Structure from Motion Approach on Coastal Environments (2013, background): “[24] addressed issues related to vineyard and soil erosion, whilst Wallace et al [25] and Hunt et al.”
Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to capture micro-topography of Antarctic moss beds (2014, methodology): “…at a spatial resolution of 4 cm (Niethammer et al., 2012), and photogrammetric and SfM approaches have been used to generate subdecimetre resolution DSMs from overlapping aerial photography acquired by a fixed-wing UAV for the purpose of soil erosion monitoring (D’Oleire-Oltmanns et al., 2012).”
Structure from motion photogrammetry in physical geography (2016, methodology): “…measurement of features (Figure 5c), including the size of coastal boulders (Gienko and Terry, 2014), eroded gully volumes (Castillo et al., 2012; d’Oleire-Oltmanns et al., 2012; Frankl et al., 2015; Gómez-Gutiérrez et al., 2014) and aboveground forest biomass (Dandois and Ellis, 2013).”
On the Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Environmental Monitoring (2018, unknown): “…health [20,21]; (c) precision farming/agriculture [22–24]; (d) monitoring crop growth, and invasive species infestation [25,26]; (e) atmospheric observations [27]; (f) disaster mapping [28]; (g) soil erosion [29,30]; (h) mapping soil surface characteristics [31,32]; and (i) change detection [33].”
Current Progress and Future Prospects of Agriculture Technology: Gateway to Sustainable Agriculture (2021, background): “In addition, it can provide information about the type of seed and how it can be grown under particular soils and environments [148].”