Authors
Keisuke Watanabe, Koshi Utsunomiya, Kazuho Mitsumura, Shun Takasaki
Corresponding Author
Keisuke Watanabe
Available Online 1 December 2017.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.2017.4.3.12How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Floatable UAV, environmental monitoring, coastal erosion, offshore structure monitoring
Abstract
In this paper, we present our modification experience of making a UAV watertight and floatable. Then we present several experiments on taking pictures considering ocean monitoring in the sea near our campus. The watertight experiments are done from our school’s pier. In these experiments, we repeated to start flying the UAV from the sea surface and fall it down into the water several times. Using this UAV, we tested several experiments to take pictures of wave dissipating blocks at MIHO Island where beach line erosion is critical and many blocks are arranged to prevent waves from washing the shore. We can see the shoreline very clearly from more than 200m height as a macro image and also we can inspect the blocks looking around its stacks as well as approaching near the sea surface where waves break and wave splash washes the UAV.

Copyright
© 2013, the Authors. Published by ALife Robotics Corp. Ltd.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).