Emergency Response Using Volunteered Passenger Aircraft Remote Sensing Data: A Case Study on Flood Damage Mapping
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Guangdong Key Laboratory of Urban Informatics, School of Architecture & Urban Planning, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518000, China
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Key Laboratory of Urban Land Resources Monitoring and Simulation, Ministry of Land and Resources, Shenzhen 518000, China
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Shenzhen Urban Public Safety and Technology Institute, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Shenzhen 518000, China
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Sensors 2019, 19(19), 4163; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19194163
Received: 20 August 2019
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Revised: 20 September 2019
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Accepted: 24 September 2019
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Published: 25 September 2019
(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
Current satellite remote sensing data still have some inevitable defects, such as a low observing frequency, high cost and dense cloud cover, which limit the rapid response to ground changes and many potential applications. However, passenger aircraft may be an alternative remote sensing platform in emergency response due to the high revisit rate, dense coverage and low cost. This paper introduces a volunteered passenger aircraft remote sensing method (VPARS) for emergency response. It uses the images captured by the passenger volunteers during flight. Based on computer vision algorithms and geocoding procedures, these images can be processed into a mosaic orthoimage for rapid ground disaster mapping. Notable, due to the relatively low flight latitude, small clouds can be easily removed by stacking multi-angle tilt images in the VPARS method. A case study on the 2019 Guangdong flood monitoring validates these advantages. The frequent aircraft revisit time, intensive flight coverage, multi-angle images and low cost of the VPARS make it a potential way to complement traditional remote sensing methods in emergency response.
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Wang, C.; Ke, J.; Xiu, W.; Ye, K.; Li, Q. Emergency Response Using Volunteered Passenger Aircraft Remote Sensing Data: A Case Study on Flood Damage Mapping. Sensors 2019, 19, 4163. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19194163
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Wang C, Ke J, Xiu W, Ye K, Li Q. Emergency Response Using Volunteered Passenger Aircraft Remote Sensing Data: A Case Study on Flood Damage Mapping. Sensors. 2019; 19(19):4163. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19194163
Chicago/Turabian StyleWang, Chisheng, Junzhuo Ke, Wenqun Xiu, Kai Ye, and Qingquan Li. 2019. "Emergency Response Using Volunteered Passenger Aircraft Remote Sensing Data: A Case Study on Flood Damage Mapping" Sensors 19, no. 19: 4163. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19194163
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