Monitoring of Ice Conditions at Sea Using Micro Class Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Ūdens Transports un infrastruktūra: 14. starptautiskā konference 2012
Ilmars Lešinskis, Aleksandrs Urbahs, Aleksandrs Pavlovičs, Vladimirs Petrovs

This title describes an experiment, where the capability and potential of using the micro class Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for ice conditions recognizance has been probed practically. The experiment has been conducted with the means of UAV Krauklis, manufactured in Technical University of Riga and equipped with the electromotor, thus considerably minimizing the ecological impact, compared with these UAVs equipped with combustion propulsion. There are seemingly many ways and methods of acquiring the data and information about ice conditions at sea and coastal zone; however , in areas with the dynamic process of ice shifts and movements, there is necessity to have close to read time picture. Precise ice cover information can be of vital importance for ships at sea, especially when such situation has being aggravated. The outcome of experiment is practical proof, that micro-class UAV can be effectively implemented, thou with minor limitations, for local ice conditions reconnaissance and surveillance.


Keywords
Ice at sea, UAV, Gulf of Riga
Hyperlink
http://www.latja.lv/faili/files/ParLJA/LJA_konferences/2012.pdf#page=57

Lešinskis, I., Urbahs, A., Pavlovičs, A., Petrovs, V. Monitoring of Ice Conditions at Sea Using Micro Class Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. In: Ūdens Transports un infrastruktūra: 14. starptautiskā konference, Latvia, Riga, 26-27 April, 2012. Rīga: Latvijas Jūras Akadēmija, 2012, pp.57-63. ISSN 1691-3817.

Publication language
English (en)
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