Forest Drones for Environmental Sensing and Nature Conservation

Basaran Bahadir Kocer; Boon Ho; Xuanhao Zhu; Peter Zheng; Andre Farinha; Feng Xiao; Brett Stephens; Fabian Wiesemuller; Lachlan Orr; Mirko Kovac

doi:10.1109/AIRPHARO52252.2021.9571033

Forest Drones for Environmental Sensing and Nature Conservation

Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Boon Ho, Xuanhao Zhu, Peter Zheng, Andre Farinha, Feng Xiao, Brett Stephens, Fabian Wiesemuller, Lachlan Orr, Mirko Kovac

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Abstract

Protecting our nature and biodiversity is essential. For this purpose, remote sensing robotic platforms are increasingly explored to collect spatial and temporal data. However, there is still little attention on leveraging aerial robots to interact with trees for sample collection and targeted countermeasure deployment. In this study, we propose platforms and methodology that offer the use of aerial robots in the forests to conduct various tasks including leaf sample collection, visual sensing of forest topology and autonomous sensor placement. With the developed virtual reality (VR) interface, we show that remote environmental sensing, detection of plant pathogens, and sample collection are viable tasks that can be achieved by the proposed platforms. In this context, physical and visual sensing approaches as well as various aerial robots are introduced and discussed for forest applications.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	AIRPHARO 2021 - 1st AIRPHARO Workshop on Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665433891
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/AIRPHARO52252.2021.9571033
Publication status	Published - Oct 2021
Event	1st AIRPHARO Workshop on Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment, AIRPHARO 2021 - Biograd na Moru, Croatia Duration: 4 Oct 2021 → 5 Oct 2021

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Name	AIRPHARO 2021 - 1st AIRPHARO Workshop on Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment

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Conference	1st AIRPHARO Workshop on Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment, AIRPHARO 2021
Country/Territory	Croatia
City	Biograd na Moru
Period	4/10/21 → 5/10/21

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Funding Information:
We sincerely thank Dr. Fatma Gözde C¸ilingir for her inspiring debates providing new insights on side effects of drone intrusion and sparking new ideas on extending this work into the animal-drone interaction domain as future work. We also thank former Aerial Robotics Lab members who have contributed to the work at various levels. We acknowledge the funding of EPSRC (award no. EP/R009953/1, EP/L016230/1 and EP/R026173/1), NERC (award no. NE/R012229/1), the EU H2020 AeroTwin project (grant ID 810321) and the Empa-Imperial research partnership. Mirko Kovac is supported by the Royal Society Wolfson fellowship (RSWF/R1/18003).

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Kocer, B. B., Ho, B., Zhu, X., Zheng, P., Farinha, A., Xiao, F., Stephens, B., Wiesemuller, F., Orr, L., & Kovac, M. (2021). Forest Drones for Environmental Sensing and Nature Conservation. In AIRPHARO 2021 - 1st AIRPHARO Workshop on Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment (AIRPHARO 2021 - 1st AIRPHARO Workshop on Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/AIRPHARO52252.2021.9571033

Kocer, Basaran Bahadir ; Ho, Boon ; Zhu, Xuanhao et al. / Forest Drones for Environmental Sensing and Nature Conservation. AIRPHARO 2021 - 1st AIRPHARO Workshop on Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021. (AIRPHARO 2021 - 1st AIRPHARO Workshop on Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment).

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