Timely and Quantitative Damage Assessment of Oyster Racks Using UAV Images

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Liang-Mao Lin¹  Jin Wan²  Kai-Siang Huang²  Ming-Der Yang³  Hui Ping Tsai³ 

[1] Department of Agriculture, Chiayi County Government, Taibao City, Taiwan;Department of Civil Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan;Innovation and Development Center of Sustainable Agriculture and the Department of Civil Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan;

关键词: Aquaculture;    damage assessment;    multiresolution segmentation;    oyster racks;    unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs);   

DOI  :  10.1109/JSTARS.2018.2839767

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Oyster racks identification relies on manual in situ assessment and often leads to a compensation dispute in aquacultural damage assessment. This study proposes an efficient classification method to identify oyster racks using unmanned aerial vehiclesw (UAVs) images. After image preprocessed by the morphology-based opening operation and mosaicing, the Canny edge detection algorithm, an edge line reparation algorithm, and the multiresolution segmentation techniques are applied to recognize the boundary of oyster racks and the number of oyster racks are further obtained. In this study, a case study was carried out in the District 23 of Dongshi fishing port on September 4, 2015 and October 5, 2015 to evaluate the influence of the Typhoon Dujuan. Based on the image identification, eight horizontal racks were destroyed by the storm surges and strong winds, but the raft-string racks were increased by 60, which were steered from neighbor districts. The damaged ratio of oyster racks was successfully identified and 38 racks were eligible for disaster relief. Comparing to the current manual in situ damage assessment process taking over one month, the proposed process provides a timely and quantitative assessment by efficiently identifying oyster racks on the UAV images within one week, which demonstrated that the proposed process is a promising way for the efficient damage assessment of oyster racks.

【 授权许可】

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