Justifying the Parameters for an Unmanned Aircraft Flight Missions of Multispectral Aerial Photography

Abstract

The paper shows the possibility of collecting multispectral and RGB data on the crop condition using an unmanned aircraft. The use of several programs for creating a flight mission is likely to lead to the inefficient use of the unmanned aircraft resources. (Research purpose) To calculate the parameters of aerial photography with multispectral and RGB cameras to enable the improved efficiency of unmanned aircraft resources. (Materials and methods) The paper studies the specifi cations of RGB and multispectral cameras installed on the drone. The research uses the results of scientifi c research on the calculation of aerial photography parameters such as longitudinal and transverse overlap, as well as the flight speed of an unmanned aircraft. (Results and discussion) It is established that the calculated values of the longitudinal and transverse overlap for the Zenmuse X4S RGB camera, as well as the unmanned aircraft fl ight speed during the joint aerial photography with a multispectral camera, make it possible to use standard mobile applications to create a flight mission. (Conclusions) It is determined that the obtained values guarantee the creation of high-quality digital maps. The parameters for the flight mission are calculated ensuring the effi cient exploitation of the unmanned aircraft resources, using simultaneously the Zenmuse X4S RGB camera and six multispectral cameras on board the unmanned aircraft.

Keywords

• digital agriculture
• unmanned aerial vehicle
• aerial photography
• multispectral camera
• flight mission
• image overlap.p