Field Validation of an Advanced Autonomous Method of Exterior Dam Inspection Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

The maintenance of infrastructure is critical to the well-being of society. This work focuses on a novel method for inspecting the exterior of dams using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in an automated fashion. The UAVs are equipped with optical sensors capturing still images. The resulting images a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barrett, Benjamin Joseph
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2018
Subjects:
UAV
SfM
Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7463
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8463&context=etd