3.8 Proceedings Paper

LANDSLIDE SURVEYS USING LOW-COST UAV AND FOSS PHOTOGRAMMETRIC WORKFLOW

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COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B2-2022-493-2022

Keywords

Landslides; Survey; UAV; Photogrammetry; Low-cost; Open-source

Funding

  1. Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation within the project Geoinformatics and Earth Observation for Landslide Monitoring (Italian) [CUP D19C21000480001]
  2. Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam (MOST) (Vietnamese side) by the Bilateral Scientific Research project between Vietnam and Italy [NDT/IT/21/14]

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in academic and industry domains due to their versatility in data acquisition and positioning. This study utilized a low-cost consumer-grade UAV for monitoring an active landslide in Italy, using free and open-source software solutions. The results showed that the setup was effective in detecting and analyzing landslide hazards, providing valuable datasets for further research.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle have found their usage in various academic and industry domains, mainly due to the versatility of options that one aircraft can offer from onboard sensors for data acquisition and positioning, through different weight and size categories allowing different applications, including landslide mapping and surveying. Survey-grade UAVs can provide very precise flight and data but usually are very costly, and their use can be further bounded by many regulations. In this work, we have adopted a low-cost consumer-grade UAV to do multitemporal monitoring of an active landslide (Ruinon) in Northern Italy to evaluate the applicability of such setup in the landslide hazard domain. Moreover, for flight planning, photogrammetric reconstruction, and comparative analyses we have adopted free and open-source software solutions. The resulted dense point clouds and orthophotos yielded very satisfactory results from accuracies of few meters and even sub-meter level when reconstructed with field-surveyed ground control points. As a result, from the two surveys comparisons, July and October 2021, several displaced boulders and debris were detected where no significant reactivations were detected from our surveys. Such low-cost setup can be used also from non-professionals and in citizen science campaigns which can significantly contribute to additional landslide mapping and analyses by providing valuable datasets.

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