In the quickly developing world of precision agriculture UAV remote sensing, there is a need for a greater understanding of winds effect on fixed wing aerial surveying, as this is missing from current literature. This paper presents a method to define and calculate flight times in a Boustrophedon aerial survey coverage path in wind, for a given convex polygon, at a given sweep angle. It is shown that there exists no easy way to define a sweep angle relative to the wind that minimises flight time. This method is validated by comparing the numerical simulated path and times with a number of surveys run in the high fidelity X-Plane simulator.


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    Title :

    Boustrophedon coverage path planning for UAV aerial surveys in wind


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    Publication date :

    2017-06-01


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    2247161 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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