Technical Guidelines for Small Island Mapping with UAVs

Technical Guidelines for Small Island Mapping with UAVs

Image acquisition and surveying using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a very promising technology for Small Island Developing States (SIDS). UAVs can be a relatively low-cost data collection tool at the surveying scales often needed in small isl...

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Main Authors: World Bank, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:
UAV PLATFORM
IMAGERY
TAGGING IMAGES
GPS
MAPPING POVERTY
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/439981584943367620/Technical-Guidelines-for-Small-Island-Mapping-with-UAVs
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33455
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spelling okr-10986-334552021-05-25T09:33:33Z Technical Guidelines for Small Island Mapping with UAVs World Bank Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team UAV PLATFORM IMAGERY TAGGING IMAGES GPS MAPPING POVERTY DISASTER MANAGEMENT Image acquisition and surveying using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a very promising technology for Small Island Developing States (SIDS). UAVs can be a relatively low-cost data collection tool at the surveying scales often needed in small island contexts. Further, UAVs can capture thousands of images in a single flight and provide greater detail than satellites or even manned aircraft. The World Bank and Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) compiled this guidance note to document experience and best practices in the use and operation of UAVs for economic development in SIDS. Many of the lessons presented in this guidance note stem from the UAV4Resilience organized by the World Bank (World Bank 2017b) and from experiences with Pacific Drone Imagery Dashboard (PacDID) deployments in the Pacific islands (HOT 2016). This report is intended for local technological agencies of island nations that work to operationalize UAVs as a standard data collection tool. 2020-03-23T22:07:40Z 2020-03-23T22:07:40Z 2020-03-20 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/439981584943367620/Technical-Guidelines-for-Small-Island-Mapping-with-UAVs http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33455 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Poverty Study East Asia and Pacific Oceania
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topic UAV PLATFORM
IMAGERY
TAGGING IMAGES
GPS
MAPPING POVERTY
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
spellingShingle UAV PLATFORM
IMAGERY
TAGGING IMAGES
GPS
MAPPING POVERTY
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
World Bank
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Technical Guidelines for Small Island Mapping with UAVs
geographic_facet East Asia and Pacific
Oceania
description Image acquisition and surveying using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a very promising technology for Small Island Developing States (SIDS). UAVs can be a relatively low-cost data collection tool at the surveying scales often needed in small island contexts. Further, UAVs can capture thousands of images in a single flight and provide greater detail than satellites or even manned aircraft. The World Bank and Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) compiled this guidance note to document experience and best practices in the use and operation of UAVs for economic development in SIDS. Many of the lessons presented in this guidance note stem from the UAV4Resilience organized by the World Bank (World Bank 2017b) and from experiences with Pacific Drone Imagery Dashboard (PacDID) deployments in the Pacific islands (HOT 2016). This report is intended for local technological agencies of island nations that work to operationalize UAVs as a standard data collection tool.
format Report
author World Bank
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
author_facet World Bank
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
author_sort World Bank
title Technical Guidelines for Small Island Mapping with UAVs
title_short Technical Guidelines for Small Island Mapping with UAVs
title_full Technical Guidelines for Small Island Mapping with UAVs
title_fullStr Technical Guidelines for Small Island Mapping with UAVs
title_full_unstemmed Technical Guidelines for Small Island Mapping with UAVs
title_sort technical guidelines for small island mapping with uavs
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/439981584943367620/Technical-Guidelines-for-Small-Island-Mapping-with-UAVs
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33455
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