IIIE   20352
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERIA ELECTRICA "ALFREDO DESAGES"
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Coastal Monitoring and Feature Estimation with Small Format Cameras: Application to the Shoreline of Monte Hermoso, Argentina
Autor/es:
MARINA CIPOLLETTI, NATALIA REVOLLO, CLAUDIODELRIEUX Y GERARDO PERILLO
Lugar:
Jujuy, Argentina
Reunión:
Congreso; Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación,; 2009
Institución organizadora:
Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación
Resumen:
Image and video
processing of natural phenomena is one of the preferred non-invasive monitoring
techniques for environmental studies that is, however, limited through the high
cost of the required equipment and the limited access and precission of the
processing algorithms. In this work we propose a low cost methodology for
environmental studies using unexpensive off-the-shelf hardware and simple yet
powerful processing algorithms. The images are taken using small format RGB
cameras and processed in standard laptop equipments using open source libraries
and processing algorithms specifically developed in general purpose programming
languages. We applied this methodology to the coastal monitoring the shoreline
of Monte Hermoso, Argentina, aimed at establishing accurate measurements of
specific coastal features, for instance the coastal length. The experimental
results show that our proposed unsupervised processing algorithm obtains
results with a very high level of accuracy.