The Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Remote Land Surveying and Mapping

B.M. Nyadar¹ , A.I. Solola² , P.l. Daudu³ , J. Yashi⁴

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.7 , Issue.3 , pp.23-29, Mar-2021

Online published on Mar 31, 2021

Copyright © B.M. Nyadar, A.I. Solola, P.l. Daudu, J. Yashi . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
The applications of unmanned Ariel Vehicle (UAV) are broad and consistent with earth surface observation which allows for ease of access to areas that are otherwise inaccessible and for the acquisition of spatial data for planning, development and other forms of analysis. This technology has been harnessed and integrated with Geographical Information Systems (GIS) application and it is currently being used by a widespread of professionals in areas of Engineering, Agriculture, Urban planning, mining, forest management, and archaeological survey among others. Because of this growing technology, this paper focused on demonstrating the use of the UAV to produce a clear presentation of the physical land surface of the study area to enable optimum visualization of the features on the ground that will inform proper decision making. This was achieved by accessing the project site area to verify land coordinate points gotten from a preliminary survey that was done in the area after which a UAV was used to capture images of the study area. The visualization derived from the UAV was compared to that of an archived visualization which put strongly the preference of the UAV as a better choice since it presents a near real-time depiction of the land surface. This paper further explores other ways of presenting aerial ground capture in 2D and 3D map presentations using GIS software such as surfer, Google earth and ArcGIS.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Survey, Mapping, GIS, Visualization, Geospatial, UAV

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