ISSN 2070-7401 (Print), ISSN 2411-0280 (Online)
Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2023, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 209-221

Depth determination in the coastal water zone near the Crimean Peninsula with different seafloor types using unmanned aerial vehicle measurements

B.N. Novikov 1 , A.K. Kubryakov 1 , S.F. Fedorov 1 
1 Marine Hydrophysical Institute RAS, Sevastopol, Russia
Accepted: 12.04.2023
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2023-20-3-209-221
In this article, the bathymetry is reconstructed in the coastal shallow water zone of the Crimean Peninsula based on measurements from an optical camera that records a signal in three optical channels (RGB), which is installed on a commercial unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The method was applied separately for areas with different types of underlying bottom surface to assess the sensitivity of the method. For this purpose, the authors propose a classification method using the vegetation index for the marine environment VDVI, which made it possible to estimate the areas occupied by macrophytobenthos and sand. The results show that the algorithm depends weakly on the underlying surface and allows determining the depth for areas with a mixed bottom type. The proposed methods make it possible to determine the areal variability (several square kilometers in size) of the bottom topography with a high resolution (~10 cm) and allows monitoring of changes in the depth and underlying bottom surface characteristics during one UAV survey. In the future, such data will make it possible to clarify the existing ideas about the processes of formation and variability of the bottom topography and development of macrophytobenthos under the influence of various hydrodynamic processes.
Keywords: unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), bathymetry, Black Sea, macrophytobenthos, optical measurements, remote sensing methods
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