UAV Planning to Optimize Efficiency of Image Stitching in Disaster Monitoring Using Smart-Eye Platform

A Smart-Eye platform is a technology that detects disasters (e.g., forest fire, flood) and responds them quickly. In the Smart-Eye, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is used to monitor the disasters in real time, where the UAV is equipped with a camera and multiple sensors, since it can go into hazards (i.e., unsafe areas to humans) cost-effectively. However, since the UAV has flight time of 10~25 minutes in general, it requires to optimize its pa-rameters for image stitching. In this paper, UAV planning is studied to increases the efficiency of image stitching, in terms of an altitude, a camera angle of view, and a velocity.