Zivaro Geospatial Services - UAS Data Processing
- 1. UAS Data Processing and Fleet Management for Operational Efficiency
- 2. SPEAKERS Jeff Akers Director of Platform Solutions Nathan McEachen Chief Architect and Founder of TerraFrame
- 3. WHY ZIVARO? IT integrator to regulated market organizations. DOI HISTORY - GEOPLATFORM
- 4. THE DATA INTEGRATION CHALLENGE
- 5. UAS BENEFITS MANY SECTORS Drone Electrical Utility Oil & Gas Municipality Disaster Relief
- 6. THE UAS DATA MANAGEMENT PROBLEM Drone data often becomes siloed o Individual drone pilots capture imagery and store them on their individual laptops o Nobody else can find them or use them o As a result, more repeat drone flights are flown at the same locations than necessary
- 7. THE UAS DATA MANAGEMENT PROBLEM Workflows for image processing are not standardized o How were the images produced? o What tools and settings were used? o Which raw images were used? o When was the mission flown? o What sensors were used? Lack of standardized workflows results in poor traceability and repeatability
- 8. THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR SOLUTUION: UAS-DM The Unmanned Aerial Imagery (UAS-DM) Platform as a solution to: o Provide a central cloud-based repository for UAS data o Provide reliable upload capability in low bandwidth conditions o Provide image processing capabilities in the cloud o Automate and standardize image processing workflows o Make processed imagery and statistical outputs findable across organizations o Enable collaboration
- 9. THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR SOLUTUION: UAS-DM Provide reliable upload capability in low bandwidth conditions o Pilots sometimes need to fly missions in remote areas with unreliable internet connectivity o UAS-DM provides a reliable means to upload to the cloud Current State Optimized State
- 10. THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR SOLUTUION: UAS-DM Provide image processing capabilities in the cloud o Using serverless architecture where possible o Open Drone Mapper integration for automated orthorectification o Also produces a 3D point cloud modeling o Support for multispectral imagery in the next release o Using Amazon Workspaces for tasks that have not yet been migrated to a serverless architecture
- 11. THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR SOLUTUION: UAS-DM Capture metadata on image processing workflows o Standardizes how outputs are produced o Provides traceability into what was done, where, and by who Processing Output Raw Images Sensor Software Tools GCPs Pilot
- 12. THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR SOLUTUION: UAS-DM Make processed imagery and statistical outputs findable across organizations o Associate outputs with the sites they pertain to o Specify visibility of projects to other entities o Enable transparency into how outputs fit contextually into workflows o Make everything searchable: o Locations o Flights o Raw inputs o Processed outputs o Example: vegetation analysis for the National Park Services
- 13. THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR SOLUTUION: UAS-DM
- 14. KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS The use of knowledge graphs by the UAS-DM make it more adaptable to other environments that is implemented by a graph database. Types and hierarchies can be configured so that the solution can be adapted to other organizations Graph database is more scalable and performant for this kind of application Project Mission Collection Site Raw Imagery DEM Ortho Point Cloud Entity Type Hierarchy Type
- 15. IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIAL IMPACT Disease intervention, elimination, and disaster relief efforts can be improved by integrating recent UAS imagery into collaborative workflows Recently collected and processed UAS imagery can be integrated into mobile devices used by field workers to plan disease interventions in remote villages Disaster relief entities and municipalities can share imagery with each other
- 16. BUILDING A COMMUNITY UAS-DM is being released under an open source license We want to hear from you! o What are some of your challenges? oAre you interested in being a beta tester? Send us your email if you want to receive updates JAkers@Zivaro.com
- 17. THANK YOU!