Development of a Software to Plan UAVs Stereoscopic Flight: An Application on Post Earthquake Scenario in L'Aquila City

On April 6, 2009, an earthquake hit the historic center of L’Aquila city, hundreds of victims, thousands of collapses. During the post-emergency a continuous monitoring of all building is crucial in order to guarantee that each structure at least will not worsen its stability until the final reconstruction is completed. So detailed surveying of all building is performed using different geomatic techniques as total stations, land photogrammetry, and laser scanners. Even if all these techniques can perfectly respond to many crucial post hazard needs, there are still many monitoring that cannot be completely carried on with traditional techniques. For these reasons, in this work, the advantages of using multirotor UAVs will be illustrated; UAVs can be fully remote controlled and so the geometry of photogrammetric image acquisition can be imposed.

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