Using High-Resolution Imagery Acquired with an Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Urban Construction and Planning

In developing country, most of cities are expanding rapidly, and many projects of infrastructure construction are implementing. Hence, the remits of regional planning and monitoring are growing steadily. Planning data and status information need to made available in ever more up-to-date form and with high spatial resolution. Given the constraints on public funding and technique, real-time and high spatial resolution data is difficult to acquire with a user-defined frequency. However, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) technology provides potential for very high spatial resolution (<25 cm) mapping of relatively large areas at a user-defined re-survey frequency. According to our experience, in this paper, we would propose some application about UAVs for urban managers, to (a) serve city lay-out, (b) guide the development demolition, (b) realize dynamic monitoring, (c) calculate the percentage of greenery coverage, (d) construct three-dimensional city model, and so on. These projects and experiences proved that UAVs technology is feasible for Urban Construction and Planning.