new B.Sc. thesis: UAV-based cemetery map

new B.Sc. thesis: UAV-based cemetery map

June 20, 2018

from left to right: Hendrik Flock, Thomas Eberth, Florian Baumgartner, Carina Kübert and Steven Hill, source: MainPost

Florian Baumgartner started his B.Sc. thesis titled “Object-oriented derivation of a digital cemetery plan from very high resolution aerial imagery – a case study for the municipality of Kürnach”. The aim of his thesis is to derive a high-resolution UAV-based graveyard map that can be used by the municipality for further planning within the cemetery administration.

Florian has already planned and performed an overflight with our Phantom 4 drone that took place in April this year. Watched by the mayor of Kürnach (Thomas Eberth), a representative of the AKDB (public agency developing IT solutions for municipal authorities, Hendrik Flock) our UAV expert (Steven Hill) and me (mentoring the thesis), the drone was flying at a height of 30m for 15 minutes and took more than 200 images.

 

The images will be used to derive a georeferenced orthophoto as well as a three-dimensional Digital Surface Model.
Florian will apply object-oriented segmentation and classification methods in order to develop a digital cemetery map. His thesis can be seen as a feasibility study within the process of the digitization of administrative tasks.

More information can be found here:
Best practice Tutorial for low budget UAV (in English and German)
report written by the municipality of Kürnach (in German only)
report written by AKDB (in German only)
report of the local daily newspaper MainPost (in German only)

follow us and share it on:

you may also like:

Successful MSc Defense by Christina Krause

Successful MSc Defense by Christina Krause

Congratulations to our EAGLE student Christina Krause, who successfully defended her MSc thesis titled "Active Learning and Parameter-Efficient Feature Adaptation for Cross-City Seismic Building Type Transfer Using DINOv2 and Street-Level Imagery" on November 12,...

Successful MSc Defense by Marlene Bauer

Successful MSc Defense by Marlene Bauer

Congratulations to our EAGLE student Marlene Bauer, who successfully defended her MSc thesis titled "Robust and Uncertainty-Aware Informal Settlement Mapping – Cross-City Generalisation Across Diverse Urban Morphologies Using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery in...

Help Us Understand Ticks: Join the MONID HABITRACK Study

Help Us Understand Ticks: Join the MONID HABITRACK Study

Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) are the most common tick-borne diseases in Germany, and they are becoming more relevant. Many infections go unnoticed because they cause mild symptoms or none at all. The MONID HABITRACK project, funded by the BMFTR,...

Setting Up for the 2nd EO4CAM Nutzerworkshop

Setting Up for the 2nd EO4CAM Nutzerworkshop

Right now our staff are busy hauling cases, mounting displays and testing every cable for the 2nd EO4CAM Nutzerworkshop, “Erdbeobachtung für die Klimaanpassung, behördliche Akteure in Bayern”. The doors open tomorrow, and the exhibition...

A dashboard for multi-UAS thermal data

A dashboard for multi-UAS thermal data

Mapping an active fire with various drones flying in parallel is hard enough. But getting the data processed, evaluated and turned into research datasets is a different story. The publication is on its way, and for now we’d like to share a dashboard by Antonio José...

bzgl. Art. 50 Verordnung (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act):

Überwiegend werden eigene originäre Texte und Bilder des EORC genutzt, jedoch sind einige Inhalte von blog post Texten teilweise mit Hilfe von KI überarbeitet worden und einige Bilder sind ganz mit KI erstellt, die jedoch deutlich keine photorealistische Darstellungen abbilden. Aussnahmen sind KI generierte fernerkundliche Datensätze, die explizit für Forschungszwecke mit KI erstellt wurden, hier wird aber durch den assoziierten Text der wissenschaftliche Grund der KI generierten Bilder erläutert.

Share This