An orchard monitoring system and method based on unmanned aerial vehicle positioning shooting

• Main Authors: LUO SHAOMING, CHU XUAN, GAO SHENGJIE, ZHU YAOZONG, HOU CHAOJUN, ZHUANG JIAJUN, CHENG ZHISHANG, GUO QIWEI, MIAO AIMIN, TANG YU
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 09.04.2019
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS; MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEARDIMENSIONS; PHYSICS; TESTING

The invention relates to an orchard monitoring system and method based on unmanned aerial vehicle positioning shooting. The system comprises a man-machine, a fruit marking module and a fruit monitoring module; the unmanned aerial vehicle is provided with a camera module and a positioning module; The camera module is used for shooting an image containing a reference object and fruits in an orchardwhen the unmanned aerial vehicle flies; The positioning module is used for acquiring the position of the unmanned aerial vehicle when the camera shooting module shoots images; The fruit marking moduleis used for acquiring the position of the unmanned aerial vehicle from the positioning module, determining the fruit position on the image shot by the camera module, and taking the position of the unmanned aerial vehicle and the fruit position on the image as fruit marks; And the fruit monitoring module is used for acquiring the color of the fruit according to the color ratio of the reference object to the fruit on the im