FLIGHT PLANNING FOR AN UNMANNED AIRCRAFT GUIDED BY A ROTARY CAMERA WITH THE AIM OF OPTIMISING THE SEARCH FOR TARGETS

摘要

The detection and identification of targets by unmanned aircraft requires the use of cameras pointing downwards with a specific parameterisation and a defined altitude, in order to obtain the best detection performance. The flight plan for covering large geographic areas is generally defined independently of the detection. This creates situations where the detection is ineffective. We therefore propose a system and method where the flight plan is defined in part by data captured by a rotating camera covering the field of vision of the unmanned aircraft over 360°.