Management and Publication of Drone Imagery for Long-Term Land Use Monitoring

Project Lead

Francisco Artigas

Problem

The post-processing and publication of drone imagery is a multi-step process and requires using several different technology platforms and tools. An online platform or desktop software consumes the raw imagery and creates various image products. The outputs from these platforms are processed with a Geographic Information System platform to overlay spatial attributes. Create a final product that is shared in a presentation or document or may be published over the web through web-facing services.

Ideally, any agency would like to have access to well-organized geospatial data in the future and easily search for and share this new "home-grown drone data'' within the agency and between agencies.

Objective

Address the problem by developing a solution for automated processing and long-term storage and retrieval of drone imagery and related image products.

Strategy

Build a data management and archival system that provide a long-term storage solution and discoverable archive database that holds the image products that accumulate over time, allowing the agency to track land use management changes and nature conservation efforts over time.

Activities

Identify internal data sources and build a suitable folder structure
Explore automated data transfer solutions among platforms (drone, DroneDeploy, AGO, and AWS)
Explore Amazon Web Services AWS) long and short-term data access options and select the most suitable for agency purposes
Transfer data to AWS
Set up credentials and security levels for access