Improving the efficiency of automatic identification of oil spills using unmanned aerial vehicles

Abstract

Improving the efficiency of automatic identification of oil spills using unmanned aerial vehicles

Safin M.A., Bikbulatov R.I., Pirogova A.M.

Incoming article date: 25.10.2022

Due to the intensive development of digital technologies, significant progress is be-ing observe in the creation of automated systems and technologies. One of the most pressing problems at the present stage of industrial development is the presence of cases of oil spills caused because of technological accidents and accidents. With advanced achievements in the field of digital technologies, it seems possible to au-tomate the process of identifying oil spills. The main purpose of the current article is to analyze the possibility of using unmanned aerial vehicles to perform automatic identification of oil spills. The author investigates this issue, and presents an option to increase the use of these systems based on the development of a special image-processing algorithm based on exponential accumulation and the variance method. The results of the work confirm the hypothesis of the effective use of unmanned aerial vehicles for automatic identification of oil spills.

Keywords: automation, unmanned aerial vehicle, oil spill, identification, image processing