Geomorphological Analysis Using Unpiloted Aircraft Systems, Structure from Motion, and Deep Learning

no code implementations • 27 Sep 2019 • Zhiang Chen, Tyler R. Scott, Sarah Bearman, Harish Anand, Devin Keating, Chelsea Scott, J Ramon Arrowsmith, Jnaneshwar Das

We present a pipeline for geomorphological analysis that uses structure from motion (SfM) and deep learning on close-range aerial imagery to estimate spatial distributions of rock traits (size, roundness, and orientation) along a tectonic fault scarp.

Instance Segmentation Morphological Analysis +1