CopterCurrents
An Open Source Toolkit for Surface Current Field Measurements from Video Data
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Surface current field of the Elbe river at the city of Lauenburg, Germany. The current field was retrieved via the CopterCurrents toolbox from a 30 s video sequence acquired by a off the shelf quadcopter. To see the water surface click on circle and slide window to the left.
CopterCurrents is a MatLab based set of tools designed to extract water surface current fields (flow speeds) from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) video.
Citing:
CopterCurrents is free software published under the GNU GPLv3 license. When using CopterCurrents, please reference to the following article:
M. Streßer, R. Carrasco and J. Horstmann, "Video-Based Estimation of Surface Currents Using a Low-Cost Quadcopter," in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 14, no. 11, pp. 2027-2031, Nov. 2017. doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2017.2749120 View at publisher
The author's version of the manuscript is available via the Hereon library.