Preliminary Standardization Study On Blimp Based Infrared Remote Sensing System For Urban Thermal Environment Research

With the rapid urbanization of China, the “heat island” phenomenon is affecting theurban environment tremendously. The UAV blimp has a number of advantages, such as, lowcost, high maneuverability, high precision infrared pictures, efficient fuel consumption,stationary flight, vertical take-offs and landings, low technique requirements and so on. So,the low-altitude UAV blimp infrared remote sensing system is becoming an irreplaceableremote sensing platform for urban thermal environment researches.The components of the UAV blimp are: the blimp, auto-pilot system, task system,communication system, ground control system. Each system concludes several subsystems,and they are all connected with each other. So, the UAV blimp is such a complicated systemthat the operation requires well-trained operators with abundant experiences. As for safety andmaneuverability, the UAV blimp system needs a whole system of operating rules andspecifications.Due to the huge volume, small load weight of the blimp, the low-altitude UAV blimpinfrared remote sensing system suffers a low resistance to bad weather conditions, which canlead to the distortion of the infrared pictures. So, the pictures taken by the UAV blimp shouldfirst be geometrically corrected before they go to urban thermal environment research.This paper aims at setting a series of standards and codes for the UAV blimp infraredremote sensing system’s hardware and operation requirements, from which the research ofUAV blimps related urban thermal environment research activities can benefit greatly.