Coastal monitoring and feature estimation with small format cameras: application to the shoreline of Monte Hermoso, Argentina

Image and video processing of natural phenomena is one of the preferred non-invasive monitoring techniques for environmental studies that is, however, limited through the high cost of the required equipment and the limited access and precision of the processing algorithms. In this work we propose a low cost methodology for environmental studies using unexpensive off-the-shelf hardware and simple yet powerful processing algorithms. The images are taken using small format RGB cameras and processed in standard laptop equipments using open source libraries and processing algorithms specifically developed in general purpose programming languages. We applied this methodology to the coastal monitoring the shoreline of Monte Hermoso, Argentina, aimed at establishing accurate measurements of specific coastal features, for instance the coastal length. The experimental results show that our proposed unsupervised processing algorithm obtains results with a very high level of accuracy.VII Workshop Computación Gráfica, Imágenes y Visualización (WCGIV)Red de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI

Coastal monitoring and feature estimation with small format cameras: application to the shoreline of Monte Hermoso, Argentina

Image and video processing of natural phenomena is one of the preferred non-invasive monitoring techniques for environmental studies that is, however, limited through the high cost of the required equipment and the limited access and precision of the processing algorithms. In this work we propose a low cost methodology for environmental studies using unexpensive off-the-shelf hardware and simple yet powerful processing algorithms. The images are taken using small format RGB cameras and processed in standard laptop equipments using open source libraries and processing algorithms specifically developed in general purpose programming languages. We applied this methodology to the coastal monitoring the shoreline of Monte Hermoso, Argentina, aimed at establishing accurate measurements of specific coastal features, for instance the coastal length. The experimental results show that our proposed unsupervised processing algorithm obtains results with a very high level of accuracy.VII Workshop Computación Gráfica, Imágenes y Visualización (WCGIV)Red de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI

Computer Science and Technology Series : XV Argentine Congress of Computer Science. Selected papers

CACIC'09 was the fifteenth Congress in the CACIC series. It was organized by the School of Engineering of the National University of Jujuy. The Congress included 9 Workshops with 130 accepted papers, 1 main Conference, 4 invited tutorials, different meetings related with Computer Science Education (Professors, PhD students, Curricula) and an International School with 5 courses. CACIC 2009 was organized following the traditional Congress format, with 9 Workshops covering a diversity of dimensions of Computer Science Research. Each topic was supervised by a committee of three chairs of different Universities. The call for papers attracted a total of 267 submissions. An average of 2.7 review reports were collected for each paper, for a grand total of 720 review reports that involved about 300 different reviewers. A total of 130 full papers were accepted and 20 of them were selected for this book.Red de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI

Computer Science and Technology Series : XV Argentine Congress of Computer Science. Selected papers

CACIC'09 was the fifteenth Congress in the CACIC series. It was organized by the School of Engineering of the National University of Jujuy. The Congress included 9 Workshops with 130 accepted papers, 1 main Conference, 4 invited tutorials, different meetings related with Computer Science Education (Professors, PhD students, Curricula) and an International School with 5 courses. CACIC 2009 was organized following the traditional Congress format, with 9 Workshops covering a diversity of dimensions of Computer Science Research. Each topic was supervised by a committee of three chairs of different Universities. The call for papers attracted a total of 267 submissions. An average of 2.7 review reports were collected for each paper, for a grand total of 720 review reports that involved about 300 different reviewers. A total of 130 full papers were accepted and 20 of them were selected for this book.Red de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI