Abstract:
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The present document and project has the purpose of developing a prevention and control system against desert locust pests based on UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) technology. Locust pests threaten agricultural resources that are the base of human and animal subsistence such as crops, grassland or mountains. It is one of the most critical and harmful pests since they have the capacity to travel by air up to 150 km per day in addition to crossing oceans such as the Atlantic. The aim of the project is to, starting from satellite images that represent great remote areas with difficult access, analyse which are the zones within all the affected countries in which the climatic conditions, lands and vegetation are optimal for the appearance of these insects using drones. To develop this new procedure, the quality of the data captured has been tested and an algorithm has been performed to process it. All the processes involved in the project depend on the previous step and therefore a linear organized path has been constructed. To implant this new methodology, repeated contact with FAO-UN (Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations) has been established. All the resources employed that encompass the development of the platforms at the technical and operational level have been provided by the company HEMAV, the operator no1 of drones in Spain. All the methodology is developed considering the technological limitations of underdeveloped countries and taking into account that FAO has established a meeting between their authorities and a team of Hemav in Oman to explain the new methodology, capture data and test the platforms in the desert. Finally, it can be confirmed that after the update of the state of the art and the analysis of results there is a considerable leap both at the technological level and at the level of human resources in the methods currently used and the proposed solution. A new line of work and business is opened to combat locust plagues. |