OPTIMIZED POST-PROCESSING OF MULTIPLE UAV IMAGES FOR FORESTRY INSPECTIONS

Abstract. The following paper discusses possible optimized post-processing and data tracking of UAV imagery for forestry inspection. The survey took place in the National Natural Reserve Božidarske raselinistě – The Wetland of Božidar from 2015 till now. The purpose of this study is to provide with a suitable post-processing method of UAV images in a protected area with no necessity of human interaction with the species. The authors used UAV imagery from RGB and multispectral sensors. The focus of the paper is the post-processing which relies solely on open-source tools. The results of the paper are a script for automatic computation of vegetation indices, a script for canopy height model in a certain part of the mapped area a possible GIS solution for storing and tracking the data.