UBRISTES: UAV-Based Building Rehabilitation with Visible and Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing

• Published in: Robot 2015: Second Iberian Robotics Conference pp. 245 - 256
• Main Authors: Carrio, Adrian, Pestana, Jesús, Sanchez-Lopez, Jose-Luis, Suarez-Fernandez, Ramon, Campoy, Pascual, Tendero, Ricardo, García-De-Viedma, María, González-Rodrigo, Beatriz, Bonatti, Javier, Rejas-Ayuga, Juan Gregorio, Martínez-Marín, Rubén, Marchamalo-Sacristán, Miguel
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2016
• Series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
• Subjects: Building inspection; Computer vision; Façade pathologies; Thermal loss; UAV
• ISBN: 9783319271453; 3319271458
• ISSN: 2194-5357; 2194-5365
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27146-0_19

Building inspection is a critical issue for designing rehabilitation projects, which are recently gaining importance for environmental and energy efficiency reasons. Image sensors on-board unmanned aerial vehicles are a powerful tool for building inspection, given the diversity and complexity of façades and materials, and mainly, their vertical disposition. The UBRISTES (UAV-based Building Rehabilitation with vISible and ThErmal infrared remote Sensing) system is proposed as an effective solution for façade inspection in urban areas, validating a method for the simultaneous acquisition of visible and thermal aerial imaging applied to the detection of the main types of façade anomalies/pathologies, and showcasing its possibilities using a first principles analysis. Two public buildings have been considered for evaluating the proposed system. UBRISTES is ready to use in building inspection and has been proved as a useful tool in the design of rehabilitation projects for inaccessible, complex building structures in the context of energy efficiency.