NH028-0005
Building Australia’s Scalable Drone Cloud

Monday, 14 December 2020
Poster
Jens F Klump1, Tim Brown2, Rohan Clarke3, Guru Siddeswara4, Steven Micklethwaite5, Beryl Morris6, Steve Quenette3, Tim Rawling7,8, Nathan Reid9, Robert Glasgow3, Susie Robinson10 and Australia's Scalable Drone Cloud Project Team, (1)CSIRO Mineral Resources, Perth, Australia, (2)Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, (3)Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, (4)University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia, (5)Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, (6)University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, (7)Parkville, Victoria, Australia, (8)AuScope, Melbourne, Australia, (9)CSIRO Mineral Resources, Perth, WA, Australia, (10)University of Adelaide, Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, Adelaide, Australia
Abstract:
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), commonly known as drones, provide sensing capabilities that address the critical scale-gap between ground- and satellite-based observations. Their versatility allows researchers to deliver near-real-time information for society.

A key to delivering on this is a capacity to enable researchers to collect, manage, process and share data from drone-borne sensors in a systematic way. Importantly, this should allow vertical integration across scales and horizontal integration across different UAV deployments. However, as an emerging technology, the best practice and standards are still developing.

Starting in early 2020, Australia’s Scalable Drone Cloud (ASDC) project aims to co-ordinate and standardise how scientists in earth and environmental and agricultural research manage, process and analyse drone-collected data by establishing best-practices and FAIR data principles as informed by five nationally significant research initiatives.

ASDC will coalesce and establish a cloud-native platform for experimental and scalable drone data management and analytics, driven by exemplar data management practices, data-processing pipelines, and search and discovery of drone data. The platform will integrate sensing capabilities with easy-to-use storage, processing, visualisation and data analysis tools (including computer vision / deep learning techniques) to establish a national ecosystem for drone data management.

The ASDC is a partnership of key National Collaborative Research Infrastructure (NCRIS) capabilities including the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF), Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), AuScope, the Monash Drone Discovery Platform, and CSIRO. ASDC is co-funded by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC).

This presentation outlines the roadmap and first proof-of-concept implementation of the ASDC.

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