Research Article
Surf Zone Mapping Using Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery
Table 6
The details of cost, time, and labour needed for UAV and conventional methods.
| | | UAV | Conventional |
| | Instrument | UAV multirotor (($600) | Total Station ($8500) | | Positioning System (GCPs) | Topcon hyper ($5790) | - | | Processing Software | Pix4D ($495) | CDS ($200) | | Time | Data Capture – 6min 24s
Data processing – 30min (computer specifications- i7, 16GB RAM) | Traversing/tacheometry work – 2 hours
Data processing – 30min | | Labour | 1 person | 3 people | | Total (instruments, processing software, time and labour | Cost - $6885
Time – 36min 24s
Labour – 1 Person | Cost - $8700
Time – 2 hours and 30min
Labour – 3 persons |
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