Unmanned Aerial Vehicles SensingMissions Specification using SensorML

Abstract: SensorML is a programming language which an user can write any type of sensorspecification and group of sensors as a database in XML form. This thesis is written with thetarget of showing SensorML specifications and clarifying it with an example of type of UAVand its camera sensors. Four type of UAV platforms are used as examples:- a helicopter- a blimp- a quad copter- and a aircraftand five types of camera sensors are given as examples of sensors that equip the UAVplatforms:- low light- HD camera- thermal camera- and micro analog cameraThese UAV platforms and sensors are combined to represent four different UAV systems inSensorML.By the end this database information will be used in a small application to show SensorMLprogramming validation.The usage of this utilization of the SensoML is to support the selection of the best fit inrelation to UAV platform and sensor device for a given mission specified using the language.The main goal of the thesis is to highlight this utility.