Riverine Mapping - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University
Graphical depiction of the Riverine Mapping project
Riverine Mapping

This project is developing technology to map riverine environments from a low-flying rotorcraft. Challenges include dealing with varying appearance of the river and surrounding canopy, intermittent GPS and a highly constrained payload. We are developing self-supervised algorithms that can segment images from onboard cameras to determine the course of the river ahead, and we are developing devices and methods capable of mapping the shoreline.