Abstract
In this paper, we present our modification experience of making a UAV watertight and floatable. Then we present several experiments on taking pictures considering ocean monitoring in the sea near our campus. The watertight experiments are done from our school’s pier. In these experiments, we repeated to start flying the UAV from the sea surface and fall it down into the water several times. Using this UAV, we tested several experiments to take pictures of wave dissipating blocks at MIHO Island where beach line erosion is critical and many blocks are arranged to prevent waves from washing the shore. We can see the shoreline very clearly from more than 200m height as a macro image and also we can inspect the blocks looking around its stacks as well as approaching near the sea surface where waves break and wave splash washes the UAV.
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