An Integrated Natural Disaster Observation System

Natural disaster observation technology has significant progress with the development of advanced satellite remote sensing (RS), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), and Internet of Things (IOT) technologies. In this paper, we discuss the architecture of an integrated natural disaster observation system using RS, UAVs, and IOT technologies. We concern three aspects: heterogeneous communication, air-ground cooperation mechanism, and data visualization using Geographic Information System (GIS). A Real-world system has been developed, and a series of simulation and experiments have been performed, and the proposed architecture provides better system scalability in complex environment.