Vegetation Encroachment Detection of Power Lines with a Single 2D Camera

Abstract

The object of this project is to develop an imaging algorithm that can easily identify vegetation that can harm power lines. The overall procedure is divided into four stages. The first stage includes the acquisition of initial reference and scene image frames. The second stage step is to identify power lines and the third stage is to detect the level of encroached vegetation. If the vegetation is encroached above a certain level (height) and approaches near the save field (width), an alarm will be made to the operators residing at the base station to trim the endangering encroachments. The framework for the algorithm is divided into three main steps given below and shown in Figure… - Initialization by reference and scene image. - Identification of power lines, vegetation, SSand road path - Monitoring the level of encroached vegetation