Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for mornitoring the construction progress of Ho Chi Minh City urban railway project

Abstract

This paper describes a new approach for monitoring the construction progress of the Urban Railway Construction Project “Metro line1 - Ben Thanh - Suoi Tien” by using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) to capture high resolution imagery at different stages of the project. The advantage of the AscTec Falcon 8 systems lies in their high flexibility and efficiency in capturing the surface of an area from a low flight altitude. In addition, further information such as orthoimages, elevation models and 3D objects can easily be processed by Pix4Dmapper software. The Ground Control Points (GCPs) and GIS data were used to compare the achieved accuracy of UAV method. This study shows the feasibility of using an UAV system for acquiring the high resolution aerial images and the new opportunities for managing construction progress over time.