Remote Location of Caves by Thermal Cameras

We made extensive study of application of thermal cameras for remote location of caves. In addition to tens entrances of known caves we found also an entrance of a new unknown before cave near Karlukovo by using of thermal camera (fig.1). It was made at very unfavorable conditions.  We first successfully used thermal imaging from UAVs for remote location of new unknown caves. In late May 2019 we found three new unknown caves from an UAV with a thermal camera flying above Bosnek karst region, Bulgaria (fig.2).

This research was supported by BSF with DN14/4 grant to Y. Shopov.

Authors: Yavor Shopov 1,2,3, Ognian Ognianov1

1 Sofia University, Faculty of Physics, University center for Space Research and Technologies, yyshopov@yahoo.com;

2 Medical University of Sofia, ul. Zdrave 2, Sofia,

3 Space Science Centre for Research and Postgraduate Studies, Durban University of Technology, P. O. Box 1334, Durban 4000 Republic of South Africa

Section: Symposium on “Techniques for Remote Location of Unknown Underground Cavities”

Type: oral presentation

Short bio of the presenter: Yavor Shopov is president of UIS commission on Physical Chemistry and Hydrogeology of Karst, Leader of its International Programme on Remote Location of Caves and president of Bulgarian Federation of Speleology.

Оrganization: 1Sofia University, Faculty of Physics, University center for Space Research and Technologies, yyshopov@yahoo.com; 2 Medical University of Sofia, ul. Zdrave 2, Sofia, 3 Space Science Centre for Research and Postgraduate Studies, Durban University of Technology, P. O. Box 1334, Durban 4000 Republic of South Africa

References:

Shopov Y. (2013) Commission on Physical Chemistry and Hydrogeology of Karst Activity Report 2009-2013. UIS Bulletin Volume 56, N. 1, pp.18-19.

Shopov Y. (2017) Using thermal vision cameras for remote location of caves on Mars for immediate shelters for astronauts and storage chambers Journal of Aeronautics & Aerospace Engineering (J Aeronaut Aerospace Eng) May 2017, Volume 6, Issue 2, 64 http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2168-9792-C1-016

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