JP2005149035A - Flood monitoring device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flood monitoring device which can precisely and adequately make a comprehensive flood determination, which is adapted to the geographical features of an object area, by processing the geographical image of the object area. <P>SOLUTION: The flood monitoring device is provided with; an image processing device 3 which inputs the geographical image of the object area picked up with an ITV camera 1 and processes it; a reference area setting and recording circuit 31 which sets a reference area on the inputted image; a monitoring area setting circuit 35 which sets a monitoring area on the inputted image; a texture computing circuit 33 which computes the texture characteristics quantity of the image; a characteristics quantity comparing circuit 34 which determines whether the difference between the texture characteristics quantity of the reference area and the texture characteristics quantity of the monitoring area is not larger than a prescribed value; and a flood area determination circuit 5 which determines water immersion in the object area in accordance with the determination operation of the characteristics quantity comparing circuit 34 by referring to map information from a map information accumulating means having the map information of the object area. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an inundation monitoring apparatus that monitors the inundation situation caused by tsunami, storm surge, flooding, water level rise by coastal inundation, and the like.

Conventionally, there has been a river information providing system as this type of device (see, for example, Patent Document 1). This was an observation system for observing meteorological and hydrological conditions, and a river information providing system capable of providing river information obtained by this observation system to a platform composed of information equipment.
There was also a tsunami damage estimation system for tsunamis (see, for example, Patent Document 2). According to this, a tsunami inundation model data and digital map data were prepared, a mesh model was created based on the digital map data, and inundation damage was estimated based on the tsunami inundation model data.

JP 2002-269656 A JP 2002-117475 A

  Conventional devices provide river flood information by installing water level measuring means inside and outside the bank where flooding is expected in advance. Alternatively, inundation is estimated based on simulation. For this purpose, the installation place of the water level measurement means is limited, and the situation of the place where the water level measurement means is not installed could not be grasped when extensive inundation occurred due to tsunami. In addition, since there is no means to automatically determine the flooded area for images of fixed or moving cameras, there is no means to monitor the flooded area, so the monitor must stick to the monitor and monitor multiple cameras simultaneously or by switching them. In addition, monitoring the inundation situation that changes every moment when a disaster occurs has a problem that places a heavy burden on the observer.

  The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-described problems, and inundation monitoring is capable of accurately and appropriately performing inundation determination according to the topography of the target area by processing the topographic image of the target area. An object is to provide an apparatus.

  In the inundation monitoring apparatus according to the present invention, image pattern comparison means for determining whether or not the image pattern in the reference area and the image pattern in the comparison area as a comparison target have a predetermined approximation property is provided. The inundation of the target area is determined according to the determination operation.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to provide an inundation monitoring apparatus capable of accurately and appropriately performing a global inundation determination in accordance with the topography of the target region by processing the topographic image of the target region.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
A first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration in the first embodiment. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an image processing operation for setting a monitoring area in the first embodiment.

In FIG. 1, an ITV camera 1 captures a terrain including a water surface portion such as a river and a non-water surface portion such as a road for a predetermined target region to obtain a terrain image. It is connected to the inundation monitoring apparatus main body WM by the network 2 to constitute a CCTV (Closed Circuit Circuit) system.
The inundation monitoring device main body WM is composed of an image image processing device 3 to which a terrain image taken by the ITV camera 1 is input, a map information storage device 4 and an inundation determination circuit 5, and the determination result is output to an external display 6. Is done.
The image processing apparatus 3 includes a reference area setting recording circuit 31 that constitutes a reference image storage unit that sets a reference area on the terrain image input to the image processing apparatus 3 and stores an image of the set reference area. A texture feature amount calculation circuit 33 that calculates a feature amount, a feature amount comparison circuit 34 that compares texture feature amounts, and sets a monitoring region on an image input to the image processing device 3 and stores an image of the set monitoring region And a monitoring area setting circuit 35 that constitutes the monitoring image storage means.
Here, a texture is defined as an image pattern that has microscopically repetitive patterns and is macroscopically uniform, and the texture feature amount is a texture feature. It can be said that this is a quantitative index indicating

Next, the operation will be described. FIG. 2 shows an image of one frame of video input from the ITV camera 1 to the image processing device 3.
FIG. 2A shows an image in a normal state where the river R is not flooded. The reference area S is set by the reference area setting recording circuit 31 and the image of the reference area S is accumulated in the image of the river R in FIG. 2A, and the reference area S is extracted from the image of the reference area S by the texture feature amount calculation circuit 33. A normalized density histogram is calculated and stored as the texture feature amount.
On the other hand, the monitoring area setting circuit 35 sets the monitoring area [A] MA and the monitoring area [B] MB on the road P as areas to be monitored for inundation, the respective images are accumulated, and the monitoring area [A] MA, A normalized density histogram is calculated and stored as a texture feature amount of the monitoring region [A] MA and the monitoring region [B] MB from the image of the monitoring region [B] MB by the texture feature amount calculation circuit 33.

FIG. 2B is an image when the river R is flooded and the road P is inundated. The image of FIG. 2B is input to the image processing apparatus 3, and the texture feature amount is calculated by the monitoring region setting circuit 35 and the texture feature amount calculation circuit 33 for the monitoring region [A] MA and the monitoring region [B] MB of the image. Is done.
These texture feature amounts and the texture feature amount of the image in the reference area S recorded in advance are input to the feature amount comparison means 34, and the feature amount comparison means 34 determines the texture feature amount and the reference of the image in the monitoring area [A] MA. Since the difference in the texture feature amount of the image in the area S is equal to or less than a certain value, it is detected that the monitoring area [A] MA is the same water surface as the river R.
As a result, the water level detection information in the monitoring area [A] MA is input from the image processing device 3 to the flooded area determination means 5 and the point where the monitoring area [A] MA is included from the map information storage means 4. The contour line information is read and input to the flooded area determination means 5. The inundation area determination means 5 determines from the contour information that the area including the monitoring area [A] MA is combined with the monitoring area [A] MA and the altitude is below the monitoring area [A] MA. To do. The determination result is sent to the external display 6 and the flooded area is displayed on the map of the target area.

In the above description, the case of comparing texture features has been explained. However, if the monitoring area corresponds to a structure or the like, and the change in the image is clear because the image of the structure that was visible is not visible, the texture feature is It is also possible to omit the comparison and process by template matching using an image of the structure as a template.
Here, the template matching is a method in which the image pattern of the target object is stored in advance in the calculation device as a model, and the similarity between the image patterns is calculated by comparing with the input image.

  In the above description, the texture feature amount of the reference region is calculated in advance by the reference region setting recording circuit 31 and the texture feature amount calculation circuit 33. However, by updating the texture feature amount of the reference region as needed, morning, noon, Inundation can be detected more accurately in response to changes in brightness of the image such as evening and night.

  In the above, the case where the flooded area is determined and displayed based on the contour line information has been described. However, since the height and angle of view of the camera 1 are known and the water surface can be regarded as the horizontal surface of the map, It is also possible to directly superimpose and display on the map by converting the water surface area obtained by image processing from the angle of view and projecting it to the horizontal plane.

  Although the case where there is no illumination has been described above, it is a matter of course that the environmental conditions can be made uniform to improve the accuracy of image processing by locally illuminating and photographing the reference area and the monitoring area in advance.

  According to the first embodiment of the present invention, the ITV including the ITV camera 1 that obtains a terrain image by photographing a terrain including a water surface portion such as a river and a non-water surface portion such as a road with respect to a target region, and the ITV An image processing device 3 for inputting and processing a topographic image photographed by a photographing means comprising a camera 1, and a reference region setting record for providing a reference region on a water surface portion on the input image inputted to the image processing device 3 A reference area setting means comprising a circuit 31, a monitoring area setting means comprising a monitoring area setting circuit 35 for setting a monitoring area as a comparison area on a non-water surface portion on the input image, and a texture for calculating a texture feature quantity of the image A texture calculation means comprising an arithmetic circuit 33, wherein the difference between the texture feature quantity of the reference area and the texture feature quantity of the monitoring area is less than a predetermined value And a feature amount comparison means including a feature amount comparison circuit 34 as an image pattern comparison means for determining whether or not the image pattern of the reference area and the image pattern of the monitoring area have a predetermined approximation. A flooded area determination circuit that refers to map information from a map information storage unit including a map information storage device 4 having map information of the target area and determines flooding of the target area in accordance with a determination operation of the feature amount comparison unit. Since the inundation area determination means consisting of 5 is provided, the inundation monitoring apparatus capable of accurately and appropriately performing the global inundation determination by processing the topographic image of the target area and comparing the texture features of the reference area and the monitoring area. Can be provided.

  Further, according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention, in the configuration of the preceding paragraph, as a texture feature amount, a normalized density histogram, a density histogram primary statistic such as variance, a density histogram secondary statistic, an image Since one of the frequency distributions is calculated by the texture calculation means including the texture calculation circuit 33, the image of the target area is processed, the normalized density histogram of the reference area and the monitoring area, and the primary density histogram such as the variance Providing an inundation monitoring device that can accurately and appropriately perform global inundation determination according to the terrain of the target area by comparing texture features based on any of statistics, secondary histogram of density histogram, and frequency distribution of images can do.

  Furthermore, according to the first embodiment of the present invention, the imaging means including the ITV camera 1 that captures a terrain including a water surface portion such as a river and a non-water surface portion such as a road with respect to a target region and obtains a terrain image, And an image processing device 3 for inputting and processing a topographic image photographed by the photographing means comprising the ITV camera 1, and a monitoring region including a predetermined structure on the input image inputted to the image processing device 3. Since the monitoring area setting means including the monitoring area setting circuit 35 to be set is provided and the inundation of the target area is determined by template matching using the structure in the monitoring area as a template, the topographic image of the target area is processed. Proper and appropriate global flood detection based on the topography of the target area by template matching using a structure as a template It is possible to provide a obtain flooding monitoring device.

Embodiment 2. FIG.
A first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration in the second embodiment. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an image processing operation without setting a monitoring area in the second embodiment.
In the second embodiment, the configuration other than the specific configuration described here has the same configuration contents as the configuration in the first embodiment described above, and exhibits the same operation. In the drawings, the same reference numerals indicate the same or corresponding parts.

In the first embodiment, the case where the monitoring area is set in advance has been described. It is also possible to mechanically divide the entire screen without setting the monitoring area and sequentially detect the water surface area compared with the reference area.
In the second embodiment, an inundation monitoring device that efficiently detects inundation without setting a monitoring region by taking a time difference will be described.

In FIG. 3, an ITV camera 1 captures a terrain including a water surface portion such as a river and a non-water surface portion such as a road for a predetermined target region to obtain a terrain image. The ITV camera 1 The network 2 is connected to the inundation monitoring apparatus main body WM.
The inundation monitoring device main body WM is composed of an image processing device 3, a map information storage device 4 and an inundation determination circuit 5 to which a terrain image taken by the ITV camera 1 is input, and the determination result is output to an external display 6. The
The image processing apparatus 3 includes a reference area setting recording circuit 31 that constitutes a reference image storage unit that sets a reference area on a terrain image input to the image processing apparatus 3 and stores an image of the set reference area. 3, a time difference calculation circuit 32 for calculating a difference between two frames at an arbitrary point in time of a video input to the image 3, a texture feature amount calculation circuit 33 for calculating a texture feature amount of an image, and a feature amount comparison for comparing texture feature amounts The circuit includes a time variation region detection circuit for detecting a time variation region from the processing results of the circuit and the time difference calculation means 32.

FIG. 4 is a frame image obtained by extracting video input to the image processing apparatus 3 at a certain time interval. The submerged area is enlarged in the order of FIG. 4 (a), FIG. 4 (b), and FIG. 4 (c).
When the image of FIG. 4B is input to the image processing apparatus 3, the time difference calculation means 32 performs a difference calculation between the image of FIG. 4A extracted previously and the image of FIG. 4B. The difference area [A] DA in FIG. 4B is calculated.
Similarly, when the difference calculation between the image in FIG. 4B and the image in FIG. 4C is performed when the image in FIG. 4C is input to the image processing apparatus 3, the difference in FIG. Region [B] DB is calculated.

  In this way, only when a difference area having a certain area or more is generated, the texture feature quantity of the area corresponding to the difference area of the image before the difference is calculated by the texture feature quantity calculation circuit 33 and recorded in advance as a reference area setting record. The comparison with the texture feature amount of the reference region set in the circuit 31 is performed by the feature amount comparison circuit 34, and when the difference of the texture feature amount is equal to or less than a predetermined value, the difference region is determined as the water surface. Image processing efficiency can be improved by reducing the amount.

  In the above, the normalized density histogram is used as the texture feature amount. However, by applying the primary statistics such as the variance of the density histogram, the secondary statistics, and the frequency distribution obtained by Fourier transforming the image. Similar processing can be performed.

  In the above description, the case of comparing texture features has been explained. However, if the difference area corresponds to a structure or the like, and the change in the image is clear, for example, the image of the structure that was visible cannot be seen, the texture feature amount It is also possible to omit the comparison and process by template matching using an image of the structure as a template.

  According to the second embodiment of the present invention, the ITV including the ITV camera 1 that captures a terrain including a water surface portion such as a river and a non-water surface portion such as a road in the target region and obtains a terrain image, and the ITV An image processing device 3 for inputting and processing a topographic image photographed by a photographing means comprising a camera 1, and a reference region setting recording circuit 31 for providing a reference region on the input image inputted to the image processing device 3. A reference area setting means, a time difference calculation means 32 comprising a time difference calculation circuit 32 for calculating a difference area by time difference between successive input images at a certain time interval, and a texture calculation circuit 33 for calculating a texture feature quantity of the image. Calculated by the time difference calculation means comprising the texture difference of the reference area and the time difference calculation circuit 32. As an image pattern comparison means for determining whether or not the difference between the texture features in the difference area is a predetermined value or less and determining whether the image pattern of the reference area and the image pattern of the difference area have a predetermined approximation Since the feature amount comparison means comprising the feature amount comparison circuit 34 is provided, the monitoring region is set by processing the topographic image of the target region and comparing the texture feature amount of the reference region and the texture feature amount of the difference region. In addition, it is possible to provide an inundation monitoring apparatus capable of accurately and appropriately performing inundation determination according to the topography of the target area.

  Further, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the imaging means comprising the ITV camera 1 that captures the terrain including the water surface part such as a river and the non-water surface part such as a road as the object to be photographed for the target region, A reference area setting recording circuit 31 for providing a reference area on an input image input to the image processing apparatus 3. A reference area setting means comprising: a time difference calculation means comprising a time difference calculation circuit 32 for calculating a difference area by time-differing successive input images input to the image processing device 3 at a certain time interval; and the time difference The target region is obtained by template matching using the structure of the difference region calculated by the time difference calculating means including the arithmetic circuit 32 as a template. Since the water is determined, the global inundation determination according to the topography of the target area is performed by template matching using the difference area structure calculated by the time difference calculation means by processing the topographic image of the target area. It is possible to provide an inundation monitoring device that can be performed accurately and appropriately.

Embodiment 3 FIG.
A third embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a configuration in the third embodiment. FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing an image processing operation based on a time difference in the third embodiment.
In the third embodiment, the configuration other than the specific configuration described here has the same configuration contents as those of the first embodiment or the second embodiment described above, and exhibits the same operation. . In the drawings, the same reference numerals indicate the same or corresponding parts.

  In the above embodiment, the case where the inundation area is detected based on the texture feature amount of the image of one frame has been described. However, since the water surface image has specific fluctuations due to waves, ripples, flows, etc., a time difference is taken. A case will be described in which fluctuations are extracted and an area with fluctuations peculiar to the water surface is detected as a flooded area.

In FIG. 5, an ITV camera 1 captures a terrain including a water surface portion such as a river and a non-water surface portion such as a road for a predetermined target region to obtain a terrain image. The ITV camera 1 The network 2 is connected to the inundation monitoring apparatus main body WM.
The inundation monitoring device main body WM is composed of an image processing device 3, a map information storage device 4 and an inundation determination circuit 5 to which a terrain image taken by the ITV camera 1 is input, and the determination result is output to an external display 6. The
The image processing apparatus 3 includes a reference area setting recording circuit 31 that constitutes a reference image storage unit that sets a reference area on a terrain image input to the image processing apparatus 3 and stores an image of the set reference area. 3 is composed of a time difference calculating means 32 for taking a difference between two frames at an arbitrary time point of an image inputted to the time 3, and a time changing area detecting means 36 for detecting a time changing area from the processing result of the time difference calculating means 32. .

In FIG. 6, the video input to the image processing device 3 is set to a capture period that is about one-fifth of the period of time fluctuation of the water surface, and the time difference calculation means 32 sets the current image and the previous one image The difference is taken.
FIG. 6A shows one frame image of the video input to the image processing apparatus 3. In the image of FIG. 6 (a), the image of the river R has a time variation peculiar to the water surface, while the images of the embankment B and the road P have changes due to sunlight, shadows, etc., but compared with the variation of the water surface. Because of the long cycle, the time difference can be identified in the above time difference, as shown in FIG.
The water surface can be more reliably extracted by excluding difference areas of a size equal to or smaller than a certain pixel such as noise and accumulating the difference results by the time fluctuation area detection means 36.

  When the river is flooded, as shown in FIG. 6C, the time difference area DT is enlarged, and the flooded area can be confirmed.

  A reference area is set in an area that is known to be the water surface of the river in advance, and the texture feature quantity of the reference area S in FIG. By comparing and confirming that the difference is equal to or less than a certain value, the water surface area can be detected with certainty.

  In setting the acquisition cycle, the acquisition cycle can be easily set by setting the difference value of the reference area to be a large value.

  According to the third embodiment of the present invention, the ITV including the ITV camera 1 that obtains a terrain image by photographing a terrain including a water surface portion such as a river and a non-water surface portion such as a road with respect to a target region, and the ITV An image processing device 3 for inputting and processing a topographic image photographed by a photographing means comprising a camera 1, and a continuous input image inputted to the image processing device 3 is used to detect a time variation peculiar to the water surface. A time difference calculation means comprising a time difference calculation circuit 32 for calculating a difference image due to a time fluctuation peculiar to the water surface by performing a time difference at a predetermined time interval shorter than the peculiar time fluctuation interval, and a time comprising the time difference calculation circuit 32 A time variation area comprising a time variation area detection circuit 36 for detecting a time variation area as a difference area from the difference image calculated by the difference calculation means. Since there is provided a knowledge unit, it is possible to provide a flooded monitoring device capable accurately and appropriately global inundation determined in line with the terrain of the target region by treating the terrain image of the region of interest.

Embodiment 4 FIG.
A fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram for detection using the polarizing plate in the fourth embodiment.
In the fourth embodiment, the configuration other than the specific configuration described here has the same configuration contents as any of the first to third embodiments described above, and has the same operation. Is. In the drawings, the same reference numerals indicate the same or corresponding parts.

In the first to third embodiments described above, the case where the flooded area is detected by the image of the normal visible camera has been described. However, in the fourth embodiment, the detection is performed using the polarization characteristics of the water surface. Is described.
As shown in FIG. 7A, the image of the camera 1 is set so that the angle formed by the optical axis CA of the ITV camera 1 and the normal WV of the horizontal plane is the same as or close to the Brewster angle (about 53 °). The angle is set, and an image is photographed through the polarizing plate 11 installed so that the polarization axis is parallel to the plane (incident surface) including the optical axis CA of the camera 1 and the horizontal normal WW.

  With such a configuration, the reflection of the water surface portion is reduced, and the water surface portion is darkly imaged as a dark region DK as shown in FIG. Can be improved.

  According to the fourth embodiment of the present invention, in any configuration from the first to third embodiments, a terrain including a water surface portion such as a river and a non-water surface portion such as a road in the target region is taken as an imaging target. An imaging unit comprising an ITV camera 1 that captures a terrain image and an image processing device 3 that inputs and processes the terrain image captured by the imaging unit comprising the ITV camera 1. The angle of the photographing means comprising the ITV camera 1 is set so that the angle formed by the optical axis CA of the means and the normal WV of the horizontal plane is close to the Brewster angle, and the light of the photographing means comprising the ITV camera 1 is set. A water surface portion is obtained by taking a picture through a polarizing means including a polarizing plate 11 installed so that a polarization axis is parallel to a plane (incident surface) including an axis CA and a normal line WV of the horizontal plane. Since the distinction is improved by making it possible to clearly distinguish the brightness and darkness of the other parts, global inundation judgment according to the topography of the target area can be performed by processing the topographic image of the target area It is possible to provide an inundation monitoring device that can be accurately and appropriately performed and improve accuracy.

Embodiment 5 FIG.
A fifth embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing a configuration in the fifth embodiment. FIG. 9 is an explanatory view showing the operation of the image processing of the infrared camera image in the fifth embodiment.
In the fifth embodiment, the configuration other than the specific configuration described here has the same configuration contents as any of the first to fourth embodiments described above, and exhibits the same operation. Is. In the drawings, the same reference numerals indicate the same or corresponding parts.

In FIG. 8, an infrared camera 10 captures a terrain including a water surface portion such as a river and a non-water surface portion such as a road for a predetermined target region and obtains a terrain image. The network 2 is connected to the inundation monitoring apparatus main body WM.
The inundation monitoring device main body WM includes an image image processing device 3 to which a terrain image taken by the infrared camera 10 is input, a map information storage device 4 and an inundation determination circuit 5, and the determination result is output to an external display 6. Is done.
The image processing apparatus 3 sets a reference area on an image input to the image processing apparatus 3 and stores a reference area setting recording circuit 31 that constitutes a reference image storage unit that stores an image of the set reference area. A texture feature amount calculation circuit 33 for calculating the amount, a feature amount comparison circuit 34 for comparing the texture feature amount, and a monitoring region is set on the image input to the image processing apparatus 3 and an image of the set monitoring region is accumulated. The monitoring area setting circuit 35 is a monitoring image storage unit.

Below, the case where a flooded area | region is detected using an infrared camera is described.
As shown in FIG. 9A, there are various materials such as concrete, asphalt, earth and sand, and the density of the infrared image is not uniform because there are temperature differences and emissivity differences depending on the materials. On the other hand, the water surface has a small temperature difference, constant emissivity, and uniform infrared image density. Even when the river is flooded, the difference area [A] DA, that is, the flooded area [A] in FIG. 9B and the difference area [B] DB, that is, the flooded area [B] in FIG. As a result, the density of the infrared image changes uniformly.
The water surface area of the infrared image is set in advance as the reference area S by the reference area setting recording circuit 31, the infrared image is input to the image processing device 3, and the texture feature quantity calculation circuit 33 calculates the texture feature quantity. The feature amount comparison circuit 34 detects the region where the difference from the feature amount of the reference region is a certain value or less as the water surface, so that inundation monitoring can be performed even in a place where there is no illumination at night.

  In the configuration of FIG. 8, the case where the infrared camera is applied to the first embodiment having the configuration shown in FIG. 1 has been described. However, in any of the configurations of the second to fourth embodiments, the ITV camera 1 Instead, the configuration of the infrared camera 10 according to the fifth embodiment can be applied to any one of the second to fourth embodiments by using the infrared camera 10.

  According to the fifth embodiment of the present invention, an infrared camera 10 that captures a target area as a subject to be photographed on a terrain including a water surface portion such as a river and a non-water surface portion such as a road, and the infrared camera 10 captures the terrain image. A reference area setting means comprising a reference area setting recording circuit 31 for providing a reference area S on the infrared image input to the image processing apparatus 3. Texture calculation means comprising a texture calculation circuit 33 for calculating the texture feature amount of the infrared image, and a feature amount comparison for determining whether the difference between the texture feature amount of the reference region and the texture feature amount of the input infrared image is equal to or less than a certain value And a feature amount comparison unit comprising a circuit, and the monitoring area is submerged in accordance with the discrimination operation of the feature amount comparison unit comprising the feature amount comparison circuit. Since the judgment is made, the global inundation judgment according to the topography of the target area can be performed accurately and appropriately by processing the topographic image of the target area, and inundation monitoring is possible even in a place where there is no illumination at night An inundation monitoring device can be provided.

Embodiment 6 FIG.
A sixth embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing a configuration in the sixth embodiment.
In the sixth embodiment, the configuration other than the specific configuration described here has the same configuration contents as any of the first to fifth embodiments described above, and exhibits the same operation. Is.

In FIG. 10, an ITV camera 1 captures a terrain including a water surface portion such as a river and a non-water surface portion such as a road for a predetermined target area to obtain a terrain image. The network 2 is connected to the inundation monitoring apparatus main body WM.
The inundation monitoring device main body WM includes an image image processing device 3, a map information storage device 4, an inundation determination circuit 5, and an inundation area storage circuit 51 to which a topographic image photographed by the ITV camera 1 is input. To the display 6.
The image processing apparatus 3 sets a reference area on an image input to the image processing apparatus 3 and stores a reference area setting recording circuit 31 that constitutes a reference image storage unit that stores an image of the set reference area. A texture feature amount calculation circuit 33 for calculating the amount, a feature amount comparison circuit 34 for comparing the texture feature amount, and a monitoring region is set on the image input to the image processing apparatus 3 and an image of the set monitoring region is accumulated. The monitoring area setting circuit 35 is a monitoring image storage unit.

In the sixth embodiment, the case where the present invention is applied to monitoring of coastal erosion and sandbar change will be described as follows.
The water level is measured by installing a water level plate at a position where the ITV camera can shoot the target area, and reading the scale image of the taken water level plate with the water level plate scale reading means. The flooded area is detected by the configuration shown in FIG. 10 similar to the configuration of 1 and is stored in the flooded area storage unit 41 as time-series data in which the water level and the flooded area are associated with each other.
By accumulating data in this way, the inundation area at the reference tide level can be easily calculated from the relationship between the water level and the inundation area by interpolation calculation. In addition, it is possible to monitor and monitor topographic data and long-term fluctuations in the inundated areas of the coast and offshore areas at low cost without surveying.
Here, the case where the water level is measured by the quantity water plate scale reading means has been described, but the same effect can be obtained even if the data measured by the water level meter is used.

  In the above description, the case where the present invention is applied to the configuration shown in FIG. 10 that is the same as the first embodiment having the configuration shown in FIG. 1 has been described. The configuration of the sixth embodiment can be applied.

  According to the sixth embodiment of the present invention, in any of the configurations from the first to sixth embodiments, the inundation area based on the determination result of the inundation area determination means including the inundation area determination circuit 5 is determined as the target area. Since the inundation area storage means including the inundation area storage circuit 51 for storing time series data in correspondence with the water level in the predetermined portion is provided, the global image according to the topography of the target area can be obtained by processing the topographic image of the target area. Inundation judgment can be performed accurately and appropriately, and the inundation area at the reference tide level can be easily calculated from the relationship between the water level and the inundation area by interpolation. In addition, it is possible to provide an inundation monitoring device that can grasp and monitor the long-term fluctuation state at low cost.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure in Embodiment 1 by this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the operation | movement of the image processing which sets the monitoring area | region in Embodiment 1 by this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure in Embodiment 2 by this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the operation | movement of the image processing which does not set the monitoring area | region in Embodiment 2 by this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure in Embodiment 3 by this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the operation | movement of the image processing by the time difference in Embodiment 3 by this invention. It is explanatory drawing in the case of detecting using the polarizing plate in Embodiment 4 by this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure in Embodiment 5 by this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the operation | movement of the image process of the infrared camera image in Embodiment 5 by this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure in Embodiment 6 by this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1 ITV camera, 2 network, 3 image processing device, 4 map information storage device, 5 flooded area determination circuit, 6 display, 10 infrared camera, 11 polarization plate, 31 reference area setting recording circuit, 32 time difference calculation circuit, 33 Texture feature quantity calculation circuit, 34 feature quantity comparison circuit, 35 monitoring area setting circuit, 36 time variation area detection circuit, 51 flooded area storage circuit.

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  An imaging unit that captures the terrain of the target area and an image processing device that inputs and processes the terrain image captured by the imaging unit, and an image as a water surface image on the input image input to the image processing device An image for determining whether a reference area setting means for setting a reference area having a pattern, and whether an image pattern in the reference area and an image pattern in a comparison area as a comparison target on the input image have a predetermined approximation An inundation monitoring apparatus, comprising: a pattern comparison unit; and determining inundation of a target area according to a determination operation of the image pattern comparison unit.   A reference for providing a reference area on an input image input to the image processing apparatus, comprising: an imaging means for capturing the terrain of the target area; and an image processing apparatus for inputting and processing the terrain image captured by the imaging means. Area setting means, monitoring area setting means for setting a monitoring area on the input image, texture calculation means for calculating a texture feature quantity of the image, texture feature quantity of the reference area, and texture feature quantity of the monitoring area A feature amount comparing means for determining whether or not the difference is equal to or less than a predetermined value, and referring to the map information from the map information accumulating means having the map information of the target area according to the determination operation of the feature amount comparing means An inundation monitoring apparatus comprising an inundation area determination means for determining inundation of an area.   The inundation monitoring apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a density histogram normalized as a texture feature amount is calculated by a texture calculation unit.   The inundation monitoring apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a primary statistic of the density histogram is calculated by the texture calculation means as the texture feature amount.   The inundation monitoring apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a secondary statistic of the density histogram is calculated by the texture calculation means as the texture feature amount.   The inundation monitoring apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the frequency distribution of the image is calculated by the texture calculation means as the texture feature amount.   An imaging unit for imaging the terrain of the target area and an image processing device for inputting and processing the terrain image captured by the imaging unit, and a predetermined structure on the input image input to the image processing device An inundation monitoring apparatus comprising: a monitoring area setting means for setting a monitoring area to be included, and determining inundation of a target area by template matching using the structure as a template.   A reference for providing a reference area on an input image input to the image processing apparatus, comprising: an imaging means for capturing the terrain of the target area; and an image processing apparatus for inputting and processing the terrain image captured by the imaging means. Area setting means, time difference calculating means for calculating a difference area by time-differing successive input images input to the image processing apparatus at a predetermined time interval, texture calculating means for calculating a texture feature amount of the image, And feature amount comparison means for determining whether the difference between the texture feature amount of the reference area and the texture feature amount of the image corresponding to the difference area calculated by the time difference calculation means is equal to or less than a predetermined value. Inundation monitoring device.   An imaging unit that captures the terrain of the target region and an image processing device that inputs and processes the terrain image captured by the imaging unit, and continuously input images input to the image processing device at predetermined time intervals A time difference calculating means for calculating a difference area by time difference in the step, and determining inundation of the target area by template matching using the structure of the difference area calculated by the time difference calculating means as a template Monitoring device.   An imaging unit that captures the terrain of the target region and an image processing device that inputs and processes the terrain image captured by the imaging unit, and continuously input images input to the image processing device at predetermined time intervals A time difference calculation means for calculating a difference image due to time fluctuations and time fluctuations peculiar to the water surface, and a time change area detection means for detecting a water surface area and determining inundation by inputting the difference image calculated by the time difference calculation means. And a flood monitoring device.   An imaging means for imaging the terrain of the target area and an image processing device for inputting and processing the terrain image captured by the imaging means, the angle between the optical axis of the imaging means and the normal of the horizontal plane The angle of the imaging means is set so as to be close to the star angle, and the polarization means is installed so that the polarization axis is parallel to a plane (incident surface) including a normal line of the optical axis of the imaging means and a horizontal plane. An inundation monitoring device, characterized in that it is configured to take a picture through.   A reference for providing a reference region on an infrared image input to the image processing apparatus, comprising: an infrared camera that captures the terrain of the target area; and an image processing device that inputs and processes the terrain image captured by the infrared camera. Region setting means, texture calculation means for calculating texture feature values of the infrared image, and feature value comparison means for determining whether the difference between the texture feature value of the reference area and the texture feature value of the input infrared image is equal to or less than a predetermined value The inundation monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the inundation of the monitoring area is determined according to a determination operation of the feature amount comparison means. The inundation area | region memory | storage means which memorize | stores the inundation area | region by the determination result corresponding to the water level in the predetermined part of the said object area | region as time series data was provided. Inundation monitoring device.

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