Fuselage Damage Locator System
Yair Wiseman · Advanced Science and Technology Letters · 2013
Abstract. Damaged fuselage can cause a fatal catastrophe that will claim numerous lives. This paper suggests the use of a regular digital camera that can generate JPEG images so as to locate the damaged part of the fuselage. The digital camera takes pictures of the fuselage. The signal processing method of JPEG assumes that the taken image is to a certain extent smooth. As a result when there is a sharp change in a particular block of an image, the value of many of its frequency coefficients will be high and it will be compressed into many more bits; therefore, if the image is overly large, an embedded computer system can track down the damage. In that case, sometimes an action can be taken so as to reduce the devastative effects of the damage.