Detection of the Coordinates of the Bee Swarm in the Sky Through Image Processing

Abstract

By scattering pollen to flowers, bees allow plants and trees to bear fruit and disperse their seeds. This important task of bees in life continues the oxygen cycle, which is vital for humans. To put it briefly, a large part of life on earth depends on bees doing their job. In recent years, there has been an annual decrease in the number of bee colonies. For this reason, it is of great importance to keep the bee population under control and to prevent its decline. In this study, the x and y coordinates of a bee swarm in the sky were obtained using the MATLAB program. For this purpose, erosion, one of the morphological image processing methods, was used. In this way, objects other than bees in the photograph used in image processing were removed. With the developed algorithm, the coordinates were determined in the photograph where only the bees were visible. The obtained coordinates are written on the command line of the MATLAB program. Thus, the instantaneous location of the bees could be determined properly.