PI-COSMOS: An Open Source Python based High Speed Coastal Video Monitoring System

In recent years, Coastal video monitoring methods have been widely accepted tools for continuous monitoring of complex coastal processes. In this paper, the progress made on a new python based coastal video monitoring system, PI-COSMOS (Portuguese Indian COaStal MOnitoring System) which is being developed and tested jointly in India and Portuguese coasts is presented. PI-COSMOS system aims at providing open source, high speed video monitoring toolboxes for the coastal community that can be used anywhere in the world. PI-COSMOS is camera independent system and comprises four modules viz. PI-Calib for camera calibration, RectiPI for video imagery rectification, PI-ImageStacks for image product and pixel product generation and PI- DB for efficient database management. The applicability of PICOSMOS system under different coastal environment conditions has been tested using the data collected from the India as well as the Portugal coast. The results from one of the Indian stations installed at Kozhikode beach, Kerala, India situated at 11°15'14.12" N, 75° 46'15.40" E are presented here to demonstrate the capabilities of the newly developed PI-COSMOS system. the performance of PI-COSMOS is evaluated by conducting a comparative study among PICOSMOS and existing video monitoring toolboxes like UAV processing toolbox provided by Coastal Research Imaging Network and RectifyExtreme provided by the University of Lisbon and it is found that the processing speed of PI-COSMOS is very much high i.e. more than 5 times when compared to UAV processing toolbox and RectifyExtreme.  The high speed performance, camera independent nature and easiness in the operation made PI-COSMOS as the simplest and advanced open source video monitoring system.