Abstract: Land leveling project is one of the most important parts of the land remediation project, and the rapid and accurate calculation of the earthwork of the project is related to the success of the planning of the land remediation and whether the project funds are reasonable. This paper takes Zezhou county river basin in Jincheng city of Shanxi Province as an example, and introduces the UAV technology to collect the land leveling engineering foundation data to generate DEM data for land leveling. Then, with the help of the elevation statistical function of ArcGIS 10.1 software, the ideal study area for design elevation statistics to be obtained, based on all above, the amount of soil about the plots to dig and fill finally obtained. The results show that the method can greatly reduce the duplication of earthwork calculation and that the calculation results are accurate.

Key words: UAV, DEM, land leveling, ArcGIS, earthwork