The structure and composition of plant communities in drylands are highly variable across
scales, from microsites to landscapes. Fine spatial resolution field surveys of dryland plants …

A combined multiscale approach using ground, drone and satellite surveys can provide
accurate landscape scale spatial mapping and monitoring. We used field observations with …

Aerial drones enable detailed three-dimensional terrain and vegetation canopy
reconstructions supporting a diverse set of environmental monitoring applications. Small …

Uncrewed aerial systems (UASs) have emerged as powerful ecological observation
platforms capable of filling critical spatial and spectral observation gaps in plant …

With recent advances in technology, personal aerial imagery acquired with unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) has transformed the way ecologists can map seasonal changes in wetland …

The recent availability of small and low-cost sensor carrying unmanned aerial systems
(UAS, commonly known as drones) coupled with advances in image processing software …

Covering 40% of the terrestrial surface, dryland ecosystems characteristically have distinct
vegetation structures that are strongly linked to their function. Existing survey approaches …

In the last few decades, revegetation strategies for ecosystem restoration have received
great attention in dryland studies, especially those related to the restoration and …

In adaptive management of rangelands, monitoring is the vital link that connects
management actions with on‐the‐ground changes. Traditional field monitoring methods can …

Monitoring semi-natural grasslands is difficult and costly because they occur in highly
dynamic and extremely complex habitat mosaics. We combined the use of a low-cost …