UAV remote sensing applications in marine monitoring: Knowledge visualization and review

Z Yang, X Yu, S Dedman, M Rosso, J Zhu… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the booming development of information technology and the growing demand for
remote sensing data, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing technology has …

UAVs for science in Antarctica

P Pina, G Vieira - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Remote sensing is a very powerful tool that has been used to identify, map and monitor
Antarctic features and processes for nearly one century. Satellite remote sensing plays the …

Existing and emerging uses of drones in restoration ecology

JM Robinson, PA Harrison, S Mavoa… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the absence of effective and scalable human intervention, up to 95% of the world's
ecosystems will be affected by anthropogenic degradation by 2050. Therefore, immediate …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in marine mammal research: A review of current applications and challenges

M Álvarez-González, P Suarez-Bregua, GJ Pierce… - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Research on the ecology and biology of marine mammal populations is necessary to
understand ecosystem dynamics and to support conservation management. Emerging …

Controllable factors affecting accuracy and precision of human identification of animals from drone imagery

LR Jones, JA Elmore, BS Krishnan, S Samiappan… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Surveying animal populations using drones (unoccupied aircraft systems [UAS]) provides
numerous advantages; however, few best practices exist to survey animal communities with …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing topographic features and population abundance in an Antarctic penguin colony through UAV-based deep-learning models

O Belyaev, A Román, J Belliure, G Navarro… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Penguins play an essential biochemical role in the Antarctic ecosystem, being the study of
their dynamics of utmost importance to understand their environment, behaviour and …

An automated work-flow for pinniped surveys: A new tool for monitoring population dynamics

E Infantes, D Carroll, WTAF Silva… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Detecting changes in population trends depends on the accuracy of estimated mean
population growth rates and thus the quality of input data. However, monitoring wildlife …

Evidence on the efficacy of small unoccupied aircraft systems (UAS) as a survey tool for North American terrestrial, vertebrate animals: a systematic map

JA Elmore, EA Schultz, LR Jones, KO Evans… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Background Small unoccupied aircraft systems (UAS) are replacing or supplementing
occupied aircraft and ground-based surveys in animal monitoring due to improved sensors …

Estimation of total population size of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) on Kerguelen and Crozet Archipelagos using very high-resolution satellite imagery

J Laborie, M Authier, A Chaigne, K Delord… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) play a pivotal role in the Southern Ocean as
wide-ranging marine predators and major prey consumers within Southern Ocean marine …

Best practices for using drones in seabird monitoring and research

A Edney, T Hart, M Jessopp, A Banks, L Clarke… - Marine …, 2023 - ora.ox.ac.uk
Over the past decade, drones have become increasingly popular in environmental biology
and have been used to study wildlife on all continents. Drones have become of global …