UAV-based forest health monitoring: A systematic review

S Ecke, J Dempewolf, J Frey, A Schwaller, E Endres… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, technological advances have led to the increasing use of unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) for forestry applications. One emerging field for drone application is forest …

Unmanned aerial vehicle for remote sensing applications—A review

H Yao, R Qin, X Chen - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) sensors and platforms nowadays are being used in
almost every application (eg, agriculture, forestry, and mining) that needs observed …

Quantitative remote sensing at ultra-high resolution with UAV spectroscopy: a review of sensor technology, measurement procedures, and data correction workflows

H Aasen, E Honkavaara, A Lucieer, PJ Zarco-Tejada - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
In the last 10 years, development in robotics, computer vision, and sensor technology has
provided new spectral remote sensing tools to capture unprecedented ultra-high spatial and …

A review of UAV monitoring in mining areas: Current status and future perspectives

H Ren, Y Zhao, W Xiao, Z Hu - International Journal of Coal Science & …, 2019 - Springer
With the emergence and development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), different
sensors have become more miniaturized and intelligent. UAVs equipped with various …

Automated tree-crown and height detection in a young forest plantation using mask region-based convolutional neural network (Mask R-CNN)

Z Hao, L Lin, CJ Post, EA Mikhailova, M Li… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tree-crown and height are primary tree measurements in forest inventory. Convolutional
neural networks (CNNs) are a class of neural networks, which can be used in forest …

Forestry applications of UAVs in Europe: A review

C Torresan, A Berton, F Carotenuto… - … journal of remote …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or remotely piloted aircraft systems are new platforms that
have been increasingly used over the last decade in Europe to collect data for forest …

Forestry remote sensing from unmanned aerial vehicles: A review focusing on the data, processing and potentialities

N Guimarães, L Pádua, P Marques, N Silva, E Peres… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Currently, climate change poses a global threat, which may compromise the sustainability of
agriculture, forestry and other land surface systems. In a changing world scenario, the …

Drones for conservation in protected areas: Present and future

J Jiménez López, M Mulero-Pázmány - Drones, 2019 - mdpi.com
Park managers call for cost-effective and innovative solutions to handle a wide variety of
environmental problems that threaten biodiversity in protected areas. Recently, drones have …

Salt marsh dynamics in a period of accelerated sea level rise

S Fagherazzi, G Mariotti, N Leonardi… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Salt marshes are dynamic systems able to laterally expand, contract, and vertically accrete
in response to sea level rise. Here, we present the grand challenges that need to be …

Development and performance evaluation of a very low-cost UAV-LiDAR system for forestry applications

T Hu, X Sun, Y Su, H Guan, Q Sun, M Kelly, Q Guo - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Accurate and repeated forest inventory data are critical to understand forest ecosystem
processes and manage forest resources. In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) …