Ecologists require spatially explicit data to relate structure to function. To date, heavy
reliance has been placed on obtaining such data from remote‐sensing instruments mounted …

Agriculture consumes an important ratio of the water reserve in irrigated areas. The
improvement of irrigation is becoming essential to reduce this high water consumption by …

Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) is presently in continuous development at a rapid pace.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or more extensively Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) …

Crop monitoring is important in precision agriculture. Estimating above-ground biomass
helps to monitor crop vitality and to predict yield. In this study, we estimated fresh and dry …

Highlights•Site-specific cotton yield estimation was conducted.•The performance of multiple
image sensors were evaluated.•Data were registered based on image features.•Methods …

This article presents an environmental remote sensing application using a UAV that is
specifically aimed at reducing the data gap between field scale and satellite scale in soil …

Data gathered through community-based forest monitoring (CBFM) programs may be as
accurate as those gathered by professional scientists, but acquired at a much lower cost and …

Using unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) as remote sensing platforms offers the unique
ability for repeated deployment for acquisition of high temporal resolution data at very high …

Background Aboveground biomass (AGB) is a widely used agronomic parameter for
characterizing crop growth status and predicting grain yield. The rapid and accurate …

Unmanned aerial system (UAS)-based remote sensing is one promising technique for
precision crop management, but few studies have reported the applications of such systems …