Recent developments in technology and data processing for Unoccupied Aerial Vehicles
(UAVs) have revolutionized the scope of ecosystem monitoring, providing novel pathways to …

With the increase of service years, external walls of high-rise buildings tend to suffer from a
variety of defects which impose great safety risks. Traditional methods for inspecting high …

Forests and orchards are not only vital for the nature as the lungs of the earth but also crucial
as a source of food production. In these fields, so-called Oracha-forest could mainly benefit …

Obtaining accurate, precise and timely spatial information on the distribution and dynamics
of urban green space is crucial in understanding livability of the cities and urban dwellers …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) paired with a structure from motion (SfM) algorithm (UAV-
SfM) can be used to derive canopy height models (CHMs) for individual tree crown …

The monitoring of winter wheat Fusarium head blight via rapid and non-destructive
measures is important for agricultural production and disease control. Images of unmanned …

In burned landscapes, the recruitment success of the tree dominant species mainly depends
on plant competition mechanisms operating at fine spatial scale, that may hinder resource …

A new semantic segmentation network, Space Atrous Depthwise Network (SADNet), was
proposed to segment orchard unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images. In SADNet, a …

Studying individual trees is a common way that scientists employ to study forests and
estimate forest parameters. In this study, a graph-based approach was developed for …

In dry regions, gardens and trees within the urban space are of considerable significance.
These gardens are facing harsh weather conditions and environmental stresses; on the …