Unmanned aerial vehicles in hydrology and water management: Applications, challenges, and perspectives

BS Acharya, M Bhandari, F Bandini… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The hydrologic sciences and water resources management have long depended on a
combination of in situ measurements and remotely sensed data for research and regulatory …

Emerging technologies to measure neighborhood conditions in public health: implications for interventions and next steps

M Schootman, EJ Nelson, K Werner… - International journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Adverse neighborhood conditions play an important role beyond individual characteristics.
There is increasing interest in identifying specific characteristics of the social and built …

The potential use of unmanned aircraft systems (drones) in mountain search and rescue operations

Y Karaca, M Cicek, O Tatli, A Sahin, S Pasli… - The American journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective This study explores the potential use of drones in searching for and locating
victims and of motorized transportation of search and rescue providers in a mountain …

Estimating plant traits of grasslands from UAV-acquired hyperspectral images: a comparison of statistical approaches

A Capolupo, L Kooistra, C Berendonk, L Boccia… - … International Journal of …, 2015 - mdpi.com
Grassland ecosystems cover around 40% of the entire Earth's surface. Therefore, it is
necessary to guarantee good grassland management at field scale in order to improve its …

Agricultural innovation and the role of institutions: lessons from the game of drones

P Frankelius, C Norrman, K Johansen - Journal of Agricultural and …, 2019 - Springer
In 2015, observers argued that the fourth agricultural revolution had been initiated. This
article focuses on one part of this high-tech revolution: the origin, development, applications …

Photogrammetry for environmental monitoring: The use of drones and hydrological models for detection of soil contaminated by copper

A Capolupo, S Pindozzi, C Okello, N Fiorentino… - Science of the Total …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Campania Region of Southern Italy has a complex environmental situation, due to
geogenic and anthropogenic soil pollution. Some of the pollutants such as copper are …

Optimising beached litter monitoring protocols through aerial imagery

A Deidun, A Gauci, S Lagorio, F Galgani - Marine pollution bulletin, 2018 - Elsevier
The monitoring of beached litter along the coast is an onerous obligation enshrined within a
number of legislative frameworks (eg the MSFD) and which requires substantial human …

Use of geospatial surveillance and response systems for vector-borne diseases in the elimination phase

JB Malone, R Bergquist, M Martins… - Tropical Medicine and …, 2019 - mdpi.com
The distribution of diseases caused by vector-borne viruses and parasites are restricted by
the environmental requirements of their vectors, but also by the ambient temperature inside …

Unmanned aerial systems and healthcare: Possibilities and challenges

RW Jones, G Despotou - 2019 14th IEEE Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) have an enormous number of possible commercial and
personal uses ranging from the basic delivery of packages to environmental monitoring and …

A novel approach for detecting agricultural terraced landscapes from historical and contemporaneous photogrammetric aerial photos

A Capolupo, L Kooistra, L Boccia - … journal of applied earth observation and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Terraces are the most distinctive sign of human activity on the shape of the Earth surface.
Their construction has increased the soils permeability and reduced the slope gradient of …