A comprehensive survey on point cloud registration

X Huang, G Mei, J Zhang, R Abbas - arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.02690, 2021 - arxiv.org
Registration is a transformation estimation problem between two point clouds, which has a
unique and critical role in numerous computer vision applications. The developments of …

Optimization approaches for civil applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or aerial drones: A survey

A Otto, N Agatz, J Campbell, B Golden, E Pesch - Networks, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or aerial drones, are an emerging technology with
significant market potential. UAVs may lead to substantial cost savings in, for instance …

On the potential synergies and applications of wave energy converters: A review

D Clemente, P Rosa-Santos, F Taveira-Pinto - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2021 - Elsevier
Within the scope of a changing energy market, wave energy has yet to reach a level of
commercial viability that enables it to become competitive with alternative energy sources …

Sub-annual to multi-decadal shoreline variability from publicly available satellite imagery

K Vos, MD Harley, KD Splinter, JA Simmons… - Coastal …, 2019 - Elsevier
The ability to repeatedly observe and quantify the changing position of the shoreline is key
to present-day coastal management and future coastal planning. This study evaluates the …

A review on absolute visual localization for UAV

A Couturier, MA Akhloufi - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
Research on unmanned aerial vehicles is growing as they are becoming less expensive
and more available than before. The applications span a large number of areas and include …

Applications of UAVs in civil infrastructure

WW Greenwood, JP Lynch, D Zekkos - Journal of infrastructure …, 2019 - ascelibrary.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or drones, have become popular tools for practitioners
and researchers alike. Recent years have seen a significant increase in UAV uses for many …

Mapping and classification of ecologically sensitive marine habitats using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery and object-based image analysis (OBIA)

D Ventura, A Bonifazi, MF Gravina, A Belluscio… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Nowadays, emerging technologies, such as long-range transmitters, increasingly
miniaturized components for positioning, and enhanced imaging sensors, have led to an …

Evaluating the potential of post-processing kinematic (PPK) georeferencing for UAV-based structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry and surface change detection

H Zhang, E Aldana-Jague, F Clapuyt… - Earth Surface …, 2019 - esurf.copernicus.org
Images captured by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and processed by structure-from-
motion (SfM) photogrammetry are increasingly used in geomorphology to obtain high …

Evaluation of UAV LiDAR for mapping coastal environments

YC Lin, YT Cheng, T Zhou, R Ravi, SM Hasheminasab… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based remote sensing techniques have demonstrated
great potential for monitoring rapid shoreline changes. With image-based approaches …

Mapping coastal wetland biomass from high resolution unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery

CL Doughty, KC Cavanaugh - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Salt marsh productivity is an important control of resiliency to sea level rise. However, our
understanding of how marsh biomass and productivity vary across fine spatial and temporal …