Applications of unmanned aerial vehicles in cryosphere: Latest advances and prospects

C Gaffey, A Bhardwaj - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Owing to usual logistic hardships related to field-based cryospheric research, remote
sensing has played a significant role in understanding the frozen components of the Earth …

Close-Range Remote Sensing of Forests: The state of the art, challenges, and opportunities for systems and data acquisitions

X Liang, A Kukko, I Balenović… - … and remote sensing …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Remote sensing-based forest investigation and monitoring have become more affordable
and applicable in the past few decades. The current bottleneck limiting practical use of the …

UAVs for science in Antarctica

P Pina, G Vieira - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Remote sensing is a very powerful tool that has been used to identify, map and monitor
Antarctic features and processes for nearly one century. Satellite remote sensing plays the …

Unmanned aerial vehicle-based ground-penetrating radar systems: A review

YÁ López, M Garcia-Fernandez… - … and Remote Sensing …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Advances in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology have fostered its use in a wide
range of areas, such as agriculture and forestry, surveillance and security, and infrastructure …

Contactless ground penetrating radar imaging: State of the art, challenges, and microwave tomography-based data processing

I Catapano, G Gennarelli, G Ludeno… - … and Remote Sensing …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art in contactless
ground-penetrating radar (GPR) systems. These devices offer many large-scale subsurface …

Drone-borne ground-penetrating radar for snow cover mapping

A Vergnano, D Franco, A Godio - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is one of the most commonly used instruments to map the
Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) in mountainous regions. However, some areas may be …

UAS-borne radar for remote sensing: A review

L Miccinesi, A Beni, M Pieraccini - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Since the 1950s, radar sensors have been widely used for the monitoring of the earth's
surface. The current radars for remote sensing can be divided into two main categories …

An overview on down-looking UAV-based GPR systems

C Noviello, G Gennarelli, G Esposito, G Ludeno… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Radar imaging from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a dynamic research topic attracting
huge interest due to its practical fallouts. In this context, this article provides a …

Array-based ground penetrating synthetic aperture radar on board an unmanned aerial vehicle for enhanced buried threats detection

M García-Fernández… - … on Geoscience and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-based ground penetrating radar (GPR)
systems has gained interest over the last years thanks to advantages over ground-based …

Taking a look beneath the surface: Multicopter UAV-based ground-penetrating imaging radars

A Grathwohl, M Stelzig, J Kanz, P Fenske… - IEEE Microwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The field of multicopter unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has seen massive technological
advances and decreasing costs over the last decade. Due to the higher prevalence and …