UAVs as remote sensing platforms in plant ecology: review of applications and challenges

Z Sun, X Wang, Z Wang, L Yang, Y Xie… - Journal of Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Aims Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), ie drones, have recently emerged as cost-
effective and flexible tools for acquiring remote sensing data with fine spatial and temporal …

Technology innovation: advancing capacities for the early detection of and rapid response to invasive species

B Martinez, JK Reaser, A Dehgan, B Zamft, D Baisch… - Biological …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The 2016–2018 National Invasive Species Council (NISC) Management Plan and
Executive Order 13751 call for US federal agencies to foster technology development and …

WeedMap: A large-scale semantic weed mapping framework using aerial multispectral imaging and deep neural network for precision farming

I Sa, M Popović, R Khanna, Z Chen, P Lottes… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
The ability to automatically monitor agricultural fields is an important capability in precision
farming, enabling steps towards more sustainable agriculture. Precise, high-resolution …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of White Leaf Disease in Sugarcane Crops Using UAV-Derived RGB Imagery with Existing Deep Learning Models

N Amarasingam, F Gonzalez, ASA Salgadoe… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
White leaf disease (WLD) is an economically significant disease in the sugarcane industry.
This work applied remote sensing techniques based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) …

The rapid rise of next-generation natural history

MI Tosa, EH Dziedzic, CL Appel, J Urbina… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Many ecologists have lamented the demise of natural history and have attributed this
decline to a misguided view that natural history is outdated and unscientific. Although there …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating techniques for mapping island vegetation from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images: Pixel classification, visual interpretation and machine …

SM Hamylton, RH Morris, RC Carvalho, N Roder… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
We evaluate three approaches to mapping vegetation using images collected by an
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to monitor rehabilitation activities in the Five Islands Nature …

Comparison and assessment of different object-based classifications using machine learning algorithms and UAVs multispectral imagery: A case study in a citrus …

G Modica, G De Luca, G Messina… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This study aimed to compare and assess different Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis
(GEOBIA) and machine learning algorithms using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) …

Deep convolutional neural network for large-scale date palm tree mapping from UAV-based images

MBA Gibril, HZM Shafri, A Shanableh, R Al-Ruzouq… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Large-scale mapping of date palm trees is vital for their consistent monitoring and
sustainable management, considering their substantial commercial, environmental, and …

Pattern to process, research to practice: remote sensing of plant invasions

J Müllerová, G Brundu, A Große-Stoltenberg… - Biological …, 2023 - Springer
Processes that drive plant invasions play out across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Understanding individual steps along the introduction-naturalization-invasion continuum …

Remote sensing for vegetation monitoring in carbon capture storage regions: A review

Y Chen, JP Guerschman, Z Cheng, L Guo - Applied energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is an emerging climate change mitigation
technology which prevents carbon dioxide (CO 2) from entering the atmosphere, so as to …