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 …

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Photogrammetric 3D Mapping: A survey of techniques, applications, and challenges

S Jiang, W Jiang, L Wang - IEEE Geoscience and Remote …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Three-dimensional mapping is an increasingly important feature for recent photogrammetry
and remote sensing (RS) systems. Currently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have …

Quality assessment of DSMs produced from UAV flights georeferenced with on-board RTK positioning

G Forlani, E Dall'Asta, F Diotri, U Morra di Cella… - Remote sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
High-resolution Digital Surface Models (DSMs) from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
imagery with accuracy better than 10 cm open new possibilities in geosciences and …

Testing accuracy and repeatability of UAV blocks oriented with GNSS-supported aerial triangulation

F Benassi, E Dall'Asta, F Diotri, G Forlani… - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
UAV Photogrammetry today already enjoys a largely automated and efficient data
processing pipeline. However, the goal of dispensing with Ground Control Points looks …

Assessing spring phenology of a temperate woodland: A multiscale comparison of ground, unmanned aerial vehicle and Landsat satellite observations

EF Berra, R Gaulton, S Barr - Remote sensing of environment, 2019 - Elsevier
The monitoring of forest phenology in a cost-effective manner, at a fine spatial scale and
over relatively large areas remains a significant challenge. To address this issue, unmanned …

Rock glaciers throughout the French Alps accelerated and destabilised since 1990 as air temperatures increased

M Marcer, A Cicoira, D Cusicanqui, X Bodin… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Rock glaciers—ice-rich creeping landforms typical of permafrost mountain ranges—can
develop an anomalous landslide-like behaviour called destabilisation. This behaviour is …

Rock glaciers and the geomorphological evolution of deglacierizing mountains

J Knight, S Harrison, DB Jones - Geomorphology, 2019 - Elsevier
Rock glaciers are an important geomorphic element of glaciated mountain landscapes, but
our understanding of their distribution and ages, controls on their development, and their …

A general theory of rock glacier creep based on in‐situ and remote sensing observations

A Cicoira, M Marcer, I Gärtner‐Roer… - Permafrost and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The ongoing acceleration in rock glacier velocities concurrent with increasing air
temperatures, and the widespread onset of rock glacier destabilization have reinforced the …

Ice content and interannual water storage changes of an active rock glacier in the dry Andes of Argentina

C Halla, JH Blöthe, C Tapia Baldis… - The …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
The quantification of volumetric ice and water content in active rock glaciers is necessary to
estimate their role as water stores and contributors to runoff in dry mountain catchments. In …

Application of UAV-based orthomosaics for determination of horizontal displacement caused by underground mining

E Puniach, W Gruszczyński, P Ćwiąkała… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Underground mining operations result in displacements and deformations of the land
surface, which may pose a threat to building structures. The scale of horizontal …