With the booming development of information technology and the growing demand for
remote sensing data, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing technology has …

The paper discusses the experience of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in the
management of municipal solid waste landfills and dumpsites. Although the use of drones at …

Plastic pollution in water bodies is an unresolved environmental issue that damages all
aquatic environments, and causes economic and health problems. Accurate detection of …

The abundance of beach litter has been increasing globally during the last decades, and it is
an issue of global concern. A new survey strategy, based on uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAV …

Detection and identification of macroplastic debris in aquatic environments is crucial to
understand and counter the growing emergence and current developments in distribution …

Large quantities of mismanaged plastic waste are polluting and threatening the health of the
blue planet. As such, vast amounts of this plastic waste found in the oceans originates from …

In less than two decades, UASs (unmanned aerial systems) have revolutionized the field of
hydrology, bridging the gap between traditional satellite observations and ground-based …

The amount of marine litter, mainly composed by plastic materials, has become a global
environmental issue in coastal environments. Traditional monitoring programs are based on …

This baseline reports scientific evidence of marine litter items embedded in the dune volume
at two study sites on the North Atlantic Portuguese coast. We described how stranded litter …

Coastal and marine management require the evaluation of multiple environmental threats
and issues. However, there are gaps in the necessary data and poor access or …