UAV & satellite synergies for optical remote sensing applications: A literature review

E Alvarez-Vanhard, T Corpetti, T Houet - Science of remote sensing, 2021 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and satellite constellations are both essential Earth
Observation (EO) systems for monitoring land surface dynamics. The former is frequently …

Invasive alien plant species: Their impact on environment, ecosystem services and human health

PK Rai, JS Singh - Ecological indicators, 2020 - Elsevier
Ecological perturbations caused by biotic invasion have been identified as a growing threat
to global sustainability. Invasive alien plants species (IAPS) are considered to be one of the …

A review of remote sensing applications in agriculture for food security: Crop growth and yield, irrigation, and crop losses

L Karthikeyan, I Chawla, AK Mishra - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
The global population is expected to reach 9.8 billion by 2050. There is an exponential
growth of food production to meet the needs of the growing population. However, the limited …

On the use of unmanned aerial systems for environmental monitoring

S Manfreda, MF McCabe, PE Miller, R Lucas… - Remote sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Environmental monitoring plays a central role in diagnosing climate and management
impacts on natural and agricultural systems; enhancing the understanding of hydrological …

Remote sensing of terrestrial plant biodiversity

R Wang, JA Gamon - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Biodiversity is essential to healthy ecosystem function, influencing productivity and
resilience to disturbance. Biodiversity loss endangers essential ecosystem services and …

Drones for conservation in protected areas: Present and future

J Jiménez López, M Mulero-Pázmány - Drones, 2019 - mdpi.com
Park managers call for cost-effective and innovative solutions to handle a wide variety of
environmental problems that threaten biodiversity in protected areas. Recently, drones have …

Current practices in UAS-based environmental monitoring

G Tmušić, S Manfreda, H Aasen, MR James… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
With the increasing role that unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are playing in data collection
for environmental studies, two key challenges relate to harmonizing and providing …

UAV data as alternative to field sampling to map woody invasive species based on combined Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data

T Kattenborn, J Lopatin, M Förster, AC Braun… - Remote sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Invasive plant species can pose major threats to biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and
services. Satellite based remote sensing has evolved as an important technology to spatially …

Mini-unmanned aerial vehicle-based remote sensing: Techniques, applications, and prospects

TZ Xiang, GS Xia, L Zhang - IEEE geoscience and remote …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The past few decades have witnessed great progress for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
in civilian fields, especially in photogrammetry and remote sensing. In contrast with manned …

Convolutional Neural Networks accurately predict cover fractions of plant species and communities in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle imagery

T Kattenborn, J Eichel, S Wiser… - Remote Sensing in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) greatly extended our possibilities to acquire high
resolution remote sensing data for assessing the spatial distribution of species composition …