Commercial and private deployment of airborne drones is revolutionising many ecosystems.
To identify critical issues and research gaps, our systematic literature review findings …

The age of automation is upon us. Few decades earlier, nearly all the flying vehicles were
human-controlled. Nowadays, almost every air vehicle is partially automated or getting …

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 …

Rapid advances that improve flood management have facilitated the disaster response by
providing first aid services, finding safe routes, maintaining communication and developing …

Brain-inspired algorithms have become a new trend in next-generation artificial intelligence.
Through research on brain science, the intelligence of remote sensing algorithms can be …

Mining is an important human activity that significantly affects the landscape character,
particularly through excavation of spoil material and its deposition on spoil banks. The …

The estimation of sediment deposited behind dams and reservoirs is of great significance for
quantifying soil erosion rate and sediment flux. However, existing methods of sediment …

To overcome the difficulty of collecting fine-grained terrain data that is important for flood
modelling, this work presents a method for the application of UAV-based LiDAR techniques …

Seasonal or interannual precipitation differences lead to changes in the water level of a tufa
lake, while the underwater topography affects its local depth. Therefore, topo-bathymetry is …

The third industrial revolution is marked by the fast-growing evolution of Additive
Manufacturing (AM) in construction. This transformative shift is driving the automation of …