Drones for Biodiversity Conservation and Ecological Monitoring

• Main Author: Mücher, C.A (auth)
• Other Authors: Díaz-Delgado, Ricardo (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: Pinus nigra; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); biological conservation; precision; flight altitude; accuracy; multiscale approach; low-cost UAV; LTER; small UAV; ecological monitoring; Sequoia; long-term monitoring; albedo; image processing; vegetation indices; Tanzania; ground-truth; Sentinel-2; biodiversity threats; field experiments; effective management; great apes; drone; ecological integrity; multispectral; rice crops; conservation; protected areas; survey; response surface; aerial survey; bird censuses; multispectral mapping; drones; UAS; hyperspectral; UAV; random forest; Pinus sylvestris; NDVI; UAVs; Parrot Sequoia; supervised classification; drone mapping; RPAS; greenness index; image resolution; Plegadis falcinellus; Motus; biodiversity; Landsat 8; Sentinel; boreal forest; phenology; LTSER; western swamphen; Parrot SEQUOIA; native grassland; forêt Montmorency; drought; forest regeneration; radio-tracking
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have already become an affordable and cost-efficient tool to quickly map a targeted area for many emerging applications in the arena of ecological monitoring and biodiversity conservation. Managers, owners, companies, and scientists are using professional drones equipp...