UAV or Drones for Remote Sensing Applications Volume 1

• Main Author: Felipe Gonzalez Toro (Ed.) (auth)
• Other Authors: Antonios Tsourdos (Ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: Environmental science, engineering & technology; UAV-Based Remote Sensing; drones; pedestrian detection and tracking as well as a range of atmospheric; UAV images; fuzzy-based hybrid control algorithms; water plume temperature measurements; aeromagnetic and archaeological surveys; geological; two-UAV communication system; agricultural; wildlife; reef; detection; multi-target localization; ecological; search and rescue (SAR); coastal area coverage; remote sensing; environmental science; segmentation in digital surface models for 3D reconstruction; location and grasping objects; augmented reality tools; building and construction; aerial robotics; noise suppression techniques; rectification for oblique images; vision-based tracking in cooperative multi-UAV systems
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The rapid development and growth of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as a remote sensing platform, as well as advances in the miniaturization of instrumentation and data systems, have resulted in an increasing uptake of this technology in the environmental and remote sensing science communities. Alth...