UAV sensors for environmental monitoring / / edited by Felipe Gonzalez Toro, Antonios Tsourdos.

• TeilnehmendeR: Toro, Felipe Gonzalez,; Tsourdos, Antonios,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel, Switzerland : : MDPI,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 657 Seiten) :; illustrations

The rapid development and growth of UAVs as a remote sensing platform, as well as advances in the miniaturization of instrumentation and data systems, are catalyzing a renaissance in remote sensing in a variety of fields and disciplines from precision agriculture to ecology, atmospheric research, an...

Table of Contents

• About the Special Issue Editors. vii
• Preface to "UAV Sensors for Environmental Monitoring" ix
• Cristiana Achille, Andrea Adami, Silvia Chiarini, Stefano Cremonesi, Francesco Fassi, Luigi Fregonese and Laura Taffurelli UAV-Based Photogrammetry and Integrated Technologies for Architectural Applications- Methodological Strategies for the After-Quake Survey of Vertical Structures in Mantua (Italy) doi: 10.3390/s150715520 1
• Miguel Alvarado, Felipe Gonzalez, Andrew Fletcher and Ashray Doshi Towards the Development of a Low Cost Airborne Sensing System to Monitor Dust Particles after Blasting at Open-Pit Mine Sites doi: 10.3390/s150819667 18
• Gustavo S. C. Avellar, Guilherme A. S. Pereira *, Luciano C. A. Pimenta and Paulo Iscold Multi-UAV Routing for Area Coverage and Remote Sensing with Minimum Time doi: 10.3390/s151127783 36
• Piero Boccardo, Filiberto Chiabrando, Furio Dutto, Fabio Giulio Tonolo and Andrea Lingua UAV Deployment Exercise for Mapping Purposes: Evaluation of Emergency Response Applications doi: 10.3390/s150715717 54
• Monica Rivas Casado, Rocio Ballesteros Gonzalez, Thomas Kriechbaumer and Amanda Veal Automated Identification of River Hydromorphological Features Using UAV High Resolution Aerial Imagery doi: 10.3390/s151127969 72
• Chao-I Chen, Robert Koseluk, Chase Buchanan, Andrew Duerner, Brian Jeppesen and Hunter Laux Autonomous Aerial Refueling Ground Test Demonstration-A Sensor-in-the-Loop, Non-Tracking Method doi: 10.3390/s150510948 90
• Kai-Wei Chiang, Meng-Lun Tsai, El-Sheimy Naser, Ayman Habib and Chien-Hsun Chu A New Calibration Method Using Low Cost MEM IMUs to Verify the Performance of UAV-Borne MMS Payloads doi: 10.3390/s150306560 112
• Barı¸s Fidan and Ilknur Umay Adaptive Environmental Source Localization and Tracking with Unknown Permittivity and PathLoss Coefficients † doi: 10.3390/s151229852 136
• Fatih G ¨ok¸ce, G ¨oktrk Uoluk, Erol ¸sahin and Sinan Kalkan ¨ Vision-Based Detection and Distance Estimation of Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles doi: 10.3390/s150923805 15
• Luis F. Gonzalez, Glen A. Montes, Eduard Puig, Sandra Johnson, Kerrie Mengersen and Kevin J. Gaston Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Artificial Intelligence Revolutionizing Wildlife Monitoring and Conservation doi: 10.3390/s16010097 . 192
• Yoav Gottlieb and Tal Shima UAVs Task and Motion Planning in the Presence of Obstacles and Prioritized Targets doi: 10.3390/s151129734 210
• Andres Hernandez, Harold Murcia, Cosmin Copot and Robin De Keyser Towards the Development of a Smart Flying Sensor: Illustration in the Field of Precision Agriculture doi: 10.3390/s150716688 237
• Jaegyu Jang, Woo-Guen Ahn, Seungwoo Seo, Jang Yong Lee and Jun-Pyo Park Flight Test Result for the Ground-Based Radio Navigation System Sensor with an Unmanned Air Vehicle doi: 10.3390/s151128472 255
• Wonseok Kang, Soohwan Yu, Seungyong Ko and Joonki Paik Multisensor Super Resolution Using Directionally-Adaptive Regularization for UAV Images doi: 10.3390/s150512053 272
• Simon Karpenko, Ivan Konovalenko, Alexander Miller, Boris Miller and Dmitry Nikolaev UAV Control on the Basis of 3D Landmark Bearing-Only Observations doi: 10.3390/s151229768 295
• Jonathan Las Fargeas, Pierre Kabamba and Anouck Girard Cooperative Surveillance and Pursuit Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Unattended Ground Sensors doi: 10.3390/s150101365 314
• Hanlun Li, Aiwu Zhang and Shaoxing Hu A Multispectral Image Creating Method for a New Airborne Four-Camera System with Different Bandpass Filters doi: 10.3390/s150717453 333
• Kopp ´any M ´ath ´e and Lucian Bu¸soniu Vision and Control for UAVs: A Survey of General Methods and of Inexpensive Platforms for Infrastructure Inspection doi: 10.3390/s150714887 348
• Davide O. Nitti, Fabio Bovenga, Maria T. Chiaradia, Mario Greco and Gianpaolo Pinelli Feasibility of Using Synthetic Aperture Radar to Aid UAV Navigation doi: 10.3390/s150818334 372
• Miguel A. Olivares-Mendez, Changhong Fu, Philippe Ludivig, Tegawend´e F. Bissyand ´e, Somasundar Kannan, Maciej Zurad, Arun Annaiyan, Holger Voos and Pascual Campoy Towards an Autonomous Vision-Based Unmanned Aerial System against Wildlife Poachers doi: 10.3390/s151229861 394
• Chulwoo Park, Namhoon Cho, Kyunghyun Lee and Youdan Kim Formation Flight of Multiple UAVs via Onboard Sensor Information Sharing doi: 10.3390/s150717397 424
• Juan Jes ´us Roldn, Guillaume Joossen, David Sanz, Jaime del Cerro and Antonio Barrientos Mini-UAV Based Sensory System for Measuring Environmental Variables in Greenhouses doi: 10.3390/s150203334 444
• Inkyu Sa, Stefan Hrabar and Peter Corke Inspection of Pole-Like Structures Using a Visual-Inertial Aided VTOL Platform with Shared Autonomy doi: 10.3390/s150922003 459
• Ali Sayyed, Gustavo Medeiros de Ara ´ujo, Jo˜ao Paulo Bodanese and Leandro Buss Becker Dual-Stack Single-Radio Communication Architecture for UAV Acting As a Mobile Node to Collect Data in WSNs doi: 10.3390/s150923376 502
• Mozhdeh Shahbazi, Gunho Sohn, J ´er ˆome Th´eau and Patrick Menard Development and Evaluation of a UAV-Photogrammetry System for Precise 3D Environmental Modeling doi: 10.3390/s151127493 525
• Micaela Troglia Gamba, Gianluca Marucco, Marco Pini, Sabrina Ugazio, Emanuela Falletti and Letizia Lo Presti Prototyping a GNSS-Based PassiveRadar for UAVs: An Instrument to Classify the WaterContent Feature of Lands doi: 10.3390/s151128287 555
• Fernando Vanegas and Felipe Gonzalez Enabling UAV Navigation with Sensor and Environmental Uncertainty in Cluttered and GPS-Denied Environments doi: 10.3390/s16050666 . 579
• Marc Wehrhan, Philipp Rauneker and Michael Sommer UAV-Based Estimation of Carbon Exports from Heterogeneous Soil Landscapes-A Case Study from the CarboZALF Experimental Area doi: 10.3390/s16020255 . 596
• Inhye Yoon, Seokhwa Jeong, Jaeheon Jeong, Doochun Seo and Joonki Paik
• Wavelength-Adaptive Dehazing Using Histogram Merging-Based Classification for UAV Images doi: 10.3390/s150306633 620
• Jisheng Zhang, Limin Jia, Shuyun Niu, Fan Zhang, Lu Tong and Xuesong Zhou A Space-Time Network-Based Modeling Framework for Dynamic Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Routing in Traffic Incident Monitoring Applications doi: 10.3390/s150613874 637.