Unmanned Aerial Systems for Monitoring Soil, Vegetation, and River Systems

Remote Sensing of the Environment using Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) provides an overview of how unmanned aerial systems have revolutionized our capability to monitor river systems, soil characteristics, and related processes at unparalleled spatio-temporal resolutions. This capability has enabled enhancements in our capacity to describe water cycle and hydrological processes. The book includes guidelines, technical advice, and practical experience to support practitioners and scientists in increasing the efficiency of monitoring with the help of UAS. The book contains field survey datasets to use as practical exercises, allowing proposed techniques and methods to be applied to real world case studies. Includes a summary of technical UAS issues allowing readers to focus on how the exact technology fits their scientific question Provides specific applications enabling readers to understand the benefits and threats within the field Includes a comprehensive literature review in each chapter, allowing readers to know the key players and research in the field INDICE: 1. Introduction 2. Recent Advances in UAS technologies 3. Protocols for UAS-based observations 4. Structure from Motion (SfM) for 3D mapping 5. Methods and Algorithms for Vegetation mapping 6. Monitoring Agricultural Ecosystems 7. Soil texture mapping with UAS 8. Soil Moisture Content (SMC) monitoring using UAS 9. River monitoring with UAS 10. Geometric correction and stabilization of images collected by UAS in river monitoring 11. Monitoring of river channel dynamics by UAS 12. Tools and datasets for UAS applications 13. A lesson learned from the current UAS activities and future notes

• ISBN: 978-0-323-85283-8
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés