On the use of unmanned aerial systems for environmental monitoring

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2018, Pages

  Manfreda, Salvatore ^a   McCabe, Matthew F ^b   Miller, Pauline E ^c   Lucas, Richard ^d   Madrigal, Victor Pajuelo ^e   Mallinis, Giorgos ^f   Dor, Eyal Ben ^g   Helman, David ^h   Estes, Lyndon ⁱ   Ciraolo, Giuseppe ^j   Müllerová, Jana ^k   Tauro, Flavia ^l   de Lima, M Isabel ^m   de Lima, João L M P ^m   Maltese, Antonino ^j   Frances, Felix ⁿ   Caylor, Kelly ^o   Kohv, Marko ^p   Perks, Matthew ^q   Ruiz Pérez, Guiomar ^r   Su, Zhongbo ^s   Vico, Giulia ^r   Toth, Brigitta ^t,u   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e Svarmi ehf   (Iceland)

^f DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^g TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^h BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

ⁱ CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^k INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^l UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^m UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

ⁿ UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^q NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^r SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^s UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^t INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^u UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

more..

Author keywords

Environmental monitoring; Precision agriculture; Remote sensing; River monitoring; Soil moisture; UAS; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANTENNAS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; MOISTURE CONTROL; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SPACE OPTICS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); WATER RESOURCES;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; POST-PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; RIVER MONITORING; SPACEBORNE REMOTE SENSING; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CONSTRAINTS; VEGETATION INDEX;

MONITORING;

EID: 85045989454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10040641     Document Type: Review

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