Feature Papers of Drones. Volume 2 / edited by Diego Gonzalez-Aguilera, Pablo Rodríguez-Gonzálvez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, Pablo, editor.

Gonzalez-Aguilera, Diego, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transfer learning (Machine learning).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (662 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2023.

Summary:

This reprint compiles the articles, communications, and review articles from top researchers describing novel or new cutting-edge designs, developments, and/or applications of unmanned vehicles. This reprint encompasses the key topics related to drone design, communications as well as autonomous Flight and Navigation. Special attention is paid to the drones' applications to environmental and earth sciences, including in agriculture, forestry, water, and marine environments; other innovative applications are also explored including in relation to the field of application, such as the inclusion of new deep learning techniques.

Contents:

Preface to "Feature Papers of Drones-Volume II" ix

Pasture Productivity Assessment under Mob Grazing and Fertility Management Using Satellite and UAS Imagery 1

A Review of Unmanned System Technologies with Its Application to Aquaculture Farm Monitoring and Management 19

The Relationship between Drone Speed and the Number of Flights in RFID Tag Reading for Plant Inventory 61

Comparison of RGB and Multispectral Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Monitoring Vegetation Coverage Changes on a Landslide Area 73

Quantifying the Spatial Variability of Annual and Seasonal Changes in Riverscape Vegetation Using Drone Laser Scanning 87

UAV-Based Classification of Cercospora Leaf Spot Using RGB Images 109

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Wildland Fires: Sensing, Perception, Cooperation and Assistance 125

Spray Deposition on Weeds (Palmer Amaranth and Morningglory) from a Remotely Piloted Aerial Application System and Backpack Sprayer 151

An Approach for Route Optimization in Applications of Precision Agriculture Using UAVs 169

High Resolution Geospatial Evapotranspiration Mapping of Irrigated Field Crops Using

Multispectral and Thermal Infrared Imagery with METRIC Energy Balance Model 193

Vegetation Extraction Using Visible-Bands from Openly Licensed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery 211

Comparing UAS LiDAR and Structure-from-Motion Photogrammetry for Peatland Mapping

and Virtual Reality (VR) Visualization 227

Application of Drone Technologies in Surface Water Resources Monitoring and Assessment: A Systematic Review of Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities in the Global South 253

Monitoring Dynamic Braided River Habitats: Applicability and Efficacy of Aerial Photogrammetry from Manned Aircraft versus Unmanned Aerial Systems 275

Assessing the Potential of Remotely-Sensed Drone Spectroscopy to Determine Live Coral Cover on Heron Reef 293

The Use of UAVs for the Characterization and Analysis of Rocky Coasts 313

Modeling Streamflow and Sediment Loads with a Photogrammetrically Derived UAS Digital Terrain Model: Empirical Evaluation from a Fluvial Aggregate Excavation Operation 331

Temperature Profiling of Waterbodies with a UAV-Integrated Sensor Subsystem 49

Implementing Mitigations for Improving Societal Acceptance of Urban Air Mobility 359

The Use of Drones in the Spatial Social Sciences 379

On the Dominant Factors of Civilian-Use Drones: A Thorough Study and Analysis of Cross-Group Opinions Using a Triple Helix Model (THM) with the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) 391

Drone Control in AR: An Intuitive System for Single-Handed Gesture Control, Drone Tracking, and Contextualized Camera Feed Visualization in Augmented Reality 423

Demystifying the Differences between Structure-from-MotionSoftware Packages for Pre-Processing Drone Data 449

Determining the Optimal Number of Ground Control Points for Varying Study Sites through Accuracy Evaluation of Unmanned Aerial System-Based 3D Point Clouds and Digital Surface Models 471

Drone Magnetometry in Mining Research. An Application in the Study of Triassic Cu-Co-Ni Mineralizations in the Estancias Mountain Range, Almer´ıa (Spain) 491

A Practical Validation of Uncooled Thermal Imagers for Small RPAS 503

Advanced Leak Detection and Quantification of Methane Emissions Using sUAS 531

Numerical Fluid Dynamics Simulation for Drones' Chemical Detection 573

Convolutional Neural Networks for Classification of Drones Using Radars 587

Ice Detection on Aircraft Surface Using Machine Learning Approaches Based on Hyperspectral and Multispectral Images 605

Deep Learning Classification of 2D Orthomosaic Images and 3D Point Clouds for Post-Event Structural Damage Assessment 631.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, viewed March 23, 2023).

ISBN:

3-0365-6190-0