On the Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Environmental Monitoring
dc.contributor.author | Manfreda, Salvatore | |
dc.contributor.author | McCabe, Matthew | |
dc.contributor.author | Miller, Pauline | |
dc.contributor.author | Lucas, Richard | |
dc.contributor.author | Pajuelo Madrigal, Victor | |
dc.contributor.author | Mallinis, Giorgos | |
dc.contributor.author | Ben Dor, Eyal | |
dc.contributor.author | Helman, David | |
dc.contributor.author | Estes, Lyndon | |
dc.contributor.author | Ciraolo, Giuseppe | |
dc.contributor.author | Müllerová, Jana | |
dc.contributor.author | Tauro, Flavia | |
dc.contributor.author | de Lima, M. | |
dc.contributor.author | de Lima, João | |
dc.contributor.author | Maltese, Antonino | |
dc.contributor.author | Frances, Felix | |
dc.contributor.author | Caylor, Kelly | |
dc.contributor.author | Kohv, Marko | |
dc.contributor.author | Perks, Matthew | |
dc.contributor.author | Ruiz-Pérez, Guiomar | |
dc.contributor.author | Su, Zhongbo | |
dc.contributor.author | Vico, Giulia | |
dc.contributor.author | Toth, Brigitta | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-25T08:14:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-03-19T09:05:22Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-11-25T08:14:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-04-20 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Manfreda S, McCabe M, Miller P, Lucas R, Pajuelo Madrigal V, et al. (2018) On the Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Environmental Monitoring. Remote Sensing 10: 641. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs10040641. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2072-4292 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/rs10040641 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.20944/preprints201803.0097.v1 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10754/627353 | |
dc.description.abstract | Environmental monitoring plays a central role in diagnosing climate and management impacts on natural and agricultural systems; enhancing the understanding of hydrological processes; optimizing the allocation and distribution of water resources; and assessing, forecasting, and even preventing natural disasters. Nowadays, most monitoring and data collection systems are based upon a combination of ground-based measurements, manned airborne sensors, and satellite observations. These data are utilized in describing both small- and large-scale processes, but have spatiotemporal constraints inherent to each respective collection system. Bridging the unique spatial and temporal divides that limit current monitoring platforms is key to improving our understanding of environmental systems. In this context, Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) have considerable potential to radically improve environmental monitoring. UAS-mounted sensors offer an extraordinary opportunity to bridge the existing gap between field observations and traditional air- and space-borne remote sensing, by providing high spatial detail over relatively large areas in a cost-effective way and an entirely new capacity for enhanced temporal retrieval. As well as showcasing recent advances in the field, there is also a need to identify and understand the potential limitations of UAS technology. For these platforms to reach their monitoring potential, a wide spectrum of unresolved issues and application-specific challenges require focused community attention. Indeed, to leverage the full potential of UAS-based approaches, sensing technologies, measurement protocols, postprocessing techniques, retrieval algorithms, and evaluation techniques need to be harmonized. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the existing research and applications of UAS in natural and agricultural ecosystem monitoring in order to identify future directions, applications, developments, and challenges. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | The present work has been funded by the COST Action CA16219 “HARMONIOUS—Harmonization of UAS techniques for agricultural and natural ecosystems monitoring”. B. Tóth acknowledges financial support by the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NRDI) under grant KH124765. J. Müllerová was supported by projects GA17-13998S and RVO67985939. Isabel and João de Lima were supported by project HIRT (PTDC/ECM-HID/4259/2014—POCI-01-0145-FEDER016668). We would like to thank reviewers for their insightful comments on the paper, as these comments led us to an improvement of the work. | |
dc.publisher | MDPI AG | |
dc.relation.url | http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/4/641 | |
dc.rights | This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Environmental monitoring | |
dc.subject | Precision agriculture | |
dc.subject | Remote sensing | |
dc.subject | River monitoring | |
dc.subject | Soil moisture | |
dc.subject | UAS | |
dc.subject | Vegetation indices | |
dc.title | On the Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Environmental Monitoring | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.contributor.department | Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division | |
dc.contributor.department | Environmental Science and Engineering Program | |
dc.contributor.department | Water Desalination and Reuse Research Center (WDRC) | |
dc.identifier.journal | Remote Sensing | |
dc.eprint.version | Publisher's Version/PDF | |
dc.contributor.institution | Dipartimento delle Culture Europee e del Mediterraneo: Architettura, Ambiente, Patrimoni Culturali (DiCEM), Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Matera, 75100, , Italy | |
dc.contributor.institution | The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH, , United Kingdom | |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3DB, , United Kingdom | |
dc.contributor.institution | Svarmi ehf., árleyni 22, Reykjavík, 112, , Iceland | |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, 67100, , Greece | |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Geography and Human Environment, Tel Aviv University (TAU), Tel Aviv, 6997801, , Israel | |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Geography and the Environment, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900, , Israel | |
dc.contributor.institution | Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA, 01610, , United States | |
dc.contributor.institution | Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale, Aerospaziale, dei Materiali, University of Palermo, Palermo, 90128, , Italy | |
dc.contributor.institution | Department GIS and Remote Sensing, Institute of Botany, The Czech Acad. Sciences, Průhonice, 252 43, , , Czech Republic | |
dc.contributor.institution | Centro per l'Innovazione Tecnologica e lo Sviluppo del Territorio (CINTEST), Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, 01100, , Italy | |
dc.contributor.institution | Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, 3000-370, , , Portugal | |
dc.contributor.institution | Research Group of Hydrological and Environmental Modelling (GIHMA), Research Institute ofWater and Environmental Engineering, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, València, 46022, , Spain | |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106-3060, , United States | |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Geology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 50090, , Estonia | |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, , United Kingdom | |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Crop Production Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, 750 07, , Sweden | |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Water Resources in Faculty of Geo-Information and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, 7522 NB, , Netherlands | |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Crop Production and Soil Science, University of Pannonia, Keszthely, 8360, , Hungary | |
dc.contributor.institution | Institute for Soil Sciences and Agricultural Chemistry, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, H-1022, , , Hungary | |
kaust.person | McCabe, Matthew | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2018-06-13T10:52:10Z |