Advances in the Remote Sensing Application of Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles (UAV/UGV/USV/UUV)

Dear Colleagues,

The beginning of the 21st century is the era of dynamic growth of unmanned systems. An unmanned system (US) or vehicle (UV) is a vehicle without a person on board. Depending on the environment in which they operate, the following types of unmanned systems can be distinguished: unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as drones, which are in the air; unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) on the ground; unmanned surface vehicle (USV) on the sea surface; and unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) in the water column. Recently, research into the development of unmanned systems has been carried out in the field of autonomous vehicles that operate using Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered navigation and operational software. The dynamically growing technological development of unmanned systems means that they are widely used in many areas of life, as well as for remote sensing.

Remote sensing research using unmanned vehicles is carried out in numerous fields, such as geodesy, geography, geophysics, and most Earth science disciplines (e.g., exploration geophysics, geology, glaciology, hydrology, meteorology, and oceanography). Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Application of remote sensing technologies for environmental monitoring;
• Mobile robot navigation;
• Remote sensing of the environment using unmanned systems;
• Sensors used in unmanned systems;
• Unmanned systems technology.

Dr. Mariusz Specht
Dr. Łukasz Marchel
Guest Editors

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• autonomous vehicle
• drone
• earth observation
• remote sensing
• sensors used in unmanned systems
• unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
• unmanned ground vehicle (UGV)
• unmanned surface vehicle (USV)
• unmanned system (US)
• unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV)