Advances in the Remote Sensing Application of Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles (UAV/UGV/USV/UUV) (Second Edition)
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Engineering Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 8
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Interests: global navigation satellite systems; civil engineering; geomatics; navigation; hydrography; mapping; earth observation; geospatial science; geoinformation; spatial analysis; geodesy; applied mathematics
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Dear Colleagues,
The beginning of the 21st century has seen the dynamic growth of unmanned systems. Unmanned systems (USs) or vehicles (UVs) are vehicles without a person on board, and can be classified as follows depending on the environment in which they operate: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, which operate in the air; unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), which operate on the ground; unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), which operate on the sea surface; and unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), which operate 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 dynamic technological development of unmanned systems means that they are used in many areas of life, including 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). This Special Issue welcomes papers on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following:
The 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
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- 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)
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