Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Geomatics
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Engineering Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2020) | Viewed by 13905
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geometric and radiometric sensors; sensor fusion; calibration of imageries; signal/image processing; mission planning; navigation and position/orientation; machine learning; simultaneous localization and mapping; regulations and economic impact; agriculture; geosciences; urban area; architecture; monitoring/change detection; education; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
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Interests: unmanned aerial vehicles; natural hazards; engineering geology
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Interests: image orientation and calibration; sensor fusion; dense image matching; metrology; mobile mapping; geoscience
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) has boomed in the last decade, making these flying platforms an instrument for everyday data acquisition in different applications ranging from advanced autonomous navigation to monitoring of environmental parameters. Their flexibility and (relatively) limited costs have made them a valid alternative to traditional measurement techniques, such as land surveying or terrestrial and airborne acquisitions. This has been reflected by the incredible number of contributions in different scientific communities dealing with the use of UAVs.
This Special Issue aims at collecting the most recent developments in the use of UAVs in Geomatics. We welcome submissions dealing with different aspects of the scientific developments in this field, including algorithmic and hardware innovations as well as new methodological best practices. Studies conducted in adjacent domains, such robotics and computer vision, and having the navigation, mapping, and understanding of real world as a main topic are also welcome in this Special Issue.
A list of the relevant topics relevant for this Special Issue includes but is not limited to:
- Image orientation and accurate georeferencing;
- Autonomous navigation and obstacle sense and avoidance;
- Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and visual odometry;
- 3D reconstruction from images and laser sensors;
- 2D and 3D mapping with UAV data;
- Semantic scene understanding from UAV images and videos;
- On board sensors fusion;
- Integration of UAV data with other data sources (LiDAR, airborne, satellite, SAR, etc.);
- New platforms, payloads and instruments for Geomatics;
- Online and real time processing/collaborative and fleet of UAVs applied to Geomatics and Remote Sensing’
- Emerging applications such as the use of UAV for: Search & Rescue, precision farming, natural hazards and environmental monitoring and mapping, change detection, infrastructure monitoring, etc.;
- Technological challenges and new applications of UAVs;
- UAV Regulations.
This Special Issue will also feature selected papers from the UAV-g 2019 conference and the EGU 2019 session on Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems and Geosciences. Authors wishing to have their work considered for this issue, including those not able to present at the conference, should contact the Guest Editors.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Drones.
Dr. Francesco Nex
Dr. Daniele Giordan
Dr. Ewelina Rupnik
Guest Editors
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