Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Agricultural and Natural Resources
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2020) | Viewed by 377
Special Issue Editor
Interests: precision agriculture; power machinery; water quality
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Dear colleagues,
Advancements in electronics, sensors, and 3D printing technologies have increased the use of unmanned aerial and ground vehicles for monitoring and collecting samples from agricultural and natural resources. While the majority of the unmanned aerial and ground vehicle applications are for imaging, these vehicles are also used for conducting other tasks. Examples of such applications include in situ assessment and sample collection of water samples from water bodies. For such applications, additional mechanisms are built and mounted on the aerial vehicles to land the UAV on water surfaces, conduct in situ measurements and execute an action, and move to the next sampling point in the flight mission. With additional mechanisms, sensors, and microcontrollers, UAVs make decisions by following various algorithms. This increases the efficiency of UAVs’ limited power sources and extends their coverage in a single mission.
This Special Issue welcomes scientific papers from researchers working in the field of unmanned aerial and ground vehicle applications to agricultural and natural resources. This Special Issue will bring together the applications of unmanned aerial vehicles for remote and in situ sensing and decision making to execute actions such as collection of water, plant, and soil samples.
Dr. Bulent Koc
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- UAV
- decision making
- 3D modeling
- agriculture
- forestry
- natural resources
- water
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