Basic monitoring of the marine environment is crucial for the early warning and assessment
of marine hydrometeorological conditions, climate change, and ecosystem disasters. In …

It is estimated that EU cultural heritage (CH) buildings represent 30% of the total existing
stock. Nevertheless, all actions in terms of refurbishment need a deep knowledge based on …

This paper represents the result of the IAEG C35 Commission “Monitoring methods and
approaches in engineering geology applications” workgroup aimed to describe a general …

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images have gained extensive attention in varying fields,
and the Structure from Motion (SfM) technique has become the gold standard for aerial …

With the increasing role that unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are playing in data collection
for environmental studies, two key challenges relate to harmonizing and providing …

Park managers call for cost-effective and innovative solutions to handle a wide variety of
environmental problems that threaten biodiversity in protected areas. Recently, drones have …

Within the scope of a changing energy market, wave energy has yet to reach a level of
commercial viability that enables it to become competitive with alternative energy sources …

Abstract Structure-from-motion (SfM) algorithms greatly facilitate the production of detailed
topographic models from photographs collected using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) …

Research on unmanned aerial vehicles is growing as they are becoming less expensive
and more available than before. The applications span a large number of areas and include …

Abstract UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or “drones”) for routine survey applications at the
coast have come of age, and are no longer 'the latest thing'more suited to the specialist …