Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones have emerged as a ubiquitous and
integral part of our society. They appear in great diversity in a multiplicity of applications for …

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

Coastlines are important basic geographic elements and map** their spatial and attribute
changes can help monitor, model and manage coastal zones. Traditional studies focused on …

Recent advancements in the application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) based remote
sensing (RS) in precision agricultural practices have been critical in enhancing crop health …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly becoming popular due to their use in
many commercial and military applications, and their affordability. The UAVs are equipped …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming integrated into a wide range of modern IoT
applications. The growing number of networked IoT devices generates a large amount of …

This review paper provides insights into optimization strategies for Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAVs) in a variety of surveillance tasks and scenarios. From basic path planning …

The development of light detection and ranging (lidar) technology began in the 1960s,
following the invention of the laser, which represents the central component of this system …

This paper, by critically reviewing different years (from 2010 to 2020) of research activities
performed with Mobile Laser Scanning system, aims to review existing systems and how …

Lately, affordable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-lidar systems have started to appear on
the market, highlighting the need for methods facilitating proper verification of their accuracy …