With the booming development of information technology and the growing demand for
remote sensing data, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing technology has …

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 …

Nowadays, emerging technologies, such as long-range transmitters, increasingly
miniaturized components for positioning, and enhanced imaging sensors, have led to an …

Illegal logging poses a significant threat to environmental conservation, contributing to
deforestation, ecosystem disruption, and economic losses. Traditional detection methods …

Torrential rainfall can generate landslides, flash floods, and debris flows which might
become disasters, causing loss of life and damage to property and infrastructure. To …

Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS; ie 'drones') provide new opportunities for data collection
in ecology, wildlife biology and conservation. Yet, several studies have documented …

Mangrove forests, one of the world's most endangered ecosystems, are also some of the
most difficult to access. This is especially true along the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, where …

Assessing, implementing and monitoring ecosystem restoration can be a labor intensive
process, often short term (< 3 years), and potentially destructive to the habitat. Advances in …

Map** and identification of mangrove tree species have always played a crucial role in
mangrove ecosystem conservation efforts, and several attempts have been made using …

We introduce a cost-effective reflectance calibration method for small unmanned aerial
vehicle (sUAV) images using ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) greyscale reference panels. The …