Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or remotely piloted aircraft systems are new platforms that
have been increasingly used over the last decade in Europe to collect data for forest …

Ecologists require spatially explicit data to relate structure to function. To date, heavy
reliance has been placed on obtaining such data from remote‐sensing instruments mounted …

We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first demonstration of coherent solid-state light
detection and ranging (LIDAR) using optical phased arrays in a silicon photonics platform …

Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) is presently in continuous development at a rapid pace.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or more extensively Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or drones, have become popular tools for practitioners
and researchers alike. Recent years have seen a significant increase in UAV uses for many …

Vegetation structural complexity (VSC)—the three‐dimensional distribution of plants within
an ecosystem—is an important ecological trait. To date, research has focused primarily on …

Distribution of land cover has a profound impact on the climate and environment; map**
the land cover patterns from global, regional to local scales are important for scientists and …

High spatial resolution three-dimensional (3D) measurements of vegetation by remote
sensing are advancing ecological research and environmental management. However …

Long-term ecological monitoring has contributed substantially towards advancements in
theoretical and applied ecology. However, the costs to maintain a long-term monitoring site …

We present the development of a low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Light Detecting and
Ranging (UAV-LiDAR) system and an accompanying workflow to produce 3D point clouds …