Forestry remote sensing from unmanned aerial vehicles: A review focusing on the data, processing and potentialities

N Guimarães, L Pádua, P Marques, N Silva, E Peres… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Currently, climate change poses a global threat, which may compromise the sustainability of
agriculture, forestry and other land surface systems. In a changing world scenario, the …

Recent advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles forest remote sensing—A systematic review. Part II: Research applications

R Dainelli, P Toscano, SF Di Gennaro, A Matese - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
Forest sustainable management aims to maintain the income of woody goods for
companies, together with preserving non-productive functions as a benefit for the …

Recent advances in unmanned aerial vehicle forest remote sensing—A systematic review. Part I: A general framework

R Dainelli, P Toscano, SF Di Gennaro, A Matese - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
Natural, semi-natural, and planted forests are a key asset worldwide, providing a broad
range of positive externalities. For sustainable forest planning and management, remote …

UAV‐derived estimates of forest structure to inform ponderosa pine forest restoration

A Belmonte, T Sankey, JA Biederman… - Remote Sensing in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Restoring forest ecosystems has become an increasingly high priority for land managers
across the American West. Millions of hectares of forest are in need of drastic yet strategic …

Multi-temporal vineyard monitoring through UAV-based RGB imagery

L Pádua, P Marques, J Hruška, T Adão, E Peres… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
This study aimed to characterize vineyard vegetation thorough multi-temporal monitoring
using a commercial low-cost rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with a …

Acquisition of forest attributes for decision support at the forest enterprise level using remote-sensing techniques—A review

P Surový, K Kuželka - Forests, 2019 - mdpi.com
In recent decades, remote sensing techniques and the associated hardware and software
have made substantial improvements. With satellite images that can obtain sub-meter …

Mapping forest structure using UAS inside flight capabilities

K Kuželka, P Surový - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
We evaluated two unmanned aerial systems (UASs), namely the DJI Phantom 4 Pro and DJI
Mavic Pro, for 3D forest structure mapping of the forest stand interior with the use of close …

Characterizing seedling stands using leaf-off and leaf-on photogrammetric point clouds and hyperspectral imagery acquired from unmanned aerial vehicle

M Imangholiloo, N Saarinen, L Markelin, T Rosnell… - Forests, 2019 - mdpi.com
Seedling stands are mainly inventoried through field measurements, which are typically
laborious, expensive and time-consuming due to high tree density and small tree size. In …

Digital aerial photogrammetry for uneven-aged forest management: Assessing the potential to reconstruct canopy structure and estimate living biomass

S Jayathunga, T Owari, S Tsuyuki - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Scientifically robust yet economical and efficient methods are required to gather information
about larger areas of uneven-aged forest resources, particularly at the landscape level, to …

An automatic UAV based segmentation approach for pruning biomass estimation in irregularly spaced chestnut orchards

SF Di Gennaro, C Nati, R Dainelli, L Pastonchi… - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
The agricultural and forestry sector is constantly evolving, also through the increased use of
precision technologies including Remote Sensing (RS). Remotely biomass estimation …