Advancing skyborne technologies and high-resolution satellites for pasture monitoring and improved management: a review

MG Ogungbuyi, C Mohammed, I Ara, AM Fischer… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
The timely and accurate quantification of grassland biomass is a prerequisite for sustainable
grazing management. With advances in artificial intelligence, the launch of new satellites …

Remote sensing from unoccupied aerial systems: Opportunities to enhance Arctic plant ecology in a changing climate

D Yang, BD Morrison, KJ Davidson, J Lamour… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The Arctic is warming at a faster rate than any other biome on Earth, resulting in widespread
changes in vegetation composition, structure and function that have important feedbacks to …

[HTML][HTML] 我国草原恢复与保护的问题与对策

潘庆民, 孙佳美, 杨元合, 刘伟, 李昂… - … 科学院院刊, 2021 - old2022.bulletin.cas.cn
我国草原总面积为392.8 万平方公里, 约占国土面积的40.9%, 是国家生态安全的重要绿色屏障,
也是农牧民赖以生存的主要生产资料. 然而, 自20 世纪80 年代开始, 我国草原发生了大面积 …

Integrating drone imagery with existing rangeland monitoring programs

JK Gillan, JW Karl, WJD van Leeuwen - Environmental monitoring and …, 2020 - Springer
The recent availability of small and low-cost sensor carrying unmanned aerial systems
(UAS, commonly known as drones) coupled with advances in image processing software …

Monitoring forage mass with low-cost UAV data: case study at the Rengen grassland experiment

U Lussem, J Schellberg, G Bareth - PFG–Journal of Photogrammetry …, 2020 - Springer
Monitoring and predicting above ground biomass yield of grasslands are of key importance
for grassland management. Established manual methods such as clipping or rising plate …

Unmanned aerial systems accurately map rangeland condition indicators in a dryland savannah

V Amputu, N Knox, A Braun, S Heshmati, R Retzlaff… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dry savannahs are highly sensitive to climate change and under intense anthropogenic
pressure. Therefore, the methods for assessing their status should be easy and repeatable …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating plant pasture biomass and quality from UAV imaging across Queensland's Rangelands

J Barnetson, S Phinn, P Scarth - AgriEngineering, 2020 - mdpi.com
The aim of this research was to test recent developments in the use of Remotely Piloted
Aircraft Systems or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)/drones to map both pasture quantity as …

Drone-based monitoring to remotely assess a beach nourishment program on Lord Howe Island

BP Kelaher, T Pappagallo, S Litchfield, TE Fellowes - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Beach nourishment is a soft engineering technique that is used to combat coastal erosion.
To assess the efficacy of a beach nourishment program on the northwest coast of Lord Howe …

Issues and solutions on grassland restoration and conservation in China

Q PAN, J SUN, Y YANG, W LIU… - Bulletin of …, 2021 - bulletinofcas.researchcommons.org
The area of grassland in China is about 392.8 million hm2, covering 40.9% of land surface
of China. Grasslands not only serve as important green barriers for national ecological …

A pilot study to estimate forage mass from unmanned aerial vehicles in a semi-arid rangeland

AM DiMaggio, HL Perotto-Baldivieso, JA Ortega-S… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the monitoring and management of
rangelands has exponentially increased in recent years due to the miniaturization of …