Accuracy assessment of digital surface models from unmanned aerial vehicles' imagery on glaciers

S Gindraux, R Boesch, D Farinotti - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for photogrammetric surveying has recently
gained enormous popularity. Images taken from UAVs are used for generating Digital …

Determining the optimum number of ground control points for obtaining high precision results based on UAS images

VE Oniga, AI Breaban, F Statescu - Proceedings, 2018 - mdpi.com
Ground control points (GCPs) are used in the process of indirectly georeferencing
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) images. A minimum of three ground control points (GCPs) …

Intra-season crop height variability at commercial farm scales using a fixed-wing UAV

MG Ziliani, SD Parkes, I Hoteit, MF McCabe - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Monitoring the development of vegetation height through time provides a key indicator of
crop health and overall condition. Traditional manual approaches for monitoring crop height …

Determining the suitable number of ground control points for UAS images georeferencing by varying number and spatial distribution

VE Oniga, AI Breaban, N Pfeifer, C Chirila - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Currently, products that are obtained by Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) image processing
based on structure-from-motion photogrammetry (SfM) are being investigated for use in high …

Accuracy analysis of a dam model from drone surveys

E Ridolfi, G Buffi, S Venturi, P Manciola - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
This paper investigates the accuracy of models obtained by drone surveys. To this end, this
work analyzes how the placement of ground control points (GCPs) used to georeference the …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating surface mass balance patterns from unoccupied aerial vehicle measurements in the ablation area of the Morteratsch–Pers glacier complex …

L Van Tricht, P Huybrechts, J Van Breedam… - The …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
The surface mass balance (SMB) of a glacier provides the link between the glacier and the
local climate. For this reason, it is intensively studied and monitored. However, major efforts …

Spatio-temporal estimation of biomass growth in rice using canopy surface model from unmanned aerial vehicle images

CO Peprah, M Yamashita, T Yamaguchi, R Sekino… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The awareness of spatial and temporal variations in site-specific crop parameters, such as
aboveground biomass (total dry weight:(TDW), plant length (PL) and leaf area index (LAI) …

Accurate ortho-mosaicked six-band multispectral UAV images as affected by mission planning for precision agriculture proposes

FJ Mesas-Carrascosa, I Clavero Rumbao… - … journal of remote …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Weed mapping at very early phenological stages of crop and weed plants for site-specific
weed management can be achieved by using ultra-high spatial and high spectral resolution …

Modelling glacier topography in Antarctica using unmanned aerial survey: assessment of opportunities

DP Bliakharskii, IV Florinsky… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
We discuss the application of unmanned aerial systems (UASs) and UAS-derived data to
model glacier topography for detecting and analysing slow and rapid changes in glacier …

Spatio-temporal evaluation of plant height in corn via unmanned aerial systems

S Varela, Y Assefa, PV Vara Prasad… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Detailed spatial and temporal data on plant growth are critical to guide crop management.
Conventional methods to determine field plant traits are intensive, time-consuming …