UAV-supported forest regeneration: Current trends, challenges and implications

M Mohan, G Richardson, G Gopan, MM Aghai, S Bajaj… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Replanting trees helps with avoiding desertification, reducing the chances of soil erosion
and flooding, minimizing the risks of zoonotic disease outbreaks, and providing ecosystem …

Route planning of helicopters spraying operations in multiple forest areas

S Fang, Y Ru, Y Liu, C Hu, X Chen, B Liu - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
It is of great value to research the problem of forest pest and disease control. Currently,
helicopters play an important role in dealing with this problem. However, the spraying route …

The unique value proposition for using drones to map coastal ecosystems

KE Joyce, KC Fickas, M Kalamandeen - Cambridge prisms: coastal …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Coasts are undeniably regions of critical importance for a range of environmental,
sociocultural, and economic reasons. Yet they are also areas of intense anthropogenic …

Establishing the foundation for the global observing system for marine life

EV Satterthwaite, NJ Bax, P Miloslavich… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Maintaining healthy, productive ecosystems in the face of pervasive and accelerating human
impacts including climate change requires globally coordinated and sustained observations …

Evaluating the Utilization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Afforestation

S Sharma, AK Dixit, S Saxena - 2024 International Conference …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles into conservation of wildlife and reforestation initiatives
represents a significant breakthrough in the field of environmental science. This integration …

Monitoring mangrove-based blue carbon ecosystems using UAVs: a review

NA Abu Bakar, WS Wan Mohd Jaafar… - Geocarto …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Blue carbon habitats, including mangrove forests, salt marshes, and seagrass beds, play a
crucial role in sequestering organic carbon, mitigating global warming, and protecting …

Applications of UAV hyperspectral and lidar data for the generation of ultra-resolution imagery of mangrove forests

RDPM Scafutto, G Lassalle… - IGARSS 2022-2022 …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mangrove forests have been suffering with the impact of anthropogenic activities (ie fishing,
deforestation) in the past years. Imaging data with high spatial and spectral resolution is a …

Sources of Error in the Estimation of Aboveground Biomass Carbon Stocks in Mangrove Ecosystems

B Greer - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Mangrove forests are a type of wetland ecosystem found along subtropical and tropical
coasts around the world. True mangrove species are specially adapted to the environments …