A technical study on UAV characteristics for precision agriculture applications and associated practical challenges

N Delavarpour, C Koparan, J Nowatzki, S Bajwa… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The incorporation of advanced technologies into Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
platforms have enabled many practical applications in Precision Agriculture (PA) over the …

AI meets UAVs: A survey on AI empowered UAV perception systems for precision agriculture

J Su, X Zhu, S Li, WH Chen - Neurocomputing, 2023 - Elsevier
Precision Agriculture (PA) promises to boost crop productivity while reducing agricultural
costs and environmental footprints, and therefore is attracting ever-increasing interests in …

Drones for conservation in protected areas: Present and future

J Jiménez López, M Mulero-Pázmány - Drones, 2019 - mdpi.com
Park managers call for cost-effective and innovative solutions to handle a wide variety of
environmental problems that threaten biodiversity in protected areas. Recently, drones have …

Application of drone technologies in surface water resources monitoring and assessment: A systematic review of progress, challenges, and opportunities in the global …

M Sibanda, O Mutanga, VGP Chimonyo, AD Clulow… - Drones, 2021 - mdpi.com
Accurate and timely information on surface water quality and quantity is critical for various
applications, including irrigation agriculture. In-field water quality and quantity data from …

Advancements of remote data acquisition and processing in unmanned vehicle technologies for water quality monitoring: An extensive review

DY Kwon, J Kim, S Park, S Hong - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Regular water quality monitoring is becoming desirable due to the increase in water
pollution caused by both climate change and the generation of industrial chemicals …

Evaluating the variability of urban land surface temperatures using drone observations

J Naughton, W McDonald - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Urbanization and climate change are driving increases in urban land surface temperatures
that pose a threat to human and environmental health. To address this challenge, we must …

Can drones be used to conduct water sampling in aquatic environments? A review

HT Lally, I O'Connor, OP Jensen, CT Graham - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Advancements in drone technology have seen the development of drone-assisted water
sampling payloads resulting in the ability of drones to retrieve water samples and physico …

Configuring mission-specific behavior in a product line of collaborating Small Unmanned Aerial Systems

MN Al Islam, MT Chowdhury, A Agrawal… - Journal of Systems and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In emergency response scenarios, autonomous small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS)
must be configured and deployed quickly and safely to perform mission-specific tasks. In this …

Development of a drone-based thin-film solid-phase microextraction water sampler to facilitate on-site screening of environmental pollutants

JJ Grandy, V Galpin, V Singh, J Pawliszyn - Analytical Chemistry, 2020 - ACS Publications
To simplify on-site water sampling and screening, particularly in hard-to-reach or dangerous
sites, a drone equipped with a hydrophilic–lipophilic balance (HLB), thin-film solid-phase …

Use of drones for the topo-bathymetric monitoring of the reservoirs of the Segura River Basin

M Erena, JF Atenza, S García-Galiano, JA Domínguez… - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
The Segura River Basin (SRB), located in the South East of Spain, has the lowest
percentage of renewable water resources of all the Spanish basins. Therefore, knowledge of …