As part of the sustainable future vision, sustainable agriculture has become an essential
pillar of the food security strategies formulated by the Dubai Government. Therefore, the …

The main objective of this study was to develop and test a framework that can be used by
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) operators with varying technical backgrounds to estimate …

The development of small unmanned aerial vehicles and advances in sensor technology
have made consumer digital cameras suitable for the remote sensing of vegetation. In this …

Vegetation indices are used in precision agriculture to estimate crop aboveground biomass
(AGB) and, in turn, to quantify crop needs. However, crop species and development stage …

In agricultural research involving unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery, the quality of
measurements is often benchmarked against ground measurements. This study adopted a …

Unmanned aerial vehicles are suited to various photogrammetry and remote sensing
missions. Such platforms are equipped with various optoelectronic sensors imaging in the …

Remote sensing-assisted monitoring of forest health entails methods that can provide up-to-
date and accurate information on decline and mortality of individual trees, while maintaining …

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in agriculture is a relatively new and rapidly
expanding concept. By using UAVs equipped with multispectral near infrared sensors …

Dubai's groundwater wells have become at risk of contamination, over-extraction, and over-
irrigation for the past two decades. Thus, the declining water quality and modest irrigation …