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Active technological development has fuelled rapid growth in the number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) platforms being deployed around the globe. Novel UAV platforms, UAV-based sensors, robotic sensing and imaging techniques, the development of processing workflows, as well as the capacity of ultra-high temporal and spatial resolution data, provide both opportunities and challenges that will allow engineers and scientists to address novel and important scientific questions in UAV and sensor design, remote sensing and environmental monitoring.This work features papers on UAV sensor design, improvements in UAV sensor technology, obstacle detection, methods for measuring optical flow, target tracking, gimbal influence on the stability of UAV images, augmented reality tools, segmentation in digital surface models for 3D reconstruction, detection, location and grasping objects, multi-target localization, vision-based tracking in cooperative multi-UAV systems, noise suppression techniques , rectification for oblique images, two-UAV communication system, fuzzy-based hybrid control algorithms, pedestrian detection and tracking as well as a range of atmospheric, geological, , agricultural, ecological, reef, wildlife, building and construction, coastal area coverage, search and rescue (SAR), water plume temperature measurements, aeromagnetic and archaeological surveys applications

UAV-Based Remote Sensing --- drones --- aerial robotics --- environmental science --- remote sensing --- UAV images --- augmented reality tools --- segmentation in digital surface models for 3D reconstruction --- detection --- location and grasping objects --- multi-target localization --- vision-based tracking in cooperative multi-UAV systems --- noise suppression techniques --- rectification for oblique images --- two-UAV communication system --- fuzzy-based hybrid control algorithms --- pedestrian detection and tracking as well as a range of atmospheric --- geological --- agricultural --- ecological --- reef --- wildlife --- building and construction --- coastal area coverage --- search and rescue (SAR) --- water plume temperature measurements --- aeromagnetic and archaeological surveys

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The rapid development and growth of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as a remote sensing platform, as well as advances in the miniaturization of instrumentation and data systems, have resulted in an increasing uptake of this technology in the environmental and remote sensing science communities.Although tough regulations across the globe may still limit the broader use of UAVs, their use in precision agriculture, ecology, atmospheric research, disaster response biosecurity, ecological and reef monitoring, forestry, fire monitoring, quick response measurements for emergency disaster, Earth science research, volcanic gas sampling, monitoring of gas pipelines, mining plumes, humanitarian observations and biological/chemo-sensing tasks continues to increase.This book provides a forum for high-quality peer-reviewed papers that broaden the awareness and understanding of UAV developments, applications of UAVs for remote sensing, and associated developments in sensor technology, data processing and communications, and UAV system design and sensing capabilities.The book covers the following topics:• improvements in UAV sensor technology;• UAV sensor design;• descriptions of processing algorithms applied to UAV-based imagery datasets;• the use of optical, multi-spectral, hyperspectral, laser, and optical SAR technologies onboard UAVs;• Artificial intelligence and data mining-based strategies from UAV-acquired datasets;• UAV onboard data storage, transmission, and retrieval;• multiple platform UAV, AUV, and ground robot networks;• UAV sensor applications including: precision agriculture, construction, mining, pest detection, forestry, wildlife tracking, atmosphere, wildfire monitoring and prevention, reef monitoring, Earth science research pollution monitoring, micro-climates, land use precision agriculture, ecology, atmospheric research, quick response measurements for emergency disaster.

UAV-Based Remote Sensing --- drones --- aerial robotics --- environmental science --- remote sensing --- UAV images --- augmented reality tools --- segmentation in digital surface models for 3D reconstruction --- detection --- location and grasping objects --- multi-target localization --- vision-based tracking in cooperative multi-UAV systems --- noise suppression techniques --- rectification for oblique images --- two-UAV communication system --- fuzzy-based hybrid control algorithms --- pedestrian detection and tracking as well as a range of atmospheric --- geological --- agricultural --- ecological --- reef --- wildlife --- building and construction --- coastal area coverage --- search and rescue (SAR) --- water plume temperature measurements --- aeromagnetic and archaeological surveys