Potential of multispectral imaging technology for assessment coniferous forests bitten by a bark beetle in Central Bulgaria by Stoyanova Marina, Kandilarov Alexander, Koutev Vesselin, Nitcheva Olga, Dobreva Polya

“…The multispectral camera test near the town of Kalofer, Bulgaria in August 2017, showed the good capabilities of remote-piloted aircraft for observation and mapping of large areas in highly intersected areas. …”
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Development of rapid and low cost archaeological site mapping using photogrammetric technique by Mohd. Azhar, Noor Aniqah, Ahmad, Anuar

“…UAV is one of the great alternatives to replace piloted aircraft and with combination of non -metric camera, thus it can be applied for small area such as cultural heritage building/ archeological site area. …”

ATC Separation Assurance for RPASs and Conventional Aircraft in En-Route Airspace by Javier Alberto Pérez-Castán, Álvaro Rodríguez-Sanz, Victor Fernando Gómez Comendador, Rosa María Arnaldo Valdés

“…Remotely-piloted aircraft systems (RPASs) present interesting and complex challenges for air traffic management. …”
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RPAS AND TLS TECNIQUES FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY: THE CASE STUDY OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF ERACLEA MINOA (ITALY) by M. Lo Brutto, R. Sciortino, A. Garraffa

“…The application of two highly versatile recording systems, the TLS (Terrestrial Laser Scanning) and the RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft System), allowed the Eraclea Minoa site to be documented in high resolution and with high accuracy. …”
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Accuracy Assessment of Cultural Heritage Models Extracting 3D Point Cloud Geometric Features with RPAS SfM-MVS and TLS Techniques by Alessandra Capolupo

“…The proposed approach was separately applied on two high-quality 3D point clouds of the All Saints’ Monastery of Cuti (Bari, Southern Italy), generated using two competing survey techniques: Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) Structure from Motion (SfM) and Multi View Stereo (MVS) techniques and Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS). …”
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Experimentally Determining Optimal Conditions for Mapping Forage Fish with RPAS by Nicola R. Houtman, Jennifer Yakimishyn, Mike Collyer, Jennifer Sutherst, Cliff L. K. Robinson, Maycira Costa

“…RPAS (Remotely piloted aircraft systems, i.e., drones) present an efficient method for mapping schooling coastal forage fish species that have limited distribution and abundance data. …”
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Statistical process control and mapping accuracy standards applied to aerial surveys by Vinícius Bitencourt Campos Calou, Adunias dos Santos Teixeira, José Adriano da Silva, Márcio Regys Rabelo de Oliveira, Ícaro Vasconcelos do Nascimento

“…ABSTRACT Remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) are established in the market as a powerful tool for acquiring aerial images and facilitating mapping for various purposes. …”
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Novel approach to enhance coastal habitat and biotope mapping with drone aerial imagery analysis by João Gama Monteiro, Jesús L. Jiménez, Francesca Gizzi, Petr Přikryl, Jonathan S. Lefcheck, Ricardo S. Santos, João Canning-Clode

“…Here we explore integrating aerial surveys from a low-cost Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) with concurrent underwater surveys to deliver a novel approach to coastal monitoring. …”
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AUTONOMOUS AIRSHIP EQUIPPED BY MULTI-SENSOR MAPPING PLATFORM by J. Jon, B. Koska, J. Pospíšil

“…This accuracy is lower than for conventional measurements, but significantly higher than the scanning system carried by piloted aircraft. In terms of properties (accuracy, speed of data collection) our system is close to the terrestrial mobile scanning systems, which has disadvantage in the lack of availability in hard to reach locations.…”
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Navigating the skies: examining the FAA’s remote identification rule for unmanned aircraft systems by Abhishek Phadke, Josh Boyd, F. Antonio Medrano, Michael Starek

“…While US governing agencies retain the use of the word UAS for now, the International Civil Aviation Organization terminology is remotely piloted aircraft systems. The FAA describes the RID implementation as a “Digital license plate” for all UAS flying in the United States airspace. …”
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Comparison of visual and acoustic surveys for the detection and dynamic management of North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) in Canada by Valentina Ceballos, Christopher Taggart, Hansen Johnson

“…Survey transits by acoustic (Slocum gliders) and visual (aircraft, vessels, and Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems) platforms were simulated using representative platform movements and detection functions. …”
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The Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems in Marine Mammal Research by Lorenzo Fiori, Ashray Doshi, Emmanuelle Martinez, Mark B. Orams, Barbara Bollard-Breen

“…Unmanned aerial systems (UAS), commonly referred to as drones, are finding applications in several ecological research areas since remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) technology has ceased to be a military prerogative. …”
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Evaluation of the Water Conditions in Coffee Plantations Using RPA by Sthéfany Airane dos Santos, Gabriel Araújo e Silva Ferraz, Vanessa Castro Figueiredo, Margarete Marin Lordelo Volpato, Marley Lamounier Machado, Vânia Aparecida Silva

“…High-resolution images were obtained using a remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) equipped with a multispectral sensor. …”
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Automating Drone Image Processing to Map Coral Reef Substrates Using Google Earth Engine by Mary K. Bennett, Nicolas Younes, Karen Joyce

“…High-resolution imagery gathered from remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS or drones) is an inexpensive alternative; however, processing drone imagery for analysis is time-consuming and complex. …”
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Audio-Based Aircraft Detection System for Safe RPAS BVLOS Operations by Jorge Mariscal-Harana, Víctor Alarcón, Fidel González, Juan José Calvente, Francisco Javier Pérez-Grau, Antidio Viguria, Aníbal Ollero

“…For the Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) market to continue its current growth rate, cost-effective ‘Detect and Avoid’ systems that enable safe beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations are critical. …”
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High-throughput phenotyping to detect anthocyanins, chlorophylls, and carotenoids in red lettuce germplasm by Andressa Alves Clemente, Gabriel Mascarenhas Maciel, Ana Carolina Silva Siquieroli, Rodrigo Bezerra de Araujo Gallis, Lucas Medeiros Pereira, Jéssyca Gonçalves Duarte

“…We calculated vegetation indices by using images of the plant canopy obtained from a remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) together with a red, green, and near-infrared band camera. …”
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UAV-based approach to extract topographic and as-built information by utilising the OBIA technique by Sibaruddin, Hairie Ilkham, Mohd Shafri, Helmi Zulhaidi, Pradhan, Biswajeet, Haron, Nuzul Azam

“…This technique could replace the current procedure that utilises piloted aircraft and satellite images for data acquisition and reduce the time for digitising each feature that represents land cover for urban mapping.…”
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Prediction of Training Cost and Difficulty for Aircraft-Type Transition Based on Similarity Assessment by Kang Cao, Yongjie Zhang, Jianfei Feng

“…These not only offer airlines technological and fuel efficiency advantages but also present the challenge of how to conduct pilots’ aircraft-type transition training efficiently and economically. …”
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Accuracy of cultural heritage 3D models by RPAS and terrestrial photogrammetry by M. Bolognesi, A. Furini, V. Russo, A. Pellegrinelli, P. Russo

“…The combined use of high-resolution digital images taken from ground as well as from RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems) have significantly increased the potential of close range digital photogrammetry applications in Cultural Heritage surveying and modeling. …”
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Investigating the thermal physiology of Critically Endangered North Atlantic right whales Eubalaena glacialis via aerial infrared thermography by GL Lonati, DP Zitterbart, CA Miller, P Corkeron, CT Murphy, MJ Moore

“…Combined with advancements in remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS, commonly ‘drones’), infrared thermography (IRT) is being increasingly used to detect and count marine mammals and study their physiology. …”
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