Characterisation and airborne deployment of a new counterflow virtual impactor inlet by T. Shingler, S. Dey, A. Sorooshian, F. J. Brechtel, Z. Wang, A. Metcalf, M. Coggon, J. Mülmenstädt, L. M. Russell, H. H. Jonsson, J. H. Seinfeld

“…The CVI was deployed on the Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely Piloted Aircraft Studies (CIRPAS) Twin Otter for thirty flights during E-PEACE to study aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions off the central coast of California in July and August 2011. …”
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DOCUMENTATION OF HISTORICAL UNDERGROUND OBJECT IN SKORKOV VILLAGE WITH SELECTED MEASURING METHODS, DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION by A. Dlesk

“…Then the 3D model of object has been created and compound with cadastral data, orthophoto, historical maps and digital surface model which was made by photogrammetric method using remotely piloted aircraft system. Then the measuring has been realized with ground penetrating radar. …”
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Fotogrammetria diretta con RPAS by Filiberto Chiabrando, Andrea Lingua, Marco Piras

“…Nowadays, the RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems) or UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) are often used, with onboard calibrated digital camera for photogrammetric purpose such as DTM and DSM, orthophotos and map realization etc., combining the digital images with a minimum sufficient number of ground control points using semiautomatic image-matching techniques combined with traditional bundle-block approach (Barazzetti et al, 2012;. …”
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Fotogrammetria diretta con RPAS by Filiberto Chiabrando, Andrea Lingua, Marco Piras

“…Nowadays, the RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems) or UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) are often used, with onboard calibrated digital camera for photogrammetric purpose such as DTM and DSM, orthophotos and map realization etc., combining the digital images with a minimum sufficient number of ground control points using semiautomatic image-matching techniques combined with traditional bundle-block approach (Barazzetti et al, 2012;. …”
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The AIDSS Module for Data Acquisition in Crisis Situations and Environmental Protection by Andrija Krtalić, Milan Bajić, Tamara Ivelja, Ivan Racetin

“…The module has been designed, produced, improved, used and operationally tested and validated on several platforms (helicopters, remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) and a blimp), with various sensors and acquisition units (Global Positioning System (GPS) and inertial measurement unit) in a variety of combinations for additional data acquisition from deep inside a suspected hazardous area. …”
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DAAMSIM: A simulation framework for establishing detect and avoid SYSTEM requirements by Iryna Borshchova, Kristopher Ellis

“…Performance requirements for detect, alert, and avoid (DAA) systems for remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) are under development by many regulatory agencies and standards bodies. …”
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Remote Estimation of Target Height from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Images by Andrea Tonini, Paula Redweik, Marco Painho, Mauro Castelli

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The possibility landslide area at lojing, Gua Musang using [UAV image] / Muhamad Farhan Abd Rahman by Abd Rahman, Muhamad Farhan

“…UAV is a remotely piloted aircraft that can be used to collect series of high resolution images from which it is possible to create Digital Terrain Model (DTM) of a landslide. …”
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A demand forecasting model for urban air mobility in Chengdu, China by Wenqiu Qu, Jie Huang, Chenglong Li, Xiaohan Liao

“…The successful application of new technologies such as remotely piloted aircraft systems, distributed electric propulsion systems, and automatic control systems on electric vertical take-off and landing(eVTOL) aircraft has prompted Urban Air Mobility (UAM) to be mentioned frequently. …”
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University of Kentucky measurements of wind, temperature, pressure and humidity in support of LAPSE-RATE using multisite fixed-wing and rotorcraft unmanned aerial systems by S. C. C. Bailey, M. P. Sama, C. A. Canter, C. A. Canter, L. F. Pampolini, Z. S. Lippay, T. J. Schuyler, T. J. Schuyler, J. D. Hamilton, J. D. Hamilton, S. B. MacPhee, S. B. MacPhee, I. S. Rowe, C. D. Sanders, V. G. Smith, V. G. Smith, C. N. Vezzi, H. M. Wight, H. M. Wight, J. B. Hoagg, M. I. Guzman, S. W. Smith

“…<p>In July 2018, unmanned aerial systems (UASs) were deployed to measure the properties of the lower atmosphere within the San Luis Valley, an elevated valley in Colorado, USA, as part of the Lower Atmospheric Profiling Studies at Elevation – a Remotely-piloted Aircraft Team Experiment (LAPSE-RATE). Measurement objectives included detailing boundary layer transition, canyon cold-air drainage and convection initiation within the valley. …”
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UAVIMALS: THE "OPEN" REMOTE SENSING SYSTEM FOR SURFACE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS by F. Vacatello, S. Roccella, A. Vannini

“…In particular, airborne laser scanning technologies from small remotely piloted aircraft are rapidly developing towards increasingly high-performance solutions for the investigation of archaeological evidence hidden by vegetation or more or less substantial soil deposits. …”
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Slope stability and rockfall assessment of volcanic tuffs using RPAS with 2-D FEM slope modelling by Á. Török, Á. Barsi, G. Bögöly, T. Lovas, Á. Somogyi, P. Görög

“…A RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft System) was used to collect images which were processed by Pix4D mapper (structure from motion technology) to generate a point cloud and mesh. …”
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Deep Learning with Northern Australian Savanna Tree Species: A Novel Dataset by Andrew J. Jansen, Jaylen D. Nicholson, Andrew Esparon, Timothy Whiteside, Michael Welch, Matthew Tunstill, Harinandanan Paramjyothi, Varma Gadhiraju, Steve van Bodegraven, Renee E. Bartolo

“…The classification of savanna woodland tree species from high-resolution Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) imagery is a complex and challenging task. …”
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RPA POSITIONING ERROR INFLUENCE ON CLOSE RANGE PHOTOGRAMMETRY FOR INDUSTRIAL INSPECTION by M. Machado, G. Marcellino, J. D. Salazar, D. J. Regner, P. Buschinelli, J. M. Santos, C. Marinho, T. C. Pinto

“…As industrial climbing for inspection is expensive, extremely dangerous and time consuming, qualitative visual inspection with Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS), also known as drones, are being successfully applied for remote inspection of offshore flares and risers in a much safer, quicker, and cheaper way. …”
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Vegetation Indices Applied to Suborbital Multispectral Images of Healthy Coffee and Coffee Infested with Coffee Leaf Miner by Luana Mendes dos Santos, Gabriel Araújo e Silva Ferraz, Diego Bedin Marin, Milene Alves de Figueiredo Carvalho, Jessica Ellen Lima Dias, Ademilson de Oliveira Alecrim, Mirian de Lourdes Oliveira e Silva

“…The study was conducted in two distinct locations: At a farm, where the camera was coupled to a remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) flying at a 3 m altitude from the soil surface; and the second location, in a greenhouse, where the images were obtained manually at a 0.5 m altitude from the support of the plant vessels, in which only healthy plants were located. …”
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Advanced Processing of Multiplatform Remote Sensing Imagery for the Monitoring of Coastal and Mountain Ecosystems by Javier Marcello, Francisco Eugenio, Consuelo Gonzalo-Martin, Dionisio Rodriguez-Esparragon, Ferran Marques

“…In this work, multispectral and hyperspectral data recorded by sensors, onboard satellites, aircrafts and remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS), have been used for the sustainable management of natural resources. …”
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University of Nebraska unmanned aerial system (UAS) profiling during the LAPSE-RATE field campaign by A. Islam, A. Shankar, A. Houston, C. Detweiler

“…<p>This paper describes the data collected by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) as part of the field deployments during the Lower Atmospheric Process Studies at Elevation – a Remotely-piloted Aircraft Team Experiment (LAPSE-RATE) flight campaign in July 2018. …”
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Spatial Variability of the Lower Atmospheric Boundary Layer over Hilly Terrain as Observed with an RPAS by Joan Cuxart, Burkhard Wrenger, Blazenka Matjacic, Larry Mahrt

“…The operation of a Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) over a hilly area in northern Germany allows inspection of the variability of the profiles of temperature, humidity, and wind speed next to a small hill. …”
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Um Modelo Matemático para Mosaicagem de Imagens Digitais Baseado em uma Abordagem Ponto-a-Reta by Francisco Pedro Soares de Lima, Daniel Rodrigues dos Santos

“…O resultado obtido é um mosaico de imagens digitais derivadas de um RPA (Remotely Piloted Aircraft) com transformação geométrica coincidente entre feições registradas em diferentes imagens.…”
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Detecting the Spatial Variability of Seagrass Meadows and Their Consequences on Associated Macrofauna Benthic Activity Using Novel Drone Technology by Subhash Chand, Barbara Bollard

“…Therefore, this research tested the performance of the VIS and VIS+NIR sensors from proximal low altitude remotely piloted aircraft system (RPAS) to detect fine-scale seasonal seagrass variability using spectral indices and a supervised machine learning classification technique. …”
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