Land cover changes mapping in cameron highlands using high resolution satellite and unmanned aerial vehicle imageries by Jumaat, Nor Fatin Hanani

“…This research is undertaken to assess the land use and land cover (LULC) changes occurred in the study area for a period of 12 years (2001-2013) using high resolution optical satellite images (IKONOS and QuickBird) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images from a fixed wing Helang. An object based classification technique was used to classify the satellite images and UAV images into seven LULC classes, namely, forest, agriculture, grass, bare land, urban, water body and areas affected by landslides. …”
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Above ground biomass estimation from UAV high resolution RGB images and LiDAR data in a pine forest in Southern Italy by Maesano M, Santopuoli G, Moresi FV, Matteucci G, Lasserre B, Scarascia Mugnozza G

“…A low-cost AGB estimation method was adopted using a commercial fixed-wing drone equipped with an RGB camera, combined with the canopy information derived by LiDAR and validated by field data. …”
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Design of an Over-Actuated Hexacopter Tilt-Rotor for Landing and Coupling in Power Transmission Lines by Vitor Mainenti Leal Lopes, Leonardo M. Honório, Murillo F. Santos, Antônio A. N. Pancoti, Mathaus F. Silva, Lucas F. Diniz, Paolo Mercorelli

“…A series of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) such as fixed-wing or rotary-wing UAVs, and vehicles that climb on the power transmission line, promise to revolutionize the inspection market. …”
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CHOSEN ASPECTS OF THE PRODUCTION OF THE BASIC MAP USING UAV IMAGERY by M. Kedzierski, A. Fryskowska, D. Wierzbicki, P. Nerc

“…In the research a compact, non-metric camera, mounted on a fixed wing powered by an electric motor was used. The tested area covered flat, agricultural and woodland terrains. …”
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Carbon and ecohydrological priorities in managing woody encroachment: UAV perspective 63 years after a control treatment by Temuulen Ts Sankey, Jackson Leonard, Margaret M Moore, Joel B Sankey, Adam Belmonte

“…Woody encroachment and aboveground carbon are estimated using high resolution multispectral images and photogrammetric data from a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). We then combine the contemporary UAV image-derived estimates with historical records from immediately before and after the treatment to consider long-term trends in woody vegetation cover, aboveground carbon, water yield, and sedimentation. …”
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Integrating Sigmoid Calibration Function into Entropy Thresholding Segmentation for Enhanced Recognition of Potholes Imaged Using a UAV Multispectral Sensor by Sandisiwe Nomqupu, Athule Sali, Adolph Nyamugama, Naledzani Ndou

“…UAV imagery was acquired via the flying of the DJI Matrice 600 (M600) UAV system, with the MicaSense RedEdge imaging sensor mounted on its fixed wing. An endmember spectral pixel denoting pothole feature was selected and used as the base from which spectral radiance patterns of a pothole were analyzed. …”
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Assessing Geomorphic Change in Restored Coastal Dune Ecosystems Using a Multi-Platform Aerial Approach by Zach Hilgendorf, M. Colin Marvin, Craig M. Turner, Ian J. Walker

“…Two different restored coastal foredune sites in Humboldt County, California were monitored between 2016–20 with UAS (quadcopter and fixed-wing), kite aerial photogrammetry (KAP), and terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) platforms. …”
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Boost Precision Agriculture with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Remote Sensing and Edge Intelligence: A Survey by Jia Liu, Jianjian Xiang, Yongjun Jin, Renhua Liu, Jining Yan, Lizhe Wang

“…The major insights observed are as follows: (a) in terms of UAV systems, small or light, fixed-wing or industrial rotor-wing UAVs are widely used in precision agriculture; (b) sensors on UAVs can provide multi-source datasets, and there are only a few public UAV dataset for intelligent precision agriculture, mainly from RGB sensors and a few from multispectral and hyperspectral sensors; (c) DL-based UAV RS methods can be categorized into classification, object detection and segmentation tasks, and convolutional neural network and recurrent neural network are the mostly common used network architectures; (d) cloud computing is a common solution to UAV RS data processing, while edge computing brings the computing close to data sources; (e) edge intelligence is the convergence of artificial intelligence and edge computing, in which model compression especially parameter pruning and quantization is the most important and widely used technique at present, and typical edge resources include central processing units, graphics processing units and field programmable gate arrays.…”
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Morphing concepts in the field of rotorcraft by Dorin Madalin FERARU, Ciprian Marius LARCO, Teodor Lucian GRIGORIE

“…When considering an aircraft, shape changes primarily relate to the wing of a fixed-wing aircraft or the blade of a rotorcraft. The concept of achieving a "smooth" shape change stems from the crucial need for drag reduction and improved flow quality, resulting in improved overall performance. …”
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Aerial abundance estimates for two sympatric dolphin species at a regional scale using distance sampling and density surface modeling by Holly C. Raudino, Phil J. Bouchet, Phil J. Bouchet, Corrine Douglas, Ryan Douglas, Kelly Waples

“…Aerial line transect surveys were flown from a fixed-wing aircraft in the austral winters of 2015, 2016, and 2017 across a total area of 33,420 km2. …”
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BVLOS UAV missions for vegetation mapping in maritime Antarctic by Anna Zmarz, Stein Rune Karlsen, Marlena Kycko, Małgorzata Korczak-Abshire, Izabela Gołębiowska, Izabela Karsznia, Katarzyna Chwedorzewska

“…These include high logistic operation costs, limited research areas, high safety risks, direct human impact, and insufficient resolution of satellite images. Fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle beyond the visual line of sight (UAV BVLOS) missions can bridge the scale gap between field-based observations and full-scale airborne or satellite surveys. …”
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Evaluation of Deep Learning Segmentation Models for Detection of Pine Wilt Disease in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Images by Lang Xia, Ruirui Zhang, Liping Chen, Longlong Li, Tongchuan Yi, Yao Wen, Chenchen Ding, Chunchun Xie

“…However, the performance of such segmentation models has not been thoroughly studied. We used a fixed-wing UAV to collect images from a pine forest in Laoshan, Qingdao, China, and conducted a ground survey to collect samples of infected pines and construct prior knowledge to interpret the images. …”
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Seasonal Phragmites australis classification in Long Point National Wildlife Area wetlands using a remotely piloted aircraft system and random forest machine learning by Morgan Hrynyk, Amir Behnamian, Sarah Banks, Zhaohua Chen, Taylor Harmer, Patrick Kirby, Lori White, Jon Pasher, Jason Duffe

“…RPAS imagery was collected in the spring and fall of 2019 using a fixed-wing RPAS equipped with a visible spectrum camera (eBee X, S.O.D.A. 3D; senseFly) in Long Point, Ontario, Canada. …”
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Identification of Brush Species and Herbicide Effect Assessment in Southern Texas Using an Unoccupied Aerial System (UAS) by Xiaoqing Shen, Megan K. Clayton, Michael J. Starek, Anjin Chang, Russell W. Jessup, Jamie L. Foster

“…Two study sites were flown with an eBee X fixed-wing to collect UAS images with four bands (Green, Red, Red-Edge, and Near-infrared) and ground truth data points pre- and post-herbicide application to study the herbicide effect on brush. …”
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Mid-Term Monitoring of Glacier’s Variations with UAVs: The Example of the Belvedere Glacier by Francesco Ioli, Alberto Bianchi, Alberto Cina, Carlo De Michele, Paolo Maschio, Daniele Passoni, Livio Pinto

“…In order to evaluate annual ice flow velocities and volume variations, six yearly measurements were carried out between 2015 and 2020 on the debris-covered Belvedere Glacier (Anzasca Valley, Italian Alps) with low-cost fixed-wing UAVs and quadcopters. Every year, ground control points and check points were measured with GNSS. …”
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Evaluating the Use of a Thermal Sensor to Detect Small Ground-Nesting Birds in Semi-Arid Environments during Winter by J. Silverio Avila-Sanchez, Humberto L. Perotto-Baldivieso, Lori D. Massey, J. Alfonso Ortega-S., Leonard A. Brennan, Fidel Hernández

“…Aerial wildlife surveys with fixed-wing airplanes and helicopters are used more often than on-the-ground field surveys to cover areas that are both extensive and often inaccessible. …”
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Structural Mapping of Dike-Induced Faulting in Harrat Lunayyir (Saudi Arabia) by Using High Resolution Drone Imagery by Daniele Trippanera, Joël Ruch, Joël Ruch, Luca Passone, Sigurjón Jónsson

“…This widens from ∼2 km in the SSE to ∼5 km in the NNW, showing a well-defined border normal fault to the west but a diffused fracture zone to the east. We conducted a fixed-wing drone survey to create high resolution (∼3.4 cm) ortho-rectified images and DEMs of the western fault and of a portion of the eastern fracture zone to determine the fracture geometry and kinematics. …”
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Design and acoustic shielding prediction of hybrid wing-body aircraft by Ng, Leo Wai-Tsun

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Maintenance cost studies of rotary wing commercial transport aircraft by Ausrotas, Raymond A., Hsin, Chen-Chung., Taneja, Nawal K.

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Target tracking and source seeking using unmanned aerial vehicles with input constraints by Zhu, Senqiang

“…Due to UAV inherent motion constraints, the fixed-wing UAV generally can not stay on top of the ground target. …”
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