Survey and Insights into Unmanned Aerial-Vehicle-Based Detection and Documentation of Clandestine Graves and Human Remains

Numerous biological and archaeological studies have demonstrated the legitimacy of remote sensing in anthropology. This article focuses on detecting documenting terrestrial clandestine graves surface remains (CGSR) humans using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), sensors, automatic processing algorithms. CGSR is a problem complex decision making under uncertainty that requires identifijication intelligent reasoning about direct evidence human their environmental fijingerprints. As such, it as much an engineering geospatial anthropology problem. efffort to survey existing work across disciplines provide insights recommendations assist future research. To support our claims, preliminary experiments were performed at Forensic Anthropological Research Facility Texas State University UAVs, hyperspectral imaging, thermal structure from motion. Prior work, experience, results indicate both great potential extreme challenges face CGSR.