Vertical evaluation of air quality improvement by urban forest using unmanned aerial vehicles

Autonomous Vertical Recovery of Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Reconfigurable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been developing dramatically due to wars and miniaturisation of technology, which has made the UAV industry a very lucrative business. Research organisations have been funded by various research committees or military groups to push UAV developments at a very fast pace. Although these UAVs are high in capability, they are limited to a single use application ...

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

This report presents a technology warning assessment based on National Academies' methodology. The particular technology area analyzed relates to fully autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (AUAVs) from the perspective of the United States government with the objective to assess AUAV technology with the goal of strongly enabling, promoting and increasing economic growth. Focus The scope of this r...

Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (uav) for Urban Tree Inventories

In contrast to standard aerial imagery, unmanned aerial systems (UAS) utilize recent technological advances to provide an affordable alternative for imagery acquisition. Increased value can be realized through clarity and detail providing higher resolution (2-5 cm) over traditional products. Many natural resource disciplines such as urban forestry will benefit from UAS. Tree inventories for ris...

Precision wildlife monitoring using unmanned aerial vehicles.

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) represent a new frontier in environmental research. Their use has the potential to revolutionise the field if they prove capable of improving data quality or the ease with which data are collected beyond traditional methods. We apply UAV technology to wildlife monitoring in tropical and polar environments and demonstrate that UAV-derived counts of colony nesting ...