Aerial surveys of marine mammals are routinely conducted to assess and monitor species' habitat use and population status. In Australia, dugongs (Dugong dugon) are regularly surveyed and long-term datasets have formed the basis for defining habitat of high conservation value and risk assessments of human impacts. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may facilitate more accurate, human-risk free, and...

There are growing demands for detailed and accurate land cover maps in land system research and planning. Macro-scale land cover maps normally cannot satisfy the studies that require detailed land cover maps at micro scales. In the meantime, applying conventional pixel-based classification methods in classifying high-resolution aerial imagery is ineffective to develop high accuracy land-cover m...

Typing the word ‘privacy’ into any search engine yields a virtually endless stream of entries describing the ways in which this basic human right can be violated. There are reports of hackers acquiring credit card information, law enforcement agencies mining social networking sites, and members of the public using drones to take aerial photographs. More recent headlines indicate that voice-acti...

Aerial photographs play a major role in current remote sensing applications. Traditionally such photographs were acquired using airplanes or satellites, and later processed in order to generate a virtual environment (VE). The industrial research project AVIGLE explores novel approaches to multimodal remote sensing by using a swarm of Miniature Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (MUAVs), which are equippe...

Documentation with drawing and photography is one of the most important stages in archaeological excavations surveys. It takes a long time to draw walls by stone during excavations. Carrying out these studies on land that does not belong human habitats, such as underwater, an activity requires extra effort, time, experience. This article will examine possibility plans structures unearthed or de...

A multi-scale UAV aerial image object detection model MS-YOLOv7 based on YOLOv7 was proposed to address the issues of a large number objects and high proportion small that commonly exist in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) image. The new network is developed with multiple head CBAM convolutional attention module extract features at different scales. To solve problem high-density detection, archite...

Remote Sensing: is the collection of information relating to objects without being in physical contact with them. Thus our eyes and ears are remote sensors, and the same is true for cameras and microphones and for many instruments used for all kinds of applications Or, said another way: Remote sensing is the process of acquiring data/information about objects/substances not in direct contact wi...