Lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles will revolutionize spatial ecology

An Emperor Penguin Population Estimate: The First Global, Synoptic Survey of a Species from Space

(2012) Peter T. Fretwell et al.   PLoS One

Mapping radiation interception in row-structured orchards using 3D simulation and high-resolution airborne imagery acquired from a UAV

(2012) M. L. Guillen-Climent et al.   PRECISION AGRICULTURE

Dynamics, stability, and control analyses of flapping wing micro-air vehicles

(2012) Christopher T. Orlowski et al.   PROGRESS IN AEROSPACE SCIENCES

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a ... Spy?

(2012) D. Mackenzie   SCIENCE

A Flapping of Wings

(2012) D. Mackenzie   SCIENCE

Point Cloud Generation from Aerial Image Data Acquired by a Quadrocopter Type Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and a Digital Still Camera

(2012) Tomi Rosnell et al.   SENSORS

Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Remote Sensing and Scientific Research: Classification and Considerations of Use

(2012) Adam C. Watts et al.   Remote Sensing

Development of a UAV-LiDAR System with Application to Forest Inventory

(2012) Luke Wallace et al.   Remote Sensing

Using digital repeat photography and eddy covariance data to model grassland phenology and photosynthetic CO2 uptake

(2011) Mirco Migliavacca et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Spatially-Averaged Temperature Structure Parameter Over a Heterogeneous Surface Measured by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

(2011) A. C. van den Kroonenberg et al.   BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY

Bumble bee species' responses to a targeted conservation measure depend on landscape context and habitat quality

(2011) C. Carvell et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Small-Scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Environmental Remote Sensing: Challenges and Opportunities

(2011) Perry J. Hardin et al.   GIScience & Remote Sensing

NIR-Green-Blue High-Resolution Digital Images for Assessment of Winter Cover Crop Biomass

(2011) E. Raymond Hunt et al.   GIScience & Remote Sensing

Fine-scale bird monitoring from light unmanned aircraft systems

(2011) FRANCESC SARDÀ-PALOMERA et al.   IBIS

The use of stereoscopic images taken from a microdrone for the documentation of heritage – An example from the Tuekta burial mounds in the Russian Altay

(2011) Marijn Hendrickx et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

An Unmanned Aircraft System for Automatic Forest Fire Monitoring and Measurement

(2011) Luis Merino et al.   JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & ROBOTIC SYSTEMS

Fluorescence, temperature and narrow-band indices acquired from a UAV platform for water stress detection using a micro-hyperspectral imager and a thermal camera

(2011) P.J. Zarco-Tejada et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Ground-Based Optical Measurements at European Flux Sites: A Review of Methods, Instruments and Current Controversies

(2011) Manuela Balzarolo et al.   SENSORS

Assessing biodiversity in forests using very high-resolution images and unmanned aerial vehicles

(2011) Stephan Getzin et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The NASA SIERRA science demonstration programme and the role of small–medium unmanned aircraft for earth science investigations

(2011) Matt Fladeland et al.   Geocarto International

Mini-UAV-Borne LIDAR for Fine-Scale Mapping

(2010) Yi Lin et al.   IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Atmospheric profiling with the UAS SUMO: a new perspective for the evaluation of fine-scale atmospheric models

(2010) Stephanie Mayer et al.   METEOROLOGY AND ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS

The Ikhana unmanned airborne system (UAS) western states fire imaging missions: from concept to reality (2006–2010)

(2010) V. G. Ambrosia et al.   Geocarto International

Remote Sensing of Vegetation Structure Using Computer Vision

(2010) Jonathan P. Dandois et al.   Remote Sensing

Texture and Scale in Object-Based Analysis of Subdecimeter Resolution Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Imagery

(2009) A.S. Laliberte et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Thermal and Narrowband Multispectral Remote Sensing for Vegetation Monitoring From an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

(2009) J. Berni et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Evaluation of an Unmanned Airborne System for Monitoring Marine Mammals

(2009) William R. Koski et al.   AQUATIC MAMMALS

Lidar: shedding new light on habitat characterization and modeling

(2008) Kerri T Vierling et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Assessment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Imagery for Quantitative Monitoring of Wheat Crop in Small Plots

(2008) Camille Lelong et al.   SENSORS