Drones for Biodiversity Conservation and Ecological Monitoring
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have already become an affordable and cost-efficient tool to quickly map a targeted area for many emerging applications in the arena of ecological monitoring and biodiversity conservation. Managers, owners, companies, and scientists are using professional drones equipp...
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| author | Mücher, C.A. Díaz-Delgado, Ricardo |
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| description | Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have already become an affordable and cost-efficient tool to quickly map a targeted area for many emerging applications in the arena of ecological monitoring and biodiversity conservation. Managers, owners, companies, and scientists are using professional drones equipped with high-resolution visible, multispectral, or thermal cameras to assess the state of ecosystems, the effect of disturbances, or the dynamics and changes within biological communities inter alia. We are now at a tipping point on the use of drones for these type of applications over natural areas. UAV missions are increasing but most of them are testing applicability. It is time now to move to frequent revisiting missions, aiding in the retrieval of important biophysical parameters in ecosystems or mapping species distributions. This Special Issue shows UAV applications contributing to a better understanding of biodiversity and ecosystem status, threats, changes, and trends. It documents the enhancement of knowledge in ecological integrity parameters mapping, long-term ecological monitoring based on drones, mapping of alien species spread and distribution, upscaling ecological variables from drone to satellite images: methods and approaches, rapid risk and disturbance assessment using drones, mapping albedo with UAVs, wildlife tracking, bird colony and chimpanzee nest mapping, habitat mapping and monitoring, and a review on drones for conservation in protected areas. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-454952023-12-20T18:40:29Z Drones for Biodiversity Conservation and Ecological Monitoring Mücher, C.A. Díaz-Delgado, Ricardo Q1-390 Pinus nigra unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) biological conservation precision flight altitude accuracy multiscale approach low-cost UAV LTER small UAV ecological monitoring Sequoia long-term monitoring albedo image processing vegetation indices Tanzania ground-truth Sentinel-2 biodiversity threats field experiments effective management great apes drone ecological integrity multispectral rice crops conservation protected areas survey response surface aerial survey bird censuses multispectral mapping drones UAS hyperspectral UAV random forest Pinus sylvestris NDVI UAVs Parrot Sequoia supervised classification drone mapping RPAS greenness index image resolution Plegadis falcinellus Motus biodiversity Landsat 8 Sentinel boreal forest phenology LTSER western swamphen Parrot SEQUOIA native grassland forêt Montmorency drought forest regeneration radio-tracking bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have already become an affordable and cost-efficient tool to quickly map a targeted area for many emerging applications in the arena of ecological monitoring and biodiversity conservation. Managers, owners, companies, and scientists are using professional drones equipped with high-resolution visible, multispectral, or thermal cameras to assess the state of ecosystems, the effect of disturbances, or the dynamics and changes within biological communities inter alia. We are now at a tipping point on the use of drones for these type of applications over natural areas. UAV missions are increasing but most of them are testing applicability. It is time now to move to frequent revisiting missions, aiding in the retrieval of important biophysical parameters in ecosystems or mapping species distributions. This Special Issue shows UAV applications contributing to a better understanding of biodiversity and ecosystem status, threats, changes, and trends. It documents the enhancement of knowledge in ecological integrity parameters mapping, long-term ecological monitoring based on drones, mapping of alien species spread and distribution, upscaling ecological variables from drone to satellite images: methods and approaches, rapid risk and disturbance assessment using drones, mapping albedo with UAVs, wildlife tracking, bird colony and chimpanzee nest mapping, habitat mapping and monitoring, and a review on drones for conservation in protected areas. 2021-02-11T11:48:23Z 2021-02-11T11:48:23Z 2020-01-07 09:08:26 2019 book 43233 9783039219810 9783039219803 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/45495 eng application/octet-stream Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1901 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-03921-981-0 10.3390/books978-3-03921-981-0 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783039219810 9783039219803 176 open access |
| spellingShingle | Q1-390 Pinus nigra unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) biological conservation precision flight altitude accuracy multiscale approach low-cost UAV LTER small UAV ecological monitoring Sequoia long-term monitoring albedo image processing vegetation indices Tanzania ground-truth Sentinel-2 biodiversity threats field experiments effective management great apes drone ecological integrity multispectral rice crops conservation protected areas survey response surface aerial survey bird censuses multispectral mapping drones UAS hyperspectral UAV random forest Pinus sylvestris NDVI UAVs Parrot Sequoia supervised classification drone mapping RPAS greenness index image resolution Plegadis falcinellus Motus biodiversity Landsat 8 Sentinel boreal forest phenology LTSER western swamphen Parrot SEQUOIA native grassland forêt Montmorency drought forest regeneration radio-tracking bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general Mücher, C.A. Díaz-Delgado, Ricardo Drones for Biodiversity Conservation and Ecological Monitoring |
| title | Drones for Biodiversity Conservation and Ecological Monitoring |
| title_full | Drones for Biodiversity Conservation and Ecological Monitoring |
| title_fullStr | Drones for Biodiversity Conservation and Ecological Monitoring |
| title_full_unstemmed | Drones for Biodiversity Conservation and Ecological Monitoring |
| title_short | Drones for Biodiversity Conservation and Ecological Monitoring |
| title_sort | drones for biodiversity conservation and ecological monitoring |
| topic | Q1-390 Pinus nigra unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) biological conservation precision flight altitude accuracy multiscale approach low-cost UAV LTER small UAV ecological monitoring Sequoia long-term monitoring albedo image processing vegetation indices Tanzania ground-truth Sentinel-2 biodiversity threats field experiments effective management great apes drone ecological integrity multispectral rice crops conservation protected areas survey response surface aerial survey bird censuses multispectral mapping drones UAS hyperspectral UAV random forest Pinus sylvestris NDVI UAVs Parrot Sequoia supervised classification drone mapping RPAS greenness index image resolution Plegadis falcinellus Motus biodiversity Landsat 8 Sentinel boreal forest phenology LTSER western swamphen Parrot SEQUOIA native grassland forêt Montmorency drought forest regeneration radio-tracking bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general |
| topic_facet | Q1-390 Pinus nigra unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) biological conservation precision flight altitude accuracy multiscale approach low-cost UAV LTER small UAV ecological monitoring Sequoia long-term monitoring albedo image processing vegetation indices Tanzania ground-truth Sentinel-2 biodiversity threats field experiments effective management great apes drone ecological integrity multispectral rice crops conservation protected areas survey response surface aerial survey bird censuses multispectral mapping drones UAS hyperspectral UAV random forest Pinus sylvestris NDVI UAVs Parrot Sequoia supervised classification drone mapping RPAS greenness index image resolution Plegadis falcinellus Motus biodiversity Landsat 8 Sentinel boreal forest phenology LTSER western swamphen Parrot SEQUOIA native grassland forêt Montmorency drought forest regeneration radio-tracking bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general |
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