Materials
UAV based remote Sensing - A Brief Overview
Open-Source UAV
David Benowitz gives an overview of the major commercial Open Source UAV systems.
Introduction to Zotero
Zotero Quick Start (3 videos, 15 minutes)
Low cost drones in applied science
A scoping review showing how drone applications can be structured across mapping, search and rescue, transportation, and training.
Review of UAV based research
A recent review of UAS applications in landscape ecology, covering major themes, sensors, processing, spatial analysis, and emerging opportunities.
UAV in Environmental Science
A broad review of UAV remote sensing covering platforms, data types, workflows, and major application domains.
Autonomous Flights Made Easy
Legal Guidelines
Flight planning requires compliance with a number of more or less clear legal regulations.
Planning and Running a Mission - Workflow Options
Getting an idea how to practically plan and perform a UAV mapping mission with Litchi Hub, QGroundControl, and uavRmp.
uavRmp - Adapt Your Planning
The uavRmp package is designed for UAV autonomous mission planning for monitoring flights of low cost drones based on R.
Litchi Hub - Current DJI Mission Planning Workflow
Litchi Hub is the current low-budget baseline workflow for many DJI mapping missions, including area mapping, 3D planning, and terrain-aware mission preparation.
Creating High Quality Products
Drone Mapping Software Quality Comparison
The evaluation of different software packages.
Drone Mapping Software Costs Comparison
Overview of the static calculated economic costs of drone data processing software.
Scientific UAV Hardware
Open-Source UAV
David Benowitz gives an overview of the major commercial Open Source UAV systems.
Review of UAV based research
A recent review of UAS applications in landscape ecology, covering major themes, sensors, processing, spatial analysis, and emerging opportunities.
Analysis of high resolution aerial data
The basic Idea of OBIA
A short introduction in Object Based Image Analysis.
The basic Idea of Deep Learning
A short introduction in Deep Learning.
A review of Object-based image analysis (OBIA) in (UAV) remote sensing
An overview of OBIA especially for land-cover mapping purposes using remote-sensing imagery.
Deep learning versus Object-based Image Analysis (OBIA) in weed mapping of UAV imagery
A quantitative comparison of OBIA and deep learning approaches for weed mapping in UAV imagery.
An applied comparison of Machine Learning (ML) versus Deep Learning (DL) approaches using UAV Imagery
An article on the practical impacts and tradeoffs of applying DL and ML to an applied research task.
Cloud Compare
3D point cloud and mesh processing software.