Advances in remote sensing for sustainable forest management: monitoring and protecting natural resources

Low Cost UAV-based Remote Sensing for Autonomous Wildlife Monitoring

In recent years, developments in unmanned aerial vehicles, lightweight on-board computers, and low-cost thermal imaging sensors offer a new opportunity for wildlife monitoring. In contrast with traditional methods now surveying endangered species to obtain population and location has become more cost-effective and least time-consuming. In this paper, a low-cost UAV-based remote sensing platform...

Advances in forest characterisation, mapping and monitoring through integration of LiDAR and other remote sensing datasets

The diversity of scales and modes in which ground, airborne and spaceborne LiDAR operate has increased opportunities for quantitatively assessing forest structure, biomass and species composition and obtaining more general information on dynamics and ecological/commercial value. However, the level of information extracted can be increased even further by integrating data from other sensor types...

Organization and Management Systems for Providing Sustainable Forest Resources

Preface: Recent Advances in Remote Sensing for Crop Growth Monitoring

This Special Issue gathers sixteen papers focusing on applying various remote sensing techniques to crop growth monitoring. The studies span observations from multiple scales, a combination of model simulations and experimental measurements, and a range of topics on crop monitoring and mapping. This preface provides a brief overview of the contributed papers.

Remote Sensing for Natural Disaster Management

Natural disasters are extreme events within the earth's system that result in death or injury to humans, and damage or loss of valuable goods, such as buildings, communication systems, agricultural land, forest, natural environment etc. The economic losses due to natural disasters have shown an increase with a factor of eight over the past four decades, caused by the increased vulnerability of ...