UAV Sensors for Environmental Monitoring

The rapid development and growth of UAVs as a remote sensing platform as well as advances in the miniaturization of instrumentation and data systems are catalyzing a renaissance in remote sensing in a variety of fields and disciplines from precision agriculture to ecology atmospheric research and disaster response. This Special Issue was open for submissions that highlight advances in the development and use of sensors deployed on UAVs. Topics include but were not limited to: - Optical multi-spectral hyperspectral laser and optical SAR technologies - Gas analyzers and sensors - Artificial intelligence and data mining based strategies from UAVs - UAV onboard data storage transmission and retrieval - Collaborative strategies and mechanisms to control multiple UAVs and sensor networks - UAV sensor applications: precision agriculture; pest detection forestry mammal species tracking search and rescue; target tracking the monitoring of the atmosphere; chemical biological and natural disaster phenomena; fire prevention flood prevention; volcanic monitoring pollution monitoring micro-climates and land use