UAVs for Photogrammetry, 3D Modeling, Obtrusive Light and Sky Glow Measurements
A special issue of Drones (ISSN 2504-446X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 16 October 2024 | Viewed by 3749
Special Issue Editors
Interests: unmanned aerial vehicle technology; autonomous navigation; neural networks; non-GNSS navigation; photogrammetry; real-time photogrammetry; computer vision
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Special Issue focuses on new trends in photogrammetry and remote sensing with UAVs. In recent years, there have been a lot of new developments strictly concerning UAVs, but also measurements from these devices in general. New sensors, procedures, and algorithms are being developed which improve the quality of photogrammetric studies, photos, and 3D models. Many new algorithms use neural networks, while continuous miniaturization allows achieving an increasingly better accuracy of measurements using small sensors mounted on UAVs. New measurement procedures are also being developed, and the number of UAV applications is constantly increasing especially in environmental and civil engineering. This Special Issue will gather all types of solutions—technical, procedural, and algorithmic—aiming to improve the quality of photogrammetric studies, 3D models, and remote sensing with UAVs. In addition, we invite papers on new trends in artificial light measurements and photogrammetry at night. Night measurements with UAVs, especially those toward light pollution measurements, are becoming important from an environmental point of view, and in this issue, we will showcase new developments in this area.
Dr. Pawel Burdziakowski
Dr. Katarzyna Bobkowska
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)—technical solutions for remote sensing
- UAV photogrammetry—procedures, technical solutions
- UAVs in civil engineering
- UAVs in environmental engineering
- UAV image georeferencing accuracy
- UAV image quality enhancement
- mobile GNSS RTK camera positioning accuracy
- neural networks for UAV photogrammetry and remote sensing
- sensors for UAV measurements
- algorithms for increasing 3D model quality
- obstructive light pollution UAVs measurements
- UAV photogrammetry at night
- UAV obtrusive light and sky glow measurements
- UAV artificial light measurements
- UAV probes for environmental measurements
- 3D mapping accuracy
