Applications of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Best Practices and Case Studies

ISBN-13: 9780367199241 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 290 str.

J. B. Sharma

Opis

Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems can access hazardous or inaccessible areas during disaster events and provide rapid response. This is the first book that brings together the best practices of sUAS applied to a broad range of issues in high spatial resolution mapping projects. The case studies included in this book are sUAS based projects.

Spis treści

1. sUAS Data Accuracy in Photogrammetric Workflows

Qassim Abdullah and Riadh Munjy

2. Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Thematic Map Accuracy Assessment

Russell G. Congalton and Benjamin T. Fraser

3. Multiuser Concepts and Workflow Replicability in sUAS Applications

Jason A. Tullis, Katie Corcoran, Richard Ham, Bandana Kar, and Malcolm Williamson

4. The sUAS Educational Frontier: Mapping an Educational Pathway for the Future Workforce

John A. McGee III and James B. Campbell

5. Federal Government Applications of UAS Technology

Bruce Quirk and Barry Haack

6. sUAS for Wildlife Conservation – Assessing Habitat Quality of the Endangered Black-Footed Ferret

Donna M. Delparte, Kristy Bly, Travis Stone, Sarah Olimb, Michael Kinsey, Matthew Belt, and Thomas Calton

7. Multi-View, Deep Learning, and Contextual Analysis: Promising Approaches for sUAS Land Cover Classification

Tao Liu and Amr Abd-Elrahman

8. UAS for Nature Conservation – Monitoring Invasive Species

Jana Müllerová

9. Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) and Structure from Motion for Identifying, Documenting, and Monitoring Cultural and Natural Resources

Marguerite Madden, Thomas Jordan, Sergio Bernardes, Cari Goetcheus, Kristen Olson, and David Cotten

10. New Insights Offered by UAS for River Monitoring

Salvatore Manfreda, Silvano Fortunato Dal Sasso, Alonso Pizarro, and Flavia Tauro

11. The Campus as a High Spatial Resolution Mapping Laboratory – Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) Data Acquisition, Analytics, and

Educational Issues

J.B. Sharma, J. Zachary Miller, Brian Duran, and Lance Hundt

12. Flying UAVs in Constrained Environments: Best Practices for Flying within Complex Forest Canopies

Ramesh Sivanpillai, Gregory K. Brown, Brandon S. Gellis

O autorze

Dr. J.B. Sharma is a Professor and Assistant Department Head of Physics at the University of North Georgia. He holds the ‘Eminent Scholar of Teaching and Learning’ endowed chair since 2009 and has been a faculty member in the University System of Georgia for the past 34 years. He has a B.S in Physics from Jacksonville state University and a M.S. in Physics from the University of Georgia. He has a PhD in Geography from the University of Georgia with a specialization in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Science. His is very interested in physics and remote sensing literacy issues in education and novel curricular development that promotes these disciplines. He was the CASE/Carnegie Georgia Professor of the Year in 1999. He received the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) 2015 Leidos-Estes Memorial teaching excellence award and was elected as a Fellow of the American Association of Physics Teachers in 2018. He serves on the Board of Directors of AmericaView which is a national consortium promoting remote sensing education, research and outreach. His research interest are physics and remote sensing education, small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) applications and Geographic Object Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA).