Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Feb 6, 2023
Recent advances in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), mini and mobile sensors, and GeoAI (a blend of geospatial and artificial intelligence (AI) research) are the main highlights among agricultural innovations to improve crop productivity and thus secur...
Science robotics
Jan 18, 2023
The protection and restoration of the biosphere is crucial for human resilience and well-being, but the scarcity of data on the status and distribution of biodiversity puts these efforts at risk. DNA released into the environment by organisms, i.e., ...
Scientific reports
Jan 18, 2023
Imagery from drones is becoming common in wildlife research and management, but processing data efficiently remains a challenge. We developed a methodology for training a convolutional neural network model on large-scale mosaic imagery to detect and ...
Science robotics
Dec 21, 2022
Last-mile transportation of human donor lungs in a densely populated urban environment has been made possible with drones.
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 16, 2022
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), also known as drones have been used for a variety of reasons and the commercial drone market growth is expected to reach remarkable levels in the near future. However, some drone users can mistakenly or intentionally f...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 15, 2022
In underwater environments, ensuring people's safety is complicated, with potentially life-threatening outcomes, especially when divers have to work in deeper conditions. To improve the available solutions for working with robots in this kind of envi...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Nov 3, 2022
This article proposes Persistence Administered Collective Navigation (PACNav) as an approach for achieving the decentralized collective navigation of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms. The technique is based on the flocking and collective navigati...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 2, 2022
Exploration is an important aspect of autonomous robotics, whether it is for target searching, rescue missions, or reconnaissance in an unknown environment. In this paper, we propose a solution to efficiently explore the unknown environment by unmann...
PeerJ
Oct 17, 2022
BACKGROUND: Seagrass beds are essential habitats in coastal ecosystems, providing valuable ecosystem services, but are threatened by various climate change and human activities. Seagrass monitoring by remote sensing have been conducted over past deca...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Sep 16, 2022
Human action recognition and detection from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, has emerged as a popular technical challenge in recent years, since it is related to many use case scenarios from environmental monitoring to search and rescue. I...