A LiDAR-centric approach for reliable UAV navigation

Fu Zhang

Multi-sensor Fusion SLAM from the Nadir View for UAV Localization and Mapping

Yawen Li, George Vosselman, Francesco Nex

Fast Point Ranking - Robust Cloud Voxelization and Denoising for Lidar Odometry and Mapping in Adverse Weather Conditions

Eugeniu Vezeteu, Heikki Hyyti, Ville Kyrki, Juha Hyyppä

Evaluating the performance of a lidar-based autonomous flying system for flying inside forest

Aleksi Viljami Karhunen, Teemu Hakala, Väinö Karjalainen, Eija Honkavaara

Low-cost Extrinsic Calibration Between LIDAR and Thermal Camera for Indoor Mapping

Benjamin Ronald van Manen, Ville Lehtola, Abeje Yenehun Mersha, Francesco Nex

Physiological assessment of vegetation using airborne platforms: 25 years of progress in hyperspectral methods

Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada

Hyperspectral drone images indicate that green shoulder indices are robust in pre-emergence detection of spruce bark beetle infestation across spatial and temporal scales

Luiz Henrique Elias Cosimo, Eva Lindberg, Henrik Persson, Jonas Bohlin, Langning Huo

Deriving structural and biochemical crop traits from one UAV sensor: Investigating a multiband VNIR/SWIR imaging system for crop trait monitoring

Alexander Jenal, Andreas Bolten, Hubert Hüging, Jens Bongartz, Georg Bareth

Mapping individual spruces with multispectral drone

Jere Johannes Kaivosoja, Samuli Launiainen

Differentiating Acute and Chronic Stress in Norway Spruce Using Hyperspectral and Thermal Remote Sensing in Experimental Plots.

Rastislav Jakus, Miroslav Blazenec, Matus Pivovar, Jana Maresova, Vivek Singh, Aleksandr Karpov, Natalie Korolyova

Detecting Root Rot Infected Norway Spruce Trees Using Multispectral and LiDAR UAV Data

Gustav Boman, Basam Dahy, Esra Sengun, Johanna Witzell, Johan E.S. Fransson

Chlorophyll-a and Turbidity estimation using UAV imagery and machine learning in a tropical eutrophic reservoir

Daniel H. C. Salim, Caio C. S. Mello, Gabriel Pereira, Raian V. Maretto, Frederico S. Machado, Camila C. Amorim

A Multiview UAV Imagery-Based Method for Assessing Spruce Tree Health at the Individual Tree Level

Alva Selina Anttonen, Axel Päivänsalo, Emma Turkulainen, Raquel Alves de Oliveira, Kirsi Karila, Niko Koivumäki, Roope Näsi, Eija Honkavaara

Determining the Amount of Crop Residue Cover Using Image Analysis

Mikael Aleksi Änäkkälä, Roope Rantanen, Antti Lajunen

Applying UAV-based crop height to monitor biomass, N-concentration, and N-uptake in winter wheat

Georg Bareth, Christoph Hütt, Alexander Jenal, Andreas Bolten, Nora Tilly, Hubert Hüging

Mapping Boreal Forest Vitality Using Drone-Based Multispectral Time-Series and Object-Based Classification

Basam Dahy, Esra Sengun, Johanna Witzell, Johan E.S. Fransson

Evaluation of forage grass biomass estimation models using multispectral drone imaging across multiple sites

Raquel Alves de Oliveira, Roope Näsi, Jonas Edström, Joel Pitkänen, Panu Korhonen, Oiva Niemeläinen, Niko Koivumäki, Jere Kaivosoja, Eija Honkavaara

UAV-assisted Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation of Apples under Occlusions in Orchard

Kaiwen Wang, Lammert Kooistra, Wensheng Wang, João Valente

Remote Sensing Upside Down: Exploring the Potential of Ground-Based Multispectral Cameras for Tree Crown Monitoring

Mona Goebel, Lukas Wolf, Federik Packwitz, Dorota Iwaszczuk

UAV and AI for large-scale monitoring of the effects of climate change on mountain lake areas: the ACLIMO cross-border cooperation project

Chiara Graziani, Andrea Maria Lingua, Francesca Matrone, Alessandra Spadaro

Marine Debris Monitoring on Uninhabited Islands Using UAV-Based 3D Modeling

Sung-Joo Yoon, Tae-Ho Kim

Assessment of smoothing and scale change effects on aquatic emergent vegetation in high spatial resolution image segmentation

Leticia Mayumi Matsuda, Nilton Nobuhiro Imai, Adilson Berveglieri

Integrating UAS, Computer Vision and AI for Targeted Management of Invasive Insect Pests in Vineyards

Andrea Maria Lingua, Alessio Martino, Francesca Gallitto, Stefania Manca, Paolo Maschio, Valeria Longhi, Filiberto Chiabrando, Marco Grella

Optimizing high-resolution multi-view drone imaging for detecting foreign grains in gluten-free oat production fields

Roope Näsi, Raquel Alves de Oliveira, Stefan Rua, Ehsan Khoramshahi, Axel Päivänsalo, Oiva Niemeläinen, Eija Honkavaara, Markku Niskanen

Comparative Analysis of YOLOv8 and YOLOv11 on Tree Detection Using UAV RGB and Laser Scanning Data

Esra Sengun, Samet Aksoy, Elif Sertel, Johan E.S. Fransson

Individual Tree Species Classification in a Mediterranean Ecosystem using UAV-Acquired Multispectral Images and Machine Learning

Alessandra Spadaro, Andrea Maria Lingua, Filiberto Chiabrando

Tree stem diameter estimation using inexpensive UAV photogrammetric data and Monte Carlo methods

Borja García-Pascual, Carlos Martín-Cortés, Xin Zhou, Evgeny Lopatin, Mauricio Acuna, Kalle Kärhä

Assessment of tree detection and segmentation pipelines using Terrestrial Laser Scanning data in orange orchards

Letícia Ferrari Castanheiro, Mariana Batista Campos, Matheus Ferreira Silva, Rahuan Miguel Silva, Renato César Santos, Mauricio Galo, Antonio Maria Garcia Tommaselli

Autonomous BVLOS UAV Operations: From Research to Large-Scale Real-World Deployment

Antonios Tsourdos

Hydrogen-Powered Autonomy: Scaling BVLOS UAV Operations in Practice

Kelluu Oy

Swarm Intelligence and Systems Thinking: Finding Common Ground for the Engineering of Drone Swarms Solutions

Hannu Karvonen, Marjoriikka Ylisiurua, Arto Wallin, Fabrice Saffre, Hanno Hildmann, Vadim Kramar, Sebastian Coffeng

How the engineering of Swarming Behaviors could be drawing on Social Sciences

Hanno Hildmann, Regina Nockerts, Sebastian Coffeng, Hannu Karvonen, Johan van der Heuvel, Ricardo van der Pluijm, Fabrice Saffre

A Collaborative GIS for Planning of Urban Drone Launch and Landing Site Locations

Miloš Mladenović, Atiullah Saif, Eija Honkavaara, Pyry Kettunen, Mikko Rönneberg, Anssi Jussila, Leo Niemi, Miia Farstad

Drone based analysis of nocturnal light pollution

Görres Grenzdörffer

Cold Region Building Inspection using UAV-based Three-dimensional Reconstruction

Nicholas Chodura, Derek Boase, Joshua Woods, Melissa Greeff

IDENTIFICATION OF WASTE MATERIALS IN SEMI-CONTROLLED TEST SITE USING UAV THERMAL AND MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES

Hassan Ali Makkawi Gassim, Vincenzo Di Pietra, Marco Piras

Exploring the Potential of Super-Resolution for Crack Analysis in UAV Facade Orthomosaics of Small Bridges

Dahye Jang, Hyunsoo Park, Euiik Jeon

ResQDrone: Autonomous Indoor Quadcopter for Multi-Layered Mapping in Crisis and Disaster Management Scenarios

Marco Cella, Jürgen Biber, Pierrick Bournez, Jules Salzinger, Verena Widhalm, Francesco d'Apolito, Felix Bruckmüller, Christoph Sulzbachner, Phillipp Fanta-Jende

Breaklines and Mass Points

Arttu Soininen

Addressing GNSS Vulnerabilities in AAM: A Multi-Modal UAV Testbed for Redundant and Reliable Navigation

Felix Rocco Matzke, Tushar Jayesh Barot, Shreeja Sridharan, Nikolaus Ammann, Christoph Kessler, Hans-Gerd Maas, Frank H. P. Fitzek, Anette Eltner

Under-canopy UAV Solutions for Forest Inventory – Challenges and Opportunities

Xinlian Liang, Guangzu Liu, Xintong Dou

Autonomous Drone Navigation in Forest Environments Using Deep Learning

Guglielmo Del Col, Väinö Karjalainen, Teemu Hakala, Eija Honkavaara

Precise georeferencing of RGB and multispectral drone images without ground control points

José Gonçalves, Ana Bio, Manuel Meyer

Under-Canopy UAV Global Path Planning for Tree DBH Estimation Using LiDAR

Yang Chen, Shuhang Zhang, Qian Sun, Hao Xiong, Wuming Zhang

ORBIT: Optimized Routing for Bridge Inspection Toolkit. An open-source UAS flight path planning tool for comprehensive bridge inspections under realistic constraints

Erkki Tobias Bartczak, Maarten Bassier, Maarten Vergauwen

On Voxel-Based Sampling of Planar Surface Areas from Photogrammetric UAV Data

Petri Rönnholm, Matti T. Vaaja

An Automated Framework for Cadastral Parcel Adjustment Using UAV Orthophotos, SAM, and ICP

Deni Suwardhi, Muhammad Ihsan, Ratri Widyastuti, Nabila Sofia Eryan Putri, Sella Lestari Nurmaulia, Andri Hernandi

UAS for Landscape and Architectural Survey: An Innovative Interdisciplinary Approach of Learning by Doing in the Bachelor Programs at Politecnico di Torino

Alessio Martino, Filiberto Chiabrando, Andrea Maria Lingua

Bimodal MorphoCopter for Wildfire Suppression: Transforming Quadcopters to All-Terrain-Vehicles (ATV)

Osman ACAR, Eija HONKAVAARA, Selahattin SEFACI

Real time solar panels heat point’s detection with EDGE ViTs using thermal drone imagery

Mouad Jabrane, Imane Sebari, Kenza Ait El Kadi

Application of UAV orthophoto and thermal imaging for municipal solid waste landfills monitoring

Olga Brovkina, Lukáš Fajmon, Miroslav Pikl, František Zemek

Real-Time Bundle Adjustment for Ultra-High-Resolution UAV Imagery Using Adaptive Patch-Based Feature Tracking

Selim Ahmet Iz, Francesco Nex, Norman Kerle, Henry Meissner, Ralf Berger

A Robust Integrated Approach for Near Real-Time Seamless Orthomosaic Generation Using Off-the-Shelf UAVs for Ultra-High Resolution Mapping Applications

Muhammad Farhan Humayun, Ali Salmasi, Jiaqiang Zhang, Tomi Westerlund, Jukka Heikkonen

Robust UAV Image Mosaicking Using SIFT and LightGlue

Sung Hyeon Kim, Taejung Kim

Distortion Invariant Optical Calibration for Lightweight Airborne Imaging Spectrometry

Julien Burkhard, Jesse Lahaye, Laurent Valentin Jospin, Jan Skaloud

Systematic Error Reduction in UAV-Based Laser Scanning by Using RTS

André Cornelißen, Ansgar Dreier, Felix Esser, Gereon Tombrink, Lasse Klingbeil, Heiner Kuhlmann

Misalignment estimation of a lightweight laser scanning system with static calibration

Marcela Vale Machado, Antonio Maria Garcia Tommaselli, Letícia Ferrari Castanheiro, Thaisa Aline Correia Garcia, Thiago Tiedtke Reis

Beyond the Next-Best-View: Machine Learning and Computer Vision for the Exploration and 3D Mapping of Large Scenes

Vincent Lepetit

Autonomous UAV 3D Reconstruction using Prediction-Based Next Best View

Ziwen Wang, Bashar Alasdik, Francesco Nex

Combining soft robotics and active-laser induced fluorescence for environmental monitoring: Evaluating the drone-scenario of the I-Seed project

Lammert Kooistra, Hasib Mustafa, Domantas Girzidas, Chenglong Zhang, Berry Onderstal, Harm Bartholomeus

SMARTNav: A Visual-Inertial Dataset for Reliable Robotic State Estimation

Hojat Mirtajadini Goki, Abeje Mersha, Mohammad Aldibaja

Integrating Pre-Harvest UAV Scans to Enhance Harvester Tree Localization Accuracy

Evgeny Lopatin, Kari Väätäinen, Harri Kaartinen, Heikki Hyyti, Lauri Sikanen, Yrjö Nuutinen, Mauricio Acuna

Novel robotic mapping system for freshwater environments

Jukka Matias Mäki-Leppilampi, Heikki Hyyti, Harri Kaartinen

Comparative Analyses for Determining Shallow Water Bathymetry from UAVs: a Case Study in the Adriatic Sea

Tea Duplančić Leder, Nenad Leder

Performance Evaluation of Drone Operated Dual Waveform Bathymetric LiDAR

Joonas Kousa, Teemu Hakala, Antero Kukko, Harri Kaartinen

Phenological and Species-Level Classification of Aquatic Invasive Plants Using UAV Multispectral Imagery and Machine Learning

Daniel H. C. Salim, Caio C. S. Mello, Gabriel Pereira, Raian V. Maretto, Frederico S. Machado, Camila C. Amorim

Advancements on Semantic Real-Time UAV Mapping

Marc David Haubenstock, Jules Salzinger, Michael Schwingshackl, Felix Bruckmüller, Christoph Sulzbachner, Phillipp Fanta-Jende

Implementing real-time wildfire detection using lightweight object-detection models and machine vision sensor on Raspberry Pi 5: Fireframe, a practical framework

Jukka Joutsalainen, Maxim Vitikainen, Juuso Lehrbäck, Alexander Goldhill, Anna-Maria Raita-Hakola

An End-to-End UAV–Cloud–AI Pipeline for Infrared-Based Real-Time Person Detection in SAR Missions

Seunghyun Kim, Jeonghyo Oh, Younggon Oh, Impyeong Lee

The End of Overfitting for UAV Applications - Self-Supervised Pretraining on Multispectral UAV Data

Jurrian Doornbos, Önder Babur

Domain Generalization in Deep Learning for Forest Health Monitoring Using Multispectral UAS Data

Emma Jenni Johanna Turkulainen, Raquel Alves de Oliveira, Niko Koivumäki, Päivi Lyytikäinen-Saarenmaa, Roope Näsi, Mikko Pelto-Arvo, Johanna Tuviala, Eija Honkavaara

Smart Drones, Smarter Learning: Federated Self-learning Minimal Learning Machine Classifier for Real-Time Hyperspectral Image Classification

Anna-Maria Raita-Hakola, Xinying Kilpi-Chen, Ilkka Pölönen