UAV systems are becoming established as platforms for remote sensing activity both for High-Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) missions and for low-altitude lightweight and fixed-wing, helicopters (DRONE) and blimp / balloons / microlites.

The benefits of Drones and UAVs mainly lie in the ease, rapidity and cost of flexibility of deployment that lends itself to many land surface measurement and monitoring applications.

The past 5 years have seen a steady flow of high quality peer-review papers and research theses on remote sensing from Drone and UAV platforms for innovative applications. High altitude UAV platforms offer opportunities for innovative atmospheric science (primarily) while small, low-altitude systems are ideal for monitoring of crops, coastal algal blooms, riparian and rangeland vegetation and even for photogrammetry and laser scanning.

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