UAV applications in forest monitoring

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), sometimes called drones, become more and more relevant for forest monitoring. Together with fast developments of photogrammetry software and the increasing availability of specific sensors, UAVs become a flexible alternative for airborne remote sensing on smaller areas.
Together with my colleagues Dr. Hans Fuchs, Dr. Nils Nölke and Nils Griese, we give an overview about some typical goals and products that are interesting in context of forest monitoring and forest management.
If you are interested about other aspects of forest inventories or remote sensing applications in forestry, visit our AWF Wiki at wiki.awf.forst.uni-goettingen....
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[@adamalex7402]

Very cool and great work! I am just starting off and until I get my first jobs I am using the free Open Drone map. Which one did you use?

[@eduardohildt]

An excellent video, summarizing very well the potential of drone photogrammetry applied to the study of forests. Greetings from Argentina, where we are working on this issue, although at the moment using "toy drones". ; )

[@forestinventory]

"toy drones" are very useful, cheap and flexible and equipped with very good cameras today. Have fun!