Drone Mapping Applications

Plant Agriculture

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Rangeland Management

Drone imagery mapping can provide many types of data useful for rangeland management and monitoring:

• Vegetation cover and composition
• Estimating forage utilization
• Calculating percentage of bare ground and size of canpy gaps
• Estimating forage and woody biomass

Cattle grazing at the Santa Rita Range in southern Arizona

Photogrammetric point cloud depicting forage utilization

Examples From the Literature

Integrating drone imagery with existing rangeland monitoring programs

Innovations to expand drone data collection and analysis for rangelands

A pilot study to estimate forage mass from unmanned aerial vehicles in a semi-arid rangeland

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Construction

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Civil Engineering

Forestry

Mining

Geology/Volcanology

Marine Environments

Rivers & Wetlands

Topographic Change

Wildlife Surveys

Archaelogy

Disaster Management

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Last update: 2023-08-18