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Enhancing Drone Light Shows Performances: Optimal Allocation and Trajectories for Swarm Drone Formations

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drone light shows (DLShows) represent a rapidly growing application of swarm robotics, creating captivating aerial displays through the synchronized flight of hundreds or thousands of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as environmentally friendly and reusable alternatives to traditional pyrotechnics.
Yunes Alqudsi
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Robotics for Crop Pollination: Recent Advances and Future Direction

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is great interest in alternative pollination strategies for crop production in the face of climate change and perennial threats to the traditional pollination mechanisms. This review explores the potential of robotic pollination as a promising solution to these challenges affecting crop fertilization, agricultural sustainability, and ...
Ranjan Sapkota, Matthew D. Whiting, Dawood Ahmed, Manoj Karkee   +3 more
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UAV‐Based Precision Seed Dropping for Automated Reforestation

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wildfires and deforestation pose significant threats to forest ecosystems, motivating scalable methods for reforestation beyond labor‐intensive cultivation of native forest seedlings in nurseries. To enable large‐scale direct seeding of native species, this paper presents the design, analysis, and field evaluation of a UAV‐based seed‐dropping ...
Qi Rui Lee, Henrik Hesse, Khuanphirom Naruangsri, Worayut Takaew, Stephen Elliott, Dinesh Bhatia   +5 more
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Riparian Failure: Damming and Flow Stabilization Exclude Cottonwood Colonization Along a Dryland River

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Marias River flows from Glacier National Park through northcentral Montana, and into the Missouri River. Annual flows gradually declined from 1902 to 2024 (~3.2%/decade) and the 1952 Tiber Dam and Lake Elwell reservoir were operated to attenuate peak flows and stabilize downstream flows year‐round.
Stewart B. Rood, Lori A. Goater
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Classification of tree species and standing dead trees in Boreal forests using UAV‐based RGB, multispectral, and LiDAR point clouds

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
We evaluated single‐ and multi‐sensor UAV approaches for classifying tree species and standing dead trees in boreal forests, focusing on key biodiversity indicators such as European aspen. Using spectral and structural features extracted from RGB, multispectral (MSP), and LiDAR point clouds for 1,205 field‐measured trees, we compared classification ...
Anton Kuzmin, Lauri Korhonen, Topi Tanhuanpää, Mikko Kukkonen, Matti Maltamo, Timo Kumpula   +5 more
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New energy: Empowering unmanned aerial vehicles in low-altitude economy

Next Energy
Traditional fossil fuels are being depleted. In today's society, electricity consumption shows characteristics such as rapid growth in the tertiary industry and residential life, an increasing share of green electricity, prominent peak-valley conflicts ...
Zijian Wu, Zhehao Zhang
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Multi‐Platform Deployments of Low‐Cost Devices for Cetacean Passive Acoustic Monitoring

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Recent advances in affordable, user‐friendly devices offer new opportunities to overcome cost constraints of underwater passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) and expand acoustic data collection. In this study, we deployed low‐cost acoustic recorders and underwater cameras across a range of platforms in the Western Mediterranean, including fishing gear ...
Greta Jankauskaite, François Poisson, Irati Abascal, Javier Menéndez‐Blázquez, Clara Cánovas Pérez, Sofia Conti, Ricardo Sagarminaga, Juan Antonio Raga, David March   +8 more
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Monitoring of Crustose Coralline Algae Using Low‐Altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Intertidal Reefs

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
High‐resolution visible‐light imagery from low‐altitude unmanned aerial vehicles, combined with superpixel segmentation and a Random Forest classifier, provides an efficient and scalable framework for mapping and monitoring crustose coralline algae and reef habitats.
Po‐Chien Lin, Han‐Yang Yeh, Zhi‐Cheng Huang   +2 more
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Detecting Plateau Zokor (Eospalax baileyi) Mounds in UAV Imagery of Alpine Meadows Using Deep Learning Algorithms

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
We developed PZM‐YOLO to automatically detect plateau zokor mounds in UAV imagery of alpine meadows. The model achieved reliable detection of small and densely distributed mounds under complex backgrounds, outperforming the baseline YOLOv5s. This framework supports mound counting, mound position, rodent impact assessment, and grassland restoration ...
Yang Yang, Limin Hua, Lianguo Wang, Jiazhen Li, Rui Dong, Siwei Yang   +5 more
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Intelligent identification of rock mass discontinuities based on the MK‐Means algorithm

River, EarlyView.
Abstract Rock mass discontinuities govern the mechanical properties and engineering stability of rock masses. Conventional clustering algorithms typically require manual specification of the number of clusters or initial parameters, rendering the results sensitive to empirical judgment and initial conditions.
Wei Yang, Ce Liang, Hui Deng, Hao Liu, Xiaodong Cui, Jin Zhang, Wenhui Zhong, Anrun Li   +7 more
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