Overview
- Examines the application of drones as powerful tools in low-altitude and proximity land-observation
- Provides an overview of the limitations of the use of this fast growing technology
- Maximizes your understanding of the deployment and its operational aspects
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Keywords
- environmental measurement devices,
- proximity land-observation
- low-cost field deployment
- geographic surveys
- deployability
- drone surveying capabilities
- spatial information
- photogrammetry
- landscape archaeology
- image acquisition devices
- low altitude
- operational specifications
- data processing and visualization
- mobile mapping
- spatial information
- landscape/regional and urban planning
About this book
This book focuses on small flying drones and their applications in conducting geographic surveys. Scholars and professionals will discover the potential of this tool, and hopefully develop a conceptual and methodological framework for doing the following things: a) Translate their data acquisition needs into specifications. (b) Use the developed specifications to choose the best accessible configuration for their drones, and (c) Design and organize effective and low-cost field deployment and flight operations by integrating technical aspects with regulatory and research requirements.
Readers can apply this knowledge to work in cartography, environmental monitoring and analysis, land-use studies and landscape archaeology. Particular attention is also given to the reasons why a drone can dramatically boost a geographer’s capability to understand geographic phenomena both from hard-science and humanities-oriented approach.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Gianluca Casagrande is an Associate Professor of Geography and Scientific Director of the Geographic Research and Application Laboratory (GREAL) at the Università Europea di Roma, Italy.
Dr. András Sik is the Director of Geospatial Services at the Lechner TudásközpontLechner Tudásközpont in Budapest, Hungary.
Dr. Gergely Szabó is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Geography and Geoinformatics at University of Debrecen, Hungary
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Small Flying Drones
Book Subtitle: Applications for Geographic Observation
Editors: Gianluca Casagrande, András Sik, Gergely Szabó
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66577-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66576-4Published: 17 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88277-2Published: 23 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66577-1Published: 06 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 161
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 90 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation