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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle: Applications in Agriculture and Environment

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Editors:
  1. Ram Avtar

    1. Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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  2. Teiji Watanabe

    1. Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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  • Explains the different methods applied to the UAV deployment in agriculture
  • Provides a step-by-step processing of image representation
  • Sample data is included for learning purposes

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Ram Avtar, Teiji Watanabe
    Pages 1-6

  3. Precision Agriculture and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

    • Rahul Raj, Soumyashree Kar, Rohit Nandan, Adinarayana Jagarlapudi
    Pages 7-23

  4. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-Based Hyperspectral Imaging System for Precision Agriculture and Forest Management

    • Junichi Kurihara, Tetsuro Ishida, Yukihiro Takahashi
    Pages 25-38

  5. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for Fertilizer Management in Grassland of Hokkaido, Japan

    • Kanichiro Matsumura
    Pages 39-50

  6. Corn Height Estimation Using UAV for Yield Prediction and Crop Monitoring

    • Flavio Furukawa, Kenji Maruyama, Youlia Kamei Saito, Masami Kaneko
    Pages 51-69

  7. Supporting Oil Palm Replanting Programs Using UAV and GIS in Malaysia

    • Pegah Hashemvand Khiabani, Wataru Takeuchi
    Pages 71-84

  8. Applications of UAVs in Plantation Health and Area Management in Malaysia

    • Ram Avtar, Stanley Anak Suab, Ali P. Yunus, Pankaj Kumar, Prashant K. Srivastava, Manish Ramaiah et al.
    Pages 85-100

  9. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System (UAVS) Applications in Forestry and Plantation Operations: Experiences in Sabah and Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo

    • Stanley Anak Suab, Ram Avtar
    Pages 101-118

  10. UAV-Based Structure from Motion – Multi-View Stereo (SfM-MVS): Mapping Cliff Face of Central Crater of Mt. Miharayama, Izu Oshima, Central Japan

    • Toshihiro Urayama, Tatsuro Chiba, Takumi Mochizuki, Syunsuke Miura, Shino Naruke, Hisashi Sasaki et al.
    Pages 119-129

  11. Applications of UAV Remote Sensing to Topographic and Vegetation Surveys

    • Hiroyuki Obanawa, Hideaki Shibata
    Pages 131-142

  12. The Role of Infrared Thermal Imaging in Road Patrolling Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    • Neha Sharma, A. S. Arora, Ajay Pal Singh, Jaspreet Singh
    Pages 143-157

  13. Fusion and Enhancement Techniques for Processing of Multispectral Images

    • Ashwani Kumar Aggarwal
    Pages 159-175

  14. Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for Urban Green Space Mapping in Urbanizing Indian Cities

    • Shruti Lahoti, Ashish Lahoti, Osamu Saito
    Pages 177-188

  15. Responsibility and Accountability in the Governance of Civilian UAV for Crop Insurance Applications in India

    • Anjan Chamuah, Rajbeer Singh
    Pages 189-199
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About this book

This book showcases how new and emerging technologies like Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are trying to provide solutions to unresolved socio-economic and environmental problems. Unmanned vehicles can be classified into five different types according to their operation. These five types are unmanned ground vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned surface vehicles (operating on the surface of the water), unmanned underwater vehicles, and unmanned spacecraft.  Unmanned vehicles can be guided remotely or function as autonomous vehicles. The technology has a wide range of uses including agriculture, industry, transport, communication, surveillance and environment applications. UAVs are widely used in precision agriculture; from monitoring the crops to crop damage assessment. This book explains the different methods in which they are used, providing step-by-step image processing and sample data. It also discusses how smart UAVs will provide unique opportunities for manufacturers to utilise new technological trends to overcome the current challenges of UAV applications.

The book will be of great interest to researchers engaged in forest carbon measurement, road patrolling, plantation monitoring, crop yield estimation, crop damage assessment, terrain modelling, fertilizer control, and pest control.




Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

    Ram Avtar, Teiji Watanabe

About the editors

Dr. Ram has expertise in the field of Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) which has been developed over the last eight years. Dr. Ram completed his PhD from the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan in  2012. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan and is teaching both masters and PhD students. Before joining Hokkaido University, he was associated with United Nation University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Tokyo, Japan as a Research Fellow. Dr. Ram has published several research papers in RS and GIS related research in peer-reviewed international journals. His research interest is in applications of Geospatial techniques to monitor terrestrial ecosystem including forest, agriculture, urban and disasters and disseminating the results to policy-makers. Currently, he is working on the synergistic use of remote sensing and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) techniques to monitor environment more precisely to solve environmental issues from global to local scale.

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