Unmanned Aerial Vehicle: Applications in Agriculture and Environment

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

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.

• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
• Precision agriculture
• 3-D modelling techniques
• Terrestrial scanning and topographic surveys
• forest carbon measurement
• remote sensing/photogrammetry

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

  Ram Avtar, Teiji Watanabe

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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