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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are new platforms that have been increasingly used in the last few years for forestry applications that benefit from the added value of flexibility, low cost, reliability, autonomy, and capability of timely provision of high-resolution data. The main adopted image-based technologies are RGB, multispectral, and thermal infrared. LiDAR sensors are becoming commonly used to improve the estimation of relevant plant traits. In comparison with other permanent ecosystems, forests are particularly affected by climatic changes due to the longevity of the trees, and the primary objective is the conservation and protection of forests. Nevertheless, forestry and agriculture involve the cultivation of renewable raw materials, with the difference that forestry is less tied to economic aspects and this is reflected by the delay in using new monitoring technologies. The main forestry applications are aimed toward inventory of resources, map diseases, species classification, fire monitoring, and spatial gap estimation. This Special Issue focuses on new technologies (UAV and sensors) and innovative data elaboration methodologies (object recognition and machine vision) for applications in forestry.

unmanned aerial vehicles --- seedling detection --- forest regeneration --- reforestation --- establishment survey --- machine learning --- multispectral classification --- UAV photogrammetry --- forest modeling --- ancient trees measurement --- tree age prediction --- Mauritia flexuosa --- semantic segmentation --- end-to-end learning --- convolutional neural network --- forest inventory --- Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) --- structure from motion (SfM) --- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) --- Photogrammetry --- Thematic Mapping --- Accuracy Assessment --- Reference Data --- Forest Sampling --- Remote Sensing --- Robinia pseudoacacia L. --- reproduction --- spreading --- short rotation coppice --- unmanned aerial system (UAS) --- object-based image analysis (OBIA) --- convolutional neural network (CNN) --- juniper woodlands --- ecohydrology --- remote sensing --- unmanned aerial systems --- central Oregon --- rangelands --- seedling stand inventorying --- photogrammetric point clouds --- hyperspectral imagery --- leaf-off --- leaf-on --- UAV --- multispectral image --- forest fire --- burn severity --- classification --- precision agriculture --- biomass evaluation --- image processing --- Castanea sativa --- unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) --- precision forestry --- forestry applications --- RGB imagery

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The rapid growth of the world population has resulted in an exponential expansion of both urban and agricultural areas. Identifying and managing such earthly changes in an automatic way poses a worth-addressing challenge, in which remote sensing technology can have a fundamental role to answer—at least partially—such demands. The recent advent of cutting-edge processing facilities has fostered the adoption of deep learning architectures owing to their generalization capabilities. In this respect, it seems evident that the pace of deep learning in the remote sensing domain remains somewhat lagging behind that of its computer vision counterpart. This is due to the scarce availability of ground truth information in comparison with other computer vision domains. In this book, we aim at advancing the state of the art in linking deep learning methodologies with remote sensing image processing by collecting 20 contributions from different worldwide scientists and laboratories. The book presents a wide range of methodological advancements in the deep learning field that come with different applications in the remote sensing landscape such as wildfire and postdisaster damage detection, urban forest mapping, vine disease and pavement marking detection, desert road mapping, road and building outline extraction, vehicle and vessel detection, water identification, and text-to-image matching.

synthetic aperture radar --- despeckling --- multi-scale --- LSTM --- sub-pixel --- high-resolution remote sensing imagery --- road extraction --- machine learning --- DenseUNet --- scene classification --- lifting scheme --- convolution --- CNN --- image classification --- deep features --- hand-crafted features --- Sinkhorn loss --- remote sensing --- text image matching --- triplet networks --- EfficientNets --- LSTM network --- convolutional neural network --- water identification --- water index --- semantic segmentation --- high-resolution remote sensing image --- pixel-wise classification --- result correction --- conditional random field (CRF) --- satellite --- object detection --- neural networks --- single-shot --- deep learning --- global convolution network --- feature fusion --- depthwise atrous convolution --- high-resolution representations --- ISPRS vaihingen --- Landsat-8 --- faster region-based convolutional neural network (FRCNN) --- single-shot multibox detector (SSD) --- super-resolution --- remote sensing imagery --- edge enhancement --- satellites --- open-set domain adaptation --- adversarial learning --- min-max entropy --- pareto ranking --- SAR --- Sentinel–1 --- Open Street Map --- U–Net --- desert --- road --- infrastructure --- mapping --- monitoring --- deep convolutional networks --- outline extraction --- misalignments --- nearest feature selector --- hyperspectral image classification --- two stream residual network --- Batch Normalization --- plant disease detection --- precision agriculture --- UAV multispectral images --- orthophotos registration --- 3D information --- orthophotos segmentation --- wildfire detection --- convolutional neural networks --- densenet --- generative adversarial networks --- CycleGAN --- data augmentation --- pavement markings --- visibility --- framework --- urban forests --- OUDN algorithm --- object-based --- high spatial resolution remote sensing --- Generative Adversarial Networks --- post-disaster --- building damage assessment --- anomaly detection --- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) --- xBD --- feature engineering --- orthophoto --- unsupervised segmentation