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"The journal focuses on design and applications of drones, including unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), etc. Likewise, contributions based on unmanned water/underwater drones and unmanned ground vehicles are also welcomed"--website, viewed September 9, 2019.

unmanned aerial vehicle --- controlling system --- machine learning --- unmanned aircraft systems --- remotely piloted aircraft systems --- Drone aircraft --- Vehicles, Remotely piloted --- Unmanned vehicles --- Vehicles --- Radio control --- Remote control --- Drones (Aircraft) --- Pilotless aircraft --- Remotely piloted aircraft --- UAVs (Unmanned aerial vehicles) --- Unmanned aerial vehicles --- Flying-machines --- Airplanes --- Transport engineering --- Drone aircraft. --- Vehicles, Remotely piloted.

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Aerial robots with perception, navigation, and manipulation capabilities are extending the range of applications of drones, allowing the integration of different sensor devices and robotic manipulators to perform inspection and maintenance operations on infrastructures such as power lines, bridges, viaducts, or walls, involving typically physical interactions on flight. New research and technological challenges arise from applications demanding the benefits of aerial robots, particularly in outdoor environments. This book collects eleven papers from different research groups from Spain, Croatia, Italy, Japan, the USA, the Netherlands, and Denmark, focused on the design, development, and experimental validation of methods and technologies for inspection and maintenance using aerial robots.

Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- aerial manipulation --- dual arm --- compliance --- Cartesian manipulator --- hexa-rotor --- multirotor UAV --- translational driving system --- magnetic field navigation --- parallel conductors --- transmission lines --- unmanned aerial vehicles --- inspection and maintenance --- power lines --- arial manipulation --- multirotor systems --- high-voltage power lines --- clip-type bird flight diverters --- aerial robotics --- multirotor control --- inspection --- maintenance --- UAV --- aerial robotic manipulation --- viaduct --- LIDAR --- photogrammetry --- contact --- Structural Health Monitoring --- Unmanned Aircraft System --- drone --- damage detection --- electropermanent magnet --- B-spline impulse response function --- Dynamic Signature Response --- force control --- bilateral teleoperation --- haptics --- quadrotor --- mosquitoes’ control --- drones --- drone regulation --- unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) --- U-space --- SORA methodology --- sterile insect technique (SIT) --- n/a --- mosquitoes' control

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Aerial robots with perception, navigation, and manipulation capabilities are extending the range of applications of drones, allowing the integration of different sensor devices and robotic manipulators to perform inspection and maintenance operations on infrastructures such as power lines, bridges, viaducts, or walls, involving typically physical interactions on flight. New research and technological challenges arise from applications demanding the benefits of aerial robots, particularly in outdoor environments. This book collects eleven papers from different research groups from Spain, Croatia, Italy, Japan, the USA, the Netherlands, and Denmark, focused on the design, development, and experimental validation of methods and technologies for inspection and maintenance using aerial robots.

Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- aerial manipulation --- dual arm --- compliance --- Cartesian manipulator --- hexa-rotor --- multirotor UAV --- translational driving system --- magnetic field navigation --- parallel conductors --- transmission lines --- unmanned aerial vehicles --- inspection and maintenance --- power lines --- arial manipulation --- multirotor systems --- high-voltage power lines --- clip-type bird flight diverters --- aerial robotics --- multirotor control --- inspection --- maintenance --- UAV --- aerial robotic manipulation --- viaduct --- LIDAR --- photogrammetry --- contact --- Structural Health Monitoring --- Unmanned Aircraft System --- drone --- damage detection --- electropermanent magnet --- B-spline impulse response function --- Dynamic Signature Response --- force control --- bilateral teleoperation --- haptics --- quadrotor --- mosquitoes' control --- drones --- drone regulation --- unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) --- U-space --- SORA methodology --- sterile insect technique (SIT)

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River discharge is a fundamental hydrologic quantity that summarizes how a watershed transforms the input of precipitation into output as channelized streamflow. Accurate discharge measurements are critical for a range of applications including water supply, navigation, recreation, management of in-stream habitat, and the prediction and monitoring of floods and droughts. However, the traditional stream gage networks that provide such data are sparse and declining. Remote sensing represents an appealing alternative for obtaining streamflow information. Potential advantages include greater efficiency, expanded coverage, increased measurement frequency, lower cost and reduced risk to field personnel. In addition, remote sensing provides opportunities to examine long river segments with continuous coverage and high spatial resolution. To realize these benefits, research must focus on the remote measurement of flow velocity, channel geometry and their product: river discharge. This Special Issue fostered the development of novel methods for retrieving discharge and its components, and thus stimulated progress toward an operational capacity for streamflow monitoring. The papers herein address all aspects of the remote measurement of streamflow—estimation of flow velocity, bathymetry (water depth), and discharge—from various types of remotely sensed data acquired from a range of platforms: manned and unmanned aircraft, satellites, and ground-based non-contact sensors.

Research & information: general --- estuary --- morphology --- rapid assessment --- bathymetry --- flow velocity --- salinity --- tool --- remotely-sensed imagery --- small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) --- river flow --- thermal infrared imagery --- particle image velocimetry --- lidar bathymetry --- fluvial --- geomorphology --- change detection --- remotely piloted aircraft system --- refraction correction --- structure-from-motion photogrammetry --- water surface elevation --- topographic error --- machine learning --- UAV LiDAR --- airborne laser bathymetry --- full waveform processing --- performance assessment --- high resolution hydro-mapping --- remote sensing --- rivers --- discharge --- hydrology --- modelling --- ungauged basins --- Alaska --- river --- PIV --- large-scale particle image velocimetry --- LSPIV --- surface velocity --- river discharge --- Doppler radar --- pulsed radar --- probability concept --- water temperature --- salmonids --- Pend Oreille River --- thermal infrared (TIR) --- acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) --- channel bathymetry --- cold-water refuge --- dam --- flooding --- high-water marks (HWMs) --- small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) --- drone --- photogrammetry --- hydraulic modeling --- aerial photography --- surveying --- inundation --- Landsat --- streamflow --- flow frequency --- satellite revisit time --- flow regime

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This book is the first literature collection focused on the development and implementation of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and their integration with sensors for atmospheric measurements on Earth. The research covered in the book combines chemical, physical, and meteorological measurements performed in field campaigns, as well as conceptual and laboratory work. Useful examples for the development of platforms and autonomous systems for environmental studies are provided, which demonstrate how careful the operation of sensors aboard UAS must be to gather information for remote sensing in the atmosphere. The work serves as a key collection of articles to introduce the topic to new researchers interested in the field, guide future studies, and motivate measurements to improve our understanding of the Earth’s complex atmosphere.

unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) --- drones --- geostatistics --- atmospheric physics --- meteorology --- spatial sampling --- unmanned aerial vehicles --- unmanned aerial systems, turbulence --- atmospheric boundary layer --- TK-1G sounding rocket --- near space --- data analysis --- remote sensing --- unmanned aerial systems --- atmospheric composition --- sensors --- UAS --- RPAS --- ALADINA --- airborne turbulence --- radiation measurements --- aerosol measurements --- field experiments --- validation methods --- unmanned aircraft --- meteorological observation --- stable atmospheric boundary layer --- turbulence --- remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) --- ground-based in-situ observations --- boundary layer remote sensing --- Arctic --- polar --- sea ice --- n/a --- source estimation --- methane emissions --- natural gas --- leak surveys --- inverse emissions --- MONITOR --- UAV --- LDAR --- air pollution --- unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) --- PM2.5 --- meteorological condition --- long-distance transport --- satellite data --- RMLD-UAV --- methane --- mass flux --- leak rate quantification --- wind speed and direction estimation algorithms --- flow probes --- airspeed measurement --- small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS)