Advances in Imaging and Sensing for Drones
A special issue of Drones (ISSN 2504-446X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (8 October 2023) | Viewed by 6252
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computer vision; remote sensing; edge computing
Interests: computer vision; collaborative learning; evolutionary learning
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Drones have become a popular tool for a variety of applications, including agriculture and forestry, resource surveying, and marine environment monitoring, due to their flexibility, low cost, easy maintenance, and high resolution and fast imaging capabilities. Drones can fill the gap left by satellite remote sensing monitoring by providing accurate capture of areas that are not limited by access cycles. However, the large field of view and high-resolution imaging characteristics of drones creates additional challenges for drone image analysis. As a result, the analysis, fusion, and co-application of drone imagery are becoming among the most important issues in society.
The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) to give insights about advances in imaging and sensing for drones.
This Special Issue focuses on the broad development prospects of processing image and sensor data acquired by drones. It includes theories and methods from the analysis of images and online processing to real-world practical applications. This can be achieved through image/signal processing or deep/machine learning algorithms. The latest technological developments will be shared through this Special Issue. Researchers and investigators are invited to contribute original research or review articles to this Special Issue.
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:
- Analysis of drone videos/images (image classification, object detection, object tracking, image segmentation, feature extraction, change detection, etc.).
- Data stitching and fusion: stitching of large-scale data from drone images and fusion with satellite, aerial or ground data.
- Real-time processing of drone data: research on embedded platforms carried by drones.
- Development of intelligent control software for drone flight control ground: research into intelligent control.
- Applications (marine monitoring, resource surveying, search and rescue, agriculture, forestry, urban monitoring, disaster prevention and assessment, etc.).
Any content related to drone imagery is welcome for submission.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Dr. Shengke Wang
Dr. Pengfei Zhu
Prof. Dr. Bineng Zhong
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Drones is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
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- object detection and tracking
- image segmentation and feature extraction
- image stitching and fusion
- online and real-time processing
- environment Monitoring and inspection
- computer vision
- low-cost remote sensing
- unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)