Applications of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems-Best Practices and Case Studies

1. sUAS Data Accuracy in Photogrammetric Workflows
Qassim Abdullah and Riadh Munjy
2. Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Thematic Map Accuracy Assessment
Russell G. Congalton and Benjamin T. Fraser
3. Multiuser Concepts and Workflow Replicability in sUAS Applications
Jason A. Tullis, Katie Corcoran, Richard Ham, Bandana Kar, and Malcolm Williamson
4. The sUAS Educational Frontier: Mapping an Educational Pathway for the Future Workforce
John A. McGee III and James B. Campbell
5. Federal Government Applications of UAS Technology
Bruce Quirk and Barry Haack
6. sUAS for Wildlife Conservation – Assessing Habitat Quality of the Endangered Black-Footed Ferret
Donna M. Delparte, Kristy Bly, Travis Stone, Sarah Olimb, Michael Kinsey, Matthew Belt, and Thomas Calton
7. Multi-View, Deep Learning, and Contextual Analysis: Promising Approaches for sUAS Land Cover Classification
Tao Liu and Amr Abd-Elrahman
8. UAS for Nature Conservation – Monitoring Invasive Species
Jana Müllerová
9. Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) and Structure from Motion for Identifying, Documenting, and Monitoring Cultural and Natural Resources
Marguerite Madden, Thomas Jordan, Sergio Bernardes, Cari Goetcheus, Kristen Olson, and David Cotten
10. New Insights Offered by UAS for River Monitoring
Salvatore Manfreda, Silvano Fortunato Dal Sasso, Alonso Pizarro, and Flavia Tauro
11. The Campus as a High Spatial Resolution Mapping Laboratory – Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) Data Acquisition, Analytics, and
Educational Issues
J.B. Sharma, J. Zachary Miller, Brian Duran, and Lance Hundt
12. Flying UAVs in Constrained Environments: Best Practices for Flying within Complex Forest Canopies
Ramesh Sivanpillai, Gregory K. Brown, Brandon S. Gellis