State of the art and challenges on the use UAS for Environmental Monitoring

FIRST HARMONIOUS WORKSHOP

The use UAS Techniques for Environmental Monitoring:
state of the art and challenges

Scientific Park of the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
February 15, 2017

PROGRAM

8:00-8:45 Welcome and Registration
8:45-10:30 – Session 1 – UAS for Environmental Monitoring [Convener Pauline Miller]
[8:45-9:00] HARMONIOUS COST Action: challenges and opportunities – Salvatore Manfreda (Chair), Brigitta Toth (Vice Chair) [PDF]
[9:00-9:15] UAV-based monitoring of grasslands: Experiences using accessible technology and techniques – Joel Forsmoo (University of Exeter, UK) – Invited
[9:15-9:30] Development of European and Spanish regulations for RPAS. Progress and future perspectives – Israel Quintanilla, (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) [PDF]
[9:30-9:45] State of the art of the Wageningen University and Research-Unmanned Aerial Remote Sensing Facility and its applications and challenges in agriculture and nature – Sander Mucher (Wageningen Environmental Research, Netherlands) [PDF]
[9:45-10:00] GRONE Project: a cross-border cluster for UAV-based services – Thomas Beco (University of Liege, Belgium)
[10:00-10:15] The importance of altimetry in the UAV missions design – Miguel A. Manso (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) [PDF]
[10:15-10:30] Soil spectral library for quantitative mapping of the soil surface – Eyal Ben Dor (Tel Aviv University, Israel) [PDF]

11:00-13:30 – Session 2-UAS for Vegetation Monitoring [Convener Antonino Maltese]
[11:00-11:15] New UAVs opportunities for ecology and agriculture – Xurxo Gago (University of Balearic Islands, Spain) – Invited
[11:15-11:30] Detection of forest windthrow areas by unmanned aircraft system with RTK – Martin Mokroš (Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia) [PDF]
[11:30-11:45] Assessing the ability of hybrid poplar for in-situ phytoextraction of cadmium by using UAV–photogrammetry and 3D flow simulator – Nunzio Romano (University of Naples”Federico II”, Italy) [PDF]
[11:45-12:00] Vegetation monitoring in Iceland using UAV´s – Victor Madrigal, Bryndís Marteinsdóttir (Svarmi-The Soil Conservation Service of Iceland, Iceland) [PDF]
[12:00-12:15] Combining measurements for drought by UAS thermal platform – Jesper Svensgaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) [PDF]
[12:15-12:30] From below to aboveground: Using and up scaling the bioindicator potential – Maria Tsiafouli (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) [PDF]
[12:30-12:45] Remote-sensing assessment of selected urban forest parks in Karlovo region – S. Dimitrov, V. Chepisheva, M. Zhiyanski, Ivaylo Tsvetkov (Sofia University, Bulgaria) [PDF]
[12:45]-13:00] Unmanned aircraft for alien plant species detection and monitoring – Petr Dvořák (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) [PDF]

[13:00-13:30] Discussion

15:00-17:30 – Session 3 – UAS for Hydrological Monitoring [Convener Bob Su]
[15:00-15:15] Obtaining soil hydraulic parameters to enhance soil moisture prediction with UAS – Brigitta Toth (Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary) [PDF]
[15:15-15:30] Using infrared thermography towards optimizing water use in irrigated agriculture – Isabel Pedroso De Lima (University of Coimbra, Portugal) [PDF]
[15:30-15:45] On the use of remote sensed soil moisture data in spatio-temporal model calibration for a Mediterranean catchment – Carlos Echeverria, Félix Francés (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain) [PDF]
[15:45-16.00] Calibration and Validation methodologies for SMOS/SMAP – Bob Su (University of Twente, Netherlands) [PDF]
[16:00-16.15] Surface soil water content mapping using thermal images: limits and advantages – Antonino Maltese, Giuseppe Ciraolo (University of Palermo, Italy) [PDF]
[16:15-16:30] Field experiences on stream flow monitoring by UAS – Flavia Tauro (University of Tuscia, Italy) [PDF]
[16:30-16:45] Exploring the optimal experimental setup for surface flow velocity measurements using PTV – Salvatore Manfreda (University of Basilicata, Italy) [PDF]

[16:45-17:30] Discussion and Closure