Zhan, P., K. Yu, and A.L. Swindlehurst, 2006. Wireless relay commu-
nications using an unmanned aerial vehicle,
Proceedings of the
IEEE 7
th
Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless
Communications
, 02-05 July, Cannes, France, pp. 1–5.
Zhan, P., K. Yu, and A.L. Swindlehurst, 2011. Wireless relay commu-
nications using an unmanned aerial vehicle,
IEEE Transactions
on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
, 47(3):2068–2085.
Zhao, H., Y. Lei, Z. Gou, and L. Zhang, 2006. The characteristic analy-
ses of images from the UAV remote sensing system,
Proceedings
of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Geoscience and
Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
, Denver, Colorado, 31
July-04 August, pp. 3349–3351.
Zheng-Jie, and L. Wei, 2013. A solution to cooperative area cover-
age surveillance for a swarm of MAVs.
International Journal of
Advanced Robotic Systems
, 10:398, 8 p.
Zhou, G., C. Li, and P. Cheng, 2005. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
real-time video registration for forest fire monitoring,
IEEE
Proceedings on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
(IGARSS’05)
, 25-29 July, Vol. 3, pp. 1803–1806.
Zhou, G., 2009. Near real-time orthorectification and mosaic of
small UAV video flow for time-critical event response,
IEEE
Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
, 47(3):739–747.
Zhou, Y., J. Li, L. Lamont, and C.A. Rabbath, 2012a. Modeling of
packet dropout for UAV wireless communications,
Proceedings
of the International Conference on Computing, Networking and
Communications
(ICNC)
, 30 January-02 February, Maui, Hawaii,
pp. 677–682.
Zhou, G., J. Yang, X. Li, and X. Yang, 2012b. Advances of flash
LiDAR development onboard UAV,
International Archives of
the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information
Sciences
, XXXIX-B3, pp. 193–198.
Zhou, G., and S. Reichle, 2010. UAV-based multi-sensor data fusion
processing,
International Journal on Image and Data Fusion
,
1(3):283–291.
Zhu, J., K. Wang, J. Deng, and T. Harmon, 2009. Quantifying nitro-
gen status of rice using low altitude Uav-mounted system and
object-oriented segmentation methodology,
Proceedings of the
ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences
and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
, 30
August-02 September, San Diego, California, Vol. 3, pp. 1–7.
Appendix A - List of Acronyms
AGL Above Ground Level
ALS Airborne Laser Scanning
ALTM Airborne Laser Terrain Mapper
AS
Altitude Sensors
ASTRA Atmospheric Science Through Robotic Aircraft
AUVSI Association for Unmanned Vehicle
Systems International
BBCS Blackboard communication system
CAGR Compound Annual Growth Rate
BRDF Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function
CCA Civil Aviation Authority
CCD Charge Coupled Device
CF
Compact Flash
CIR Color Infrared
CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor
CSIC Spanish National Research Council
CWSI
Crop Water Stress Index
DEM Digital Elevation Model
DSM Digital Surface Model
DTM Digital Terrain Model
EOS Electro-Optical-System
FLIR Forward Looking Infrared
FMCW Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave
FOV Field of View
FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
GCP Ground Control Points
GCS Ground Control Station (System)
GDS Geomagnetic Direction System
GPS Global Positioning System
GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System
GIS
Geographic Information System
HS3
Hurricane Severe Storm Sentinel
IAS
Institute for Sustainable Agriculture
ICOS Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy
IHM Interface Human Machine
IMU Inertial Measurement Unit
INS
Inertial Navigation Sensors
INTA National Institute for Aerospace Technology
ISCAR System Engineering, Control,
Automation and Robotics
LARS Low Altitude Remote Sensing
MALE Medium Altitude-Long Endurance
MAVIS Massive Airspace Volume Instrumentation System
MAVs Micro Air Vehicles
MCCFS Multi-Channel Chemical Filter Sampler
MEMS Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
MTVI
Modified Triangular Vegetation Index
MVS Multi-View Stereovision
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NDVI
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
NEC Nippon Electric Company
NIR Near Infra-Red
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
OSAVI Optimized Soil-Adjusted Vegetation Index
RFID Radio Frequency Identifiers
RPAs
Remotely Piloted Aircrafts
RTKGPS: Real-Time Kinematic Global Positioning System
SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar
SBC Single Board Computer
SD Secure Cards
SfM Structure from Motion
SIFT Scale Invariant Feature Transform
SLAM Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
S/MUAS Small and Mini-Unmanned Aerial Systems
TCARI
Transformed Chlorophyll Absorption
in Reflectance Index
TOW Take-Off Weight
UAVs Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
UASs Unmanned Aerial Systems
UCM University Complutense of Madrid
UGVs Unmanned Ground Vehicles
UHF Ultra High Frequency
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
USVs
Unmanned marine Surface Vehicles
VCSEL Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser
VHALE Very High Altitude-Long Endurance
VHF Very High Frequency
VTOL Vertical-take-off-and-landing
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
WMS Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy
WSN Wireless Sensor Networks
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
April 2015
329
