Drones: Applications in Forestry
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or Drones, have become inexpensive tools for not only high quality aerial video and photography, but also spectral and topographic mapping. Drones have become ubiquitous tools in the Natural Resources Industry. Applications in forest harvesting can be grouped into pre-harvest applications and post-harvest applications. Figure 1. Upper panels: Pre-harvest forest Stands; Lower panels: Post-harvest. Orthophotos (aerial imagery) from reconaissance flight