Use of Drones for Environmental Monitoring
The book “Unmanned Aerial Systems for Monitoring Soil, Vegetation, and Riverine Environments” is the result of five years of intense activities carried out within the context of the COST Action…
Operations Manual for the Use of UAS in Environmental Studies (based on SORA 2.0)
This set of three documents represents a blueprint of an Operations Manual for UAS operations (OM) targeting environmental studies, accompanied by an Emergency Response Plan (ERP) and an example of UAS operation description and…
Webinar – Drones in Geographical Applications
Do not miss the Webinar organised by Drones MDPI on Drones in Geographical Applications!!! Webinar will be coordinated by George P. Petropoulos and it will include the following talks: Unmanned Aerial Systems for Monitoring…
Detection of Surface Water and Floods with Multispectral Satellites
The use of multispectral satellite imagery for water monitoring is a fast and cost-effective method that can benefit from the growing availability of medium–high-resolution and free remote sensing data. Since…
Monitoring Water Turbidity Using Remote Sensing Techniques
In the present work, the use of optical cameras for turbidity measurements is tested on the Bode River in Germany, which is one of the best-instrumented catchments in Central Germany…
VIdeo StabilisatION for image velocimetry analysis in rivers
VISION is open-source software written in MATLAB for video stabilisation using automatic features detection. It can be applied for any use, but it has been developed mainly for image velocimetry…
Best Paper Award Remote Sensing 2022
I’m proud to announce that our recent paper “Current Practices in UAS-based Environmental Monitoring” has been awarded with the Best Paper Award 2022 by Remote Sensing MDPI. This paper has been…
HARMONIOUS GENERAL ASSEMBLY
University of Debrecen, Hungary Detailed program of the Workshop 08:30 – 09:30 Registration 09:30-09:50: László Bertalan, Brigitta Tóth: Welcome from local organizers09:50-10:05: Salvatore Manfreda – The achievements HARMONIOUS COST Action10:05-10:25: Plenary talk: Francesco Nex – Towards real-time…
In Situ Observation-Constrained Global Surface Soil Moisture Using Random Forest Model
The inherent biases of different long-term gridded surface soil moisture (SSM) products, unconstrained by the in situ observations, implies different spatio-temporal patterns. In this study, the Random Forest (RF) model…
3D Models of the Cultural Heritage
UAS-based surveys and structure from motion (SfM) can lead to extraordinary and realistic 3D models to preserve our cultural heritage. In our recent applications, our members are developing new strategies…
Planning the future of Harmonious
The Department of Topography and Cartography of the Technical University of Madrid hosted our work group meeting of COST Action – HARMONIOUS from 27 up to the 30 of October. During this…
Characterizing vegetation complexity with unmanned aerial systems (UAS) – A framework and synthesis
Ecosystem complexity is among the important drivers of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, and unmanned aerial systems (UASs) are becoming an important tool for characterizing vegetation patterns and processes. The variety…
Mapping Water Infiltration Rate Using Ground and UAV Hyperspectral Data: A Case Study of Alento, Italy
Water infiltration rate (WIR) into the soil profile was investigated through a comprehensive study harnessing spectral information of the soil surface. As soil spectroscopy provides invaluable information on soil attributes,…
Most cited paper of Remote Sensing
The review “On the Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Environmental Monitoring” by HARMONIOUS Team is the most cited paper of Remote Sensing MDPI in the last 36 months.
HARMONIOUS deliverables of 2020
This year, COST Action – HARMONIOUS members produced a quite impressive number of results working online. Imagine what we could do without restrictions!See the following list:1. Use of UAVs with the simplified…