Forestry applications of UAVs in Europe: a review

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or remotely piloted aircraft systems are new platforms that have been increasingly used over the last decade in Europe to collect data for forest research, thanks to the miniaturization and cost reduction of GPS receivers, inertial navigation system, computers, and, most of all, sensors for remote sensing.In this review, after describing the regulatory framework for the operation of UAVs in the European Union...