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Economic aspects of UAV application in changes detection monitoring

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems are nowadays widely used, especially in applications where aerial imaging is an important source of information for performing certain tasks. With the advancement of technology, UAVs have reached an enviable level of practical reliability and functionality that has enabled these systems to enter the geomatics business market as valuable additional platform for collecting spatial information. One of the potential applications of UAV images is the change detection on the Earth's surface by recording a series of images of the same surface over time. Change detection is of great interest for a number of applications including agriculture, forestry, mining and monitoring of urban and green areas. Unlike classical methods of remote sensing and aerial photogrammetry the obvious advantages of UAV data are their high spatial resolution and flexibility in acquisition and sensor integration. Besides that, UAV is not only the cheapest platform for image acquisition, but it is also the easiest platform to operate in repeated data collections over a changing area. However, their role as a low-cost airborne platform for capturing high-resolution, geo- referenced imagery has not been fully utilized. In practice, UAV images will be used if they provide the required accuracy and an additional value and if they are competitive in terms of economic aspect compared to other measurement technologies. This paper will show how the UAV images can be used to monitor smaller sites such as archaeological sites, to monitor green urban areas and their application in agriculture together with the economic aspects of performing certain tasks

UAV, change detection, site monitoring

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