Urban Remote Sensing

Besides, several technical issues have been identified that can improve the use of UAS in urban areas. Specifically, robust navigation systems should be designed to address the signal occlusion and multi‐path effects caused by urban structures; more intelligent autonomous operation modes will need to be developed to account for the issue of urban obstacles; more sophisticated data processing systems should be developed that can help improve the limited performance of currently small, lightweight platforms; and automated path planning systems are urgently needed. There is still much room for the UAS technology to develop and improve for urban remote sensing. A surge of UAS applications in urban studies can be foreseen when regulations have been developed to better integrate UAS into the general airspace and when technologies have been improved for better UAS urban operations.

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