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New Developments and Environmental Applications of Drones

Proceedings of FinDrones 2023

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2024

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Editors:
  1. Tomi Westerlund

    1. University of Turku, Turku, Finland

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  2. Jorge Peña Queralta

    1. University of Turku, Turku, Finland

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  • Presents conference papers from FinDrones 2023
  • Explores autonomous drone use in fields like environmental monitoring, agriculture, and search and rescue missions
  • Emphasizes drone applications in addressing challenges in Finland

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About this book

This volume presents the conference proceedings from FinDrones 2023. The book highlights recent drone technology developments by experts and academicians for applications in agriculture, forestry, and other industries. This iteration of FinDrones presents research using autonomous drones in various fields from environmental monitoring to farm robotics and from photogrammetry to search and rescue missions. Emphasis is placed on contextualizing the conference presentations and content to Finland and the unique challenges typical to the region. The work will interest academicians, entrepreneurs, and professionals involved in remote sensing applications of unmanned aerial vehicles and enthusiasts of drone technological developments.

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Table of contents (9 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Wild Swarms: Autonomous Drones for Environmental Monitoring and Protection

    • Fabrice Saffre, Hannu Karvonen, Hanno Hildmann
    Pages 1-32

  3. Connecting Different Drone Operations with the Farm Robotic Management

    • Jere Kaivosoja, Kari Kolehmainen, Oskar Marko, Ari Ronkainen, Nina Pajević, Marko Panić et al.
    Pages 33-41

  4. Is Alice Really in Wonderland? UWB-Based Proof of Location for UAVs with Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain

    • Lei Fu, Paola Torrico Morón, Jorge Peña Queralta, David Hästbacka, Harry Edelman, Tomi Westerlund
    Pages 43-56

  5. Accuracy Assessment of UAS Photogrammetry with GCP and PPK-Assisted Georeferencing

    • Anssi Rauhala
    Pages 57-73

  6. Simulation Analysis of Exploration Strategies and UAV Planning for Search and Rescue

    • Phuoc Nguyen Thuan, Jorge Peña Queralta, Tomi Westerlund
    Pages 75-84

  7. Evaluating the Performance of Multi-scan Integration for UAV LiDAR-Based Tracking

    • Iacopo Catalano, Jorge Peña Queralta, Tomi Westerlund
    Pages 85-95

  8. Applications and Challenges Related to the Use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Environment Monitoring

    • Jukka Sassi, Vadim Kramar, Matti Mõttus, Olli Ihalainen, Sami Siikanen
    Pages 97-114

  9. UAV-Borne Measurements of Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence (SIF) at a Boreal Site

    • Marika Honkanen, Pauli Heikkinen, Alasdair MacArthur, Tea Thum, Rigel Kivi, Hannakaisa Lindqvist
    Pages 115-135

  10. Thermal Drone Images as a Predictor of Soil Moisture Values

    • Janne Kalmari, Iita Appelgren, Gilbert Ludwig, Hannu Haapala
    Pages 137-148

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 149-150
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Tomi Westerlund, Jorge Peña Queralta

About the editors

Dr Tomi Westerlund is a professor in robotics and autonomous systems. He is the research group leader of the Turku Intelligent Embedded and Robotics Systems (TIERS) lab at the University of Turku, Finland. TIERS’s main research interests are in multi-robot systems, autonomous robots and edge computing. The main application areas for TIERS include collaborative and heterogeneous multi-robot systems, blockchain technology for distributed robotic systems, localization and mapping of urban and unstructured environments, hardware accelerators for ROS and embedded and distributed intelligence. In essence, to better understand how robots operate and can perform a variety of functions in different fields like environmental monitoring, delivery, agriculture, and search and rescue missions. Prof. Westerlund is a senior member of IEEE.



Jorge Peña Queralta received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics and physics engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain, in 2016, the M.Sc. (Tech.) degree in ICT from the University of Turku, Turku, Finland, in 2018, the M.Eng. degree in electronics and communication engineering from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 2018, and the Ph.D. (Tech.) degree from the University of Turku in 2022. He is a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Turku Intelligent Embedded and Robotic Systems Group, University of Turku. His research interests include multi-robot systems, collaborative autonomy, distributed perception, and robot learning.

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