# Mini-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Remote Sensing: Techniques, Applications, and Prospects

## TL;DR

This paper reviews recent advances in UAV-based remote sensing, highlighting its advantages, key technologies, applications, and future prospects to guide further research in the field.

## Contribution

It provides a systematic survey of UAV remote sensing techniques, applications, challenges, and future directions, filling a gap in comprehensive overview for researchers.

## Key findings

- UAVs offer high flexibility and resolution for remote sensing.
- Key challenges include data processing and platform stability.
- Applications span from environmental monitoring to disaster management.

## Abstract

The past few decades have witnessed the great progress of unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs) in civilian fields, especially in photogrammetry and remote sensing. In contrast with the platforms of manned aircraft and satellite, the UAV platform holds many promising characteristics: flexibility, efficiency, high-spatial/temporal resolution, low cost, easy operation, etc., which make it an effective complement to other remote-sensing platforms and a cost-effective means for remote sensing. Considering the popularity and expansion of UAV-based remote sensing in recent years, this paper provides a systematic survey on the recent advances and future prospectives of UAVs in the remote-sensing community. Specifically, the main challenges and key technologies of remote-sensing data processing based on UAVs are discussed and summarized firstly. Then, we provide an overview of the widespread applications of UAVs in remote sensing. Finally, some prospects for future work are discussed. We hope this paper will provide remote-sensing researchers an overall picture of recent UAV-based remote sensing developments and help guide the further research on this topic.