UAV to Inform Restoration: A Case Study From a California Tidal Marsh

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• Journal Title:
  Frontiers in Environmental Science
• Personal Author:
  Haskins, John ; Endris, Charlie ; Thomsen, Alexandra S. ; Gerbl, Fuller ; Fountain, Monique C. ; Wasson, Kerstin
• NOAA Program & Office:
  Education and outreach ; NOS (National Ocean Service) ; OCM (Office for Coastal Management)
• Description:
  Monitoring of environmental restoration is essential to communicate progress and improve outcomes of current and future projects, but is typically done in a very limited capacity due to budget and personnel constraints. Unoccupied aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been used in a variety of natural and human-influenced environments and have been found to be time- and cost-efficient, but have not yet been widely applied to restoration contexts. In this study, we evaluated the utility of UAVs as an innovative tool for monitoring tidal marsh restoration.
• Keywords:
  Marsh Restoration, Remote Sensing, Tidal marsh, Topography, Digital elevation model, Image classification, Unmanned aerial vehicle, Unoccupied aerial systems
• Source:
  Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.642906
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA16SEC4810009 ; Grant no. NA20NOS4200097 ; Grant no. NA19NOS4200050 ; Grant no. NA18NOS4200075 ; Grant no. NA17NOS4200041 ; Grant no. NA16NOS4200073
• Rights Information:
  CC BY
• Compliance:
  Submitted
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  urn:sha256:c090117e5870e688e1ee5bf4b731c0987cefa5ad285986f4bc326710da1e7a28
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  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/32427/noaa_32427_DS1.pdf
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