Drones for Environmental Assessment

Drones have become a powerful tool for scientific studies, providing high resolution images and allowing studies in inhospitable and/or difficult to access places. In this book we address a case study of the drone application to assess the environmental quality of the sandbank vegetation on the coast of southern Brazil, using free software for image processing and analysis. It was also evaluated the reliability of the data through accuracy indices, validating the use of drones for environmental analysis.