Unmanned Aerial System Applications to Coastal Environments

The objective of this chapter is to acquaint the reader with the potentiality of UAS-based surveys on coastal environments through a discussion of examples available in the very recent literature and through the skills achieved by the authors in this field. After a short introduction on UAV models that can be used to perform aerial surveys and a short description on the available methodologies to process the data acquired by visible and multispectral sensors, the chapter will focus on several UAS applications referred to coastal environments.