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2021
Practical Implementation of a General Numerical Lifting-Line Method, Cory D. Goates and Douglas F. Hunsaker; AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Technology Proves an Effective and Efficient Technique to Identify Critical Native Fish Habitat, Paul D. Thompson, Emanuel A. Vasquez, Ian Gowing, Tim Edgar, Ann Neville, and Allison Jones; North American Journal of Fisheries Management
2020
Influence of Model Grid Size on the Estimation of Surface Fluxes Using the Two Source Energy Balance Model and sUAS Imagery in Vineyards, Ayman Nassar, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, William Kustas, Hector Nieto, Mac McKee, Lawrence E. Hipps, David King Stevens, Joseph Alfieri, John Prueger, Maria Mar Alsina, Lynn McKee, Calvin Coopmans, Luis Sanchez, and Nick Dokoozlian; Remote Sensing
2019
Estimation of Soil Moisture at Different Soil Levels Using Machine Learning Techniques and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Multispectral Imagery, Mahyar Aboutalebi, L. Niel Allen, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Mac McKee, and Calvin Coopmans; Autonomous Air and Ground Sensing Systems for Agricultural Optimization and Phenotyping IV
Validation of Digital Surface Models (DSMs) Retrieved From Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Point Clouds Using Geometrical Information From Shadows, Mahyar Aboutalebi, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Mac McKee, William Kustas, Héctor Nieto, and Calvin Coopmans; Autonomous Air and Ground Sensing Systems for Agricultural Optimization and Phenotyping IV
The Impact of Shadows on Partitioning of Radiometric Temperature to Canopy and Soil Temperature Based on the Contextual Two-Source Energy Balance Model (TSEB-2T), Mahyar Aboutalebi, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Mac McKee, Hector Nieto, William Kustas, and Calvin Coopmans; Autonomous Air and Ground Sensing Systems for Agricultural Optimization and Phenotyping IV
Estimation of Surface Thermal Emissivity in a Vineyard for UAV Microbolometer Thermal Cameras Using NASA HyTES Hyperspectral Thermal, and Landsat and AggieAir Optical Data, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Mahyar Aboutalebi, Timothy Wright, Ayman Nassar, Pierre Guillevic, Lawrence Hipps, Feng Gao, Kevin Jim, Maria Mar Alsina, Calvin Coopmans, Mac McKee, and William Kustas; Autonomous Air and Ground Sensing Systems for Agricultural Optimization and Phenotyping IV
2018
Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Precipitation and Effective Rainfall Using Gauge Observations, Satellite, and Gridded Climate Data for Agricultural Water Management in the Upper Colorado River Basin, Mahyar Aboutalebi, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, and L. Niel Allen; Remote Sensing
Multispectral Remote Sensing for Yield Estimation Using High-Resolution Imagery From an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Mahyar Aboutalebi, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, and Niel Allen; Autonomous Air and Ground Sensing Systems for Agricultural Optimization and Phenotyping III
Assessment of Different Methods for Shadow Detection in High-Resolution Optical Imagery and Evaluation of Shadow Impact on Calculation of NDVI and Evapotranspiration, Mahyar Aboutalebi, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, William P. Kustas, Héctor Nieto, Calvin Coopmans, and Mac McKee; Irrigation Science
Behavior of Vegetation/Soil Indices in Shaded and Sunlit Pixels and Evaluation of Different Shadow Compensation Methods Using UAV High-Resolution Imagery over Vineyards, Mahyar Aboutalebi, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Mac McKee, William P. Kustas, Héctor Nieto, and Calvin Coopmans; Autonomous Air and Ground Sensing Systems for Agricultural Optimization and Phenotyping III
Estimating Discharge in Low-Order Rivers With High-Resolution Aerial Imagery, Tyler V. King, Bethany T. Neilson, and Mitchell T. Rasmussen; Water Resources Research
The Grape Remote Sensing Atmospheric Profile and Evapotranspiration Experiment, William P. Kustas, Martha C. Anderson, Joseph G. Alfieri, Kyle Knipper, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Christopher K. Parry, Hector Nieto, Nurit Agam, William A. White, Feng Gao, Lynn McKee, John H. Prueger, Lawrence E. Hipps, Sebastian A. Los, Maria Mar Alsina, Luis Sanchez, Brent Sams, Nick Dokoozlian, Mac McKee, Scott B. Jones, Yun Yang, Tiffany G. Wilson, Fangni Lei, Andrew McElrone, Josh L. Heitman, Adam M. Howard, Kirk Post, Forrest Melton, and Christopher Hain; Bulletin American Meteorological Society
Implications of Sensor Inconsistencies and Remote Sensing Error in the Use of Small Unmanned Aerial Systems for Generation of Information Products for Agricultural Management, Mac McKee, Ayman Nassar, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Mahyar Aboutalebi, and William Kustas; Autonomous Air and Ground Sensing Systems for Agricultural Optimization and Phenotyping III
Evaluation of TSEB Turbulent Fluxes Using Different Methods for the Retrieval of Soil and Canopy Component Temperatures from UAV Thermal and Multispectral Imagery, Héctor Nieto, William P. Kustas, Alfonso F. Torres-Rúa, Joseph G. Alfieri, Feng Gao, Martha C. Anderson, W. Alex White, Lisheng Song, María del Mar Alsina, John H. Prueger, Mac McKee, Manal Elarab, and Lynn G. McKee; Irrigation Science
Inter-Comparison of Thermal Measurements Using Ground-Based Sensors, UAV Thermal Cameras, and Eddy Covariance Radiometers, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Héctor Nieto, Christopher Parry, Manal Elarab, Wesley Collatz, Calvin Coopmans, Lynn McKee, Mac McKee, and William P. Kustas; Autonomous Air and Ground Sensing Systems for Agricultural Optimization and Phenotyping III
2017
Challenges in bridge inspection using small unmanned aerial systems: Results and lessons learned, Sattar Dorafshan, Marc Maguire, Nathan V. Hoffer, and Calvin Coopmans; 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)
Spatial Scale Gap Filling Using an Unmanned Aerial System: A Statistical Downscaling Method for Applications in Precision Agriculture, Leila Hassan-Esfahani, Ardeshir M. Ebtehaj, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, and Mac McKee; Sensors
Spatial Root Zone Soil Water Content Estimation in Agricultural Lands Using Bayesian-Based Artificial Neural Networks and High-Resolution Visual, NIR, and Thermal Imagery, Leila Hassan-Esfahani, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Austin M. Jensen, and Mac McKee; Irrigation and Drainage
Improving communication security of open source UAVs: Encrypting radio control link, Michal Podhradsky, Calvin Coopmans, and Nathan V. Hoffer; 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)
Multi-drone operations: a case study of safety and operational considerations, Daniel Robinson, Nathan V. Hoffer, and Calvin Coopmans; Journal of Air Traffic Control
Vicarious Calibration of sUAS Microbolometer Temperature Imagery for Estimation of Radiometric Land Surface Temperature., Alfonso F. Torres-Rua; Sensors
2016
AggieAir unmanned aerial system traffic integration management: A case study with ADS-B out, Calvin Coopmans, Nathan V. Hoffer, Austin Jensen, and Daniel Robinson; 2016 IEEE/AIAA 35th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)
Computer Vision–Based Orthorectification and Georeferencing of Aerial Image Sets, Mohammadreza Faraji, Xiaojun Qi, and Austin Jensen; Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
Spanning High and Low Resolution Remote Sensing Products in Precision Agriculture, Leila Hassan-Esfahani, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Ardeshir M. Ebtehaj, Austin M. Jensen, and Mac McKee; 2016 World Environmental & Water Resources Congress
Life on the edge: reproductive mode and rate of invasive Phragmites australis patch expansion, Karin M. Kettenring, K. E. Mock, B. Zaman, and Mac McKee; Biological Invasions
Estimation of Surface Soil Moisture in Irrigated Lands by Assimilation of Landsat Vegetation Indices, Surface Energy Balance Products, and Relevance Vector Machines, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Andres M. Ticlavilca, Roula Bachour, and Mac McKee; Water
2015
Estimating chlorophyll with thermal and broadband multispectral high resolution imagery from an unmanned aerial system using relevance vector machines for precision agriculture, Manal Elarab, Andres M. Ticlavilca, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Inga Maslova, and Mac McKee; International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Estimating Chlorophyll with Thermal and Broadband Multispectral High Resolution Imagery from an Unmanned Aerial System Using Relevance Vector Machines for Precision Agriculture, Manal Elarab, Andres M. Ticlavilca, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Inga Maslova, and Mac McKee; International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation
High Resolution Multi-Spectral Imagery and Learning Machines in Precision Irrigation Water Management, Leila Hassan-Esfahani
Assessment of Surface Soil Moisture Using High-Resolution Multi-Spectral Imagery and Artificial Neural Networks, Leila Hassan-Esfahani, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Austin M. Jensen, and Mac McKee; Remote Sensing
High-Resolution Root-Zone Soil Water Content Estimation Using Bayesian-Based Artificial Neural Networks and, Leila Hassan-Esfahani, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Austin M. Jensen, and Mac McKee; Irrigation and Drainage
Assessment of Optimal Irrigation Water Allocation for Pressurized Irrigation System Using Water Balance Approach, Learning Machines, and Remotely Sensed Data, Leila Hassan-Esfahani, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, and Mac McKee; Agricultural Water Management
Assessment of Surface Soil Moisture Using High-Resolution Multi-Spectral Imagery and Artificial Neural Networks, Leila Hassan-Esfahani, Alfonso Torres-Rua, Austin Jensen, and Mac McKee; Remote Sensing
Assessment of optimal irrigation water allocation for pressurized irrigation system using water balance approach, learning machines, and remotely sensed data, Leila Hassan-Esfahani, Alfonso Torres-Rua, and Mac McKee; Agricultural Water Management
Small low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle System identification by Error Filtering Online Learning (EFOL) enhanced least squares method, Nathan V. Hoffer, Calvin Coopmans, R. R. Fullmer, and YangQuan Chen; 2015 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)
Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Use in Precision Agriculture: The AggieAir Experience, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Manal Al-Arab, Leila Hassan-Esfahani, Austin M. Jensen, and Mac McKee; 2015 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)
2014
Cyber-Physical Systems Enabled By Unmanned Aerial System-Based Personal Remote Sensing: Data Mission Quality-Centric Design Architectures, Calvin Coopmans
Cyber-physical systems enabled by small unmanned aerial vehicles, Calvin Coopmans, Brandon Stark, Austin Jensen, YangQuan Chen, and Mac McKee; Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Multiple UAV Formations for Cooperative Source Seeking and Contour Mapping of a Radiative Signal Field, Jinlu Han and YangQuan Chen; Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
Pitch Loop Control of a VTOL UAV Using Fractional Order Controller, Jinlu Han, Long Di, Calvin Coopmans, and YangQuan Chen; Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
Topsoil Moisture Estimation for Precision Agriculture Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Multispectral Imagery, Leila Hassan-Esfahani, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Andres M. Ticlavilca, Austin M. Jensen, and Mac McKee; 2014 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
System Identification of a Small Low-Cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Using Flight Data from Low-Cost Sensors, Nathan V. Hoffer
Innovative Payloads for Small Unmanned Aerial System-Based Personal Remote Sensing and Applications, Austin M. Jensen
Procedures for processing thermal images using low-cost microbolometer cameras for small unmanned aerial systems, Austin Jensen, Mac McKee, and YangQuan Chen; 2014 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
Concept of Operations of Small Unmanned Aerial Systems: Basis for Airworthiness towards Personal Remote Sensing, Brandon Stark, Calvin Coopmans, and YangQuan Chen; Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Retrieval of Spectral Reflectance of High Resolution Multispectral Imagery Acquired with an Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle: AggieAir™, Bushra Zaman, Austin Jensen, Shannon R. Clemens, and Mac McKee; Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
2013
Assessment of Reference Evapotranspiration by the Hargreaves Method in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, Roula Bachour, Wynn R. Walker, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, and Mac McKee; Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Fractional-Order Complementary Filters for Small Unmanned Aerial System Navigation, Calvin Coopmans, Austin M. Jensen, and YangQuan Chen; Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems
Radiation and Impedance Characteristics of a Circular Loop Antenna Driven by Fractional Order Electronics, Calvin Coopmans, Hadi Malek, and Edmund Spencer; 2013 ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications
Low-cost Multi-UAV Technologies for Contour Mapping of Nuclear Radiation Field, Jinlu Han, Yaojin Xu, Long Di, and YangQuan Chen; Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
A Survey and Categorization of Small Low-Cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System Identification, Nathan V. Hoffer, Calvin Coopmans, Austin M. Jensen, and YangQuan Chen; Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
Monte Carlo Simulation Analysis of Tagged Fish Radio Tracking Performance by Swarming Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Fractional Order Potential Fields, Austin M. Jensen, David K. Geller, and YangQuan Chen; Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
Design, modeling and validation of a t-tail unmanned aerial vehicle, Z. Li, Nathan V. Hoffer, B. Stark, and YangQuan Chen; Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems
Design, Modeling and Validation of a T-Tail Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Zhuo Li, Nathan Hoffer, Brandon Stark, and YangQuan Chen Prof.; Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems
Battery State-Of-Charge Based Altitude Controller for Small, Low Cost Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Michal Podhradsky, Calvin Coopmans, and Austin Jensen; Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
Concept of operations for personal remote sensing unmanned aerial systems, Brandon Stark, Calvin Coopmans, and YangQuan Chen; Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
2012
Evaluation and Development of Unmanned Aircraft (UAV) for UDOT Needs, Steven L. Barfuss, Austin Jensen, and Shannon Clemens
Rotary-Wing Open Source Autonomous Miniature (ROSAM) Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Design and Implementation for the 2012 AUVSI SUAS Competition, Jarret Bone, Nathan Hoffer, Aaron Dennis, Christopher M. Coffin, Kason Bennett, and YangQuan Chen Prof.
Cooperative Remote Sensing and Actuation Using Networked Unmanned Vehicles, H Chao and YQ Chen; Cooperative Remote Sensing and Actuation Using Networked Unmanned Vehicles
Procedures for Correcting Digital Camera Imagery Acquired by the AggieAir Remote Sensing Platform, Shannon R. Clemens
A Data Fusion System for Attitude Estimation of Low-cost Miniature UAVs, Long Di, Tobias Fromm, and YangQuan Chen; Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
Development and Transient Analysis of a Helical-coil Steam Generator for High Temperature Reactors, Nathan V. Hoffer, N. A. Anderson, and P. Sabharwall; Journal of Young Investigators
A framework for analyzing human factors in unmanned aerial systems, Brandon Stark, Calvin Coopmans, and YangQuan Chen; 2012 5th International Symposium on Resilient Control Systems (ISRCS)
Use of a Multivariate Relevance Vector Machine for Estimation of the Distribution and Spread of Wetlands Species, B. Zaman and Mac McKee
Fusion of remotely sensed data for soil moisture estimation using relevance vector and support vector machines, B. Zaman, Mac McKee, and Christopher M. U. Neale; International Journal of Remote Sensing
2011
Modeling a Helical-coil Steam Generator in RELAP5- 3D for the Next Generation Nuclear Plant, Nathan V. Hoffer, Piyush Sabharwall, and Nolan A. Anderson
Calibration Method for Aerial Vehicles, Austin Jensen and YangQuan Chen Prof.
2010
Cooperative Remote Sensing and Actuation Using Networked Unmanned Vehicles, Haiyang Chao
Autopilots for small unmanned aerial vehicles: A survey, HaiYang Chao, YongCan Cao, and YangQuan Chen; International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems
Roll-channel fractional order controller design for a small fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle, Haiyang Chao, Ying Luo, Long Di, and YangQuan Chen Prof.; Control Engineering Practice
Architecture, Inertial Navigation, and Payload Designs for Low-Cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Personal Remote Sensing, Calvin Coopmans
Forecasting Daily Potential Evapotranspiration Using Machine Learning and Limited Climatic Data, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Wynn R. Walker, and Mac McKee; Agricultural Water Management
2009
AggieAir: Towards low-cost cooperative multispectral remote sensing using small unmanned aircraft systems, Haiyang Chao, Austin Jensen, Yiding Han, YangQuan Chen, and Mac McKee; Advances in Geoscience and Remote Sensing
gRAID: A Geospatial Real-Time Aerial Image Display for a Low-Cost Autonomous Multispectral Remote Sensing Platform (AggieAir), Austin M. Jensen
2008
Downscaling and Assimilation of Surface Soil Moisture Using Ground Truth Measurements, Yasir H. Kaheil, M. Kashif Gill, Mac McKee, Luis A. Bastidas, and Enrique Rosero; IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Downscaling and Forecasting of Evapotranspiration Using a Synthetic Model of Wavelets and Support Vector Machines, Yasir H. Kaheil, Enrique Rosero, M. Kashif Gill, Mac McKee, and Luis A. Bastidas; IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Cutthroat Measurement Flume Calibration for Free and Submerged Flow Using a Single Equation, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua and Gary P. Merkley; Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
2007
Mobile Manipulator Networks: Platform Development and Applications, Austin Jensen and YangQuan Chen; ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications and the 19th Reliability, Stress Analysis, and Failure Prevention Conference
2006
Improved Calibration of Cutthroat Flumes, Ryan C. Weber, Gary P. Merkley, Gaylord V. Skogerboe, and Alfonso F. Torres-Rua; Irrigation Science
2005
Evidence and Implications of Recent Climate Change in Terrestrial Regions of the Arctic, Larry D. Hinzman, Neil D. Bettez, F Stuart Chapin III, Mark B. Dyurgerov, Chris L. Fastie, Brad Griffith, Robert D. Hollister, Allen S. Hope, Henry P. Huntington, and Anne M. Jensen