Studying Coastal Salt Marshes using Drones with Andrea Celeste Curcio | GEOTalks Ep. 1

The effects of climate change are present around the world, especially in coastal salt marshes. In this episode, we speak with Andrea Celeste Curcio, who has been evaluating the performance of drone/UAV technology (photogrammetry/lidar) and hyperspectral sensors for researching salt marshes over time. She explores the utility of using drones for monitoring coastal ecosystems and shares her insights on the process. Learn from the world of GIS on this episode of GEOTalks. Subscribe and tune in on the third Wednesday of the month for new episodes! Topics 00:13 - Introduction 01:01 - Salt marshes 03:55 - The importance of carbon sinks 04:51 - Threats to salt marshes 07:00 - iBESBLUE Project 07:42 - Goals of the iBESBLUE Project 08:44 - Andrea’s salt marsh analogy 09:24 - Drone/UAV data collection and processing 12:36 - Drone flight frequency 14:49 - The utility of remote sensing 17:31 - Research findings 18:51 - Conservation efforts in Cadiz Bay 21:44 - Connect with Andrea 23:38 - Wrap-up Resources Andrea’s profile on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?... Drone service of the University of Cádiz: https://dron.uca.es/ iBESBLUE Project: https://ibesblue.uca.es/ iBESBLUE on LinkedIn:   / ibesblue   Connect with Andrea:   / andrea-celeste-curcio   GEOTalks is a Blue Marble Geographics® podcast. As a leader in GIS software development, Blue Marble Geographics provides professional-grade tools to users at every level. Blue Marble’s expertise spans the geospatial technology sector, focusing on coordinate conversion and management, lidar and photogrammetric point cloud processing, and user-driven product development. Visit our website at https://www.bluemarblegeo.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://go.bluemarblegeo.com/subscribe Email [email protected] for inquiries.