Research

The project Finnish UAV Ecosystem is funded by The Academy of Finland (decision numbers 337018, 338055, 337878, 337825, 338080)

Here, we will publish FUAVE-related research results.

FUAVE consortium partners’ drone-related publications list (from 07/2020 onwards):

Tiusanen, R., Heikkilä, E., Välisalo, T., & Öz, E. (2023). Identification of Emerging Safety and Security Risks in Drone Operations at Work Sites. In 16th WCEAM Proceedings (pp. 499-507). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Kangasoja, J., Paajanen, K. & Hinkula, H. (2023). Drooni säästää ympäristöä korvatessaan auton, Ilmailu-lehti, Suomen Ilmailuliitto.
Kanerva, H.; Honkavaara, E.; Näsi, R.; Hakala, T.; Junttila, S.; Karila, K.; Koivumäki, N.; Alves Oliveira, R.; Pelto-Arvo, M.; Pölönen, I.; Tuviala, J.; Östersund, M.; Lyytikäinen-Saarenmaa, P. Estimating Tree Health Decline Caused by Ips typographus L. from UAS RGB Images Using a Deep One-Stage Object Detection Neural Network. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 6257. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14246257
George, A.; Koivumäki, N.; Hakala, T.; Suomalainen, J.; Honkavaara, E. Visual-Inertial Odometry Using High Flying Altitude Drone Datasets. Drones 2023, 7, 36. https://doi.org/10.3390/drones7010036
Saffre, F., Hildmann, H., Karvonen, H. & Lind, T. (2022). Monitoring and Cordoning Wildfires with an Autonomous Swarm of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Drones, 6(10), 301.
Öz, E., Heikkilä, E., & Tiusanen, R. (2022). Development of an Organisational Certification Process for Specific Category Drone Operations. Drones, 6(10), 278.
Alves Oliveira, R.; Marcato Junior, J.; Soares Costa, C.; Näsi, R.; Koivumäki, N.; Niemeläinen, O.; Kaivosoja, J.; Nyholm, L.; Pistori, H.; Honkavaara, E. Silage Grass Sward Nitrogen Concentration and Dry Matter Yield Estimation Using Deep Regression and RGB Images Captured by UAV. Agronomy 2022, 12, 1352. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12061352
Santos, L.D., Tommaselli, A.M.G., Berveglieri, A., Imai, N.N., Oliveira, R.A., Honkavaara, E., Geometric calibration of a hyperspectral frame camera with simultaneous determination of sensors misalignment, ISPRS Open Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ophoto.2022.100015.
Liang, X., Kukko, A., Balenovic, I., Saarinen, N., Junttila, S., Kankare, V., Holopainen, M., Mokroš, M., Surový, P., Kaartinen, H., Honkavaara, E., Näsi, R., Hollaus, M., Tian, J., Yu, X., Pan, J., Cai, S., Virtanen, J.-P., Wang, Y., Hyyppä, J. Close-Range Remote Sensing of Forests – The state of the art, challenges, and opportunities for systems and data acquisitions. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine (GRSM) 2022. IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/MGRS.2022.3168135.
Karila, K.; Alves Oliveira, R.; Ek, J.; Kaivosoja, J.; Koivumäki, N.; Korhonen, P.; Niemeläinen, O.; Nyholm, L.; Näsi, R.; Pölönen, I.; Honkavaara, E. Estimating Grass Sward Quality and Quantity Parameters Using Drone Remote Sensing with Deep Neural Networks. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 2692. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14112692
J. Laarni, Väätänen, A., Karvonen, H., Lastusilta T., & Saﬀre, F. (2022). Development of a Concept of Operations for a Counter-Swarm Scenario. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 49-63). Springer, Cham.
Kramar, V. Paajanen, K., Ratia, K., Honkavaara, E., Röning, J., Hänninen, T., Oravasaari T. & Karvonen, H. (2022), FUAVE: Supporting the Finnish Unmanned Aviation Knowledge Base & Business, The Professional Drone Operations Market, Edition 2.1. p. 42-44.
Kangasoja, J., Paajanen, K. & Hinkula, H. (2022). Droonien lennättäminen on pääsääntöisesti luvanvaraista toimintaa, Oamk Journal 73/2022.
Kangasoja, J., Paajanen, K. & Hinkula, H. (2022). Iso drooni kuljettaa satoja kiloja, Ilmailu, 85(4), 14-16.
Junttila, S.; Näsi, R.; Koivumäki, N.; Imangholiloo, M.; Saarinen, N.; Raisio, J.; Holopainen, M.; Hyyppä, H.; Hyyppä, J.; Lyytikäinen-Saarenmaa, P.; Vastaranta, M.; Honkavaara, E. Multispectral Imagery Provides Benefits for Mapping Spruce Tree Decline Due to Bark Beetle Infestation When Acquired Late in the Season. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 909. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14040909
Nex, F., Armenakis, C., Cramer, M., Cucci, D.A., Gerke, M., Honkavaara, E., Kukko, A., Persello, C., Skaloud, J. (2022). UAV in the advent of the twenties: Where we stand and what is next, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vol. 184, 2022, pp. 215-242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2021.12.006.
Prieto, R., Lehmuskoski, J., Karlsson, T., Koski, P., Ihonen, J. Lundqvist, R., Gising, A., Martinsen, A. (2021). Special UAV requirements for Nordic conditions. Nordic Drone Initiative White Paper. VTT-M-01038-21. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6077534
Kramar, V., Röning, J., Nikolakopoulos, G., & Tomasello, F.: ‘Urban Air Mobility Overview – the European Landscape’, in Proceedings of the 30th Conference of FRUCT Association, 2021, pp. 99–106. https://doi.org/10.23919/FRUCT53335.2021.9599973
Kramar, V., Hinkula, H., Kolli, T., Rauhala, A., Erkkilä, J., & Röning, J.: ‘Overview of the Nordic Challenges for Unmanned Aircraft Systems’, in Proceedings of the 30th Conference of FRUCT Association, 2021, pp. 86–98. https://doi.org/10.23919/FRUCT53335.2021.9599965
Ratia K., Hinkula H., Kramar V.: ‘Drone Swarm, The Finnish UAV Ecosystem Trial’, in Proceedings of the 30th Conference of FRUCT Association, 2021, pp. 403–405.
Kramar, V., Röning, J., Erkkilä, J., Hinkula, H., Kolli, T., Rauhala, A.: ‘Unmanned Aircraft Systems and the Nordic Challenges’, in New Developments and Environmental Applications of Drones – Proceedings of FinDrones 2020 | Tarmo Lipping et al. | Springer, 2021, pp. 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77860-6.
P. Wijesiri N.B.A, J. Haapola and T. Samarasinghe, “The Effect of Concurrent Multi-priority Data Streams on the MAC Layer Performance of IEEE 802.11p and C-V2X Mode 4,” in IEEE Transactions on Communications, doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2021.3119703.
Saﬀre, F., Hildmann, H., Karvonen, H. & Lind, T. (2022). Self-swarming for Multi-Robot Systems deployed for Situational Awareness. In Lipping, T.; Linna, P. & Narra, N.: New Developments and Environmental Applications of Drones (pp. 51-72). Springer, Cham. ISBN 978-3-030-77859-0.
Suomalainen, J., Oliveira, R.A., Hakala, T., Koivumäki, N., Markelin, L., Näsi, R. & Honkavaara, E. (2021). Direct reflectance transformation methodology for drone-based hyperspectral imaging. Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 266, 2021, 112691, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112691
Saﬀre, F., Hildmann, H., Karvonen, H. (2021). The Design Challenges of Drone Swarm Control. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 408-426). Springer, Cham.
Regmi, A., Hänninen, T., Leinonen, M.E., Pärssinen, A. & Berg, M. (2021). Dynamic Dual Polarized GNSS Reﬂectometry Using UAV. 15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2021, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2021
Wijesiri, G.P. Haapola, J. & Samarasinghe, T. (2020). A Discrete-Time Markov Chain Based Comparison of the MAC Layer Performance of C-V2X Mode 4 and IEEE 802.11p. In IEEE Transactions on Communications, doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2020.3044340.
Wijesiri G.P., Haapola, J. & Samarasinghe, T. (2020). The Effect of Multiple Access Categories on the MAC Layer Performance of IEEE 802.11p. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, December 7 – 11, 2020.
Kaivosoja, J., Hautsalo, J., Heikkinen, J., Hiltunen, L., Ruuttunen, P., Näsi, R., Niemeläinen, O., Lemsalu, M., Honkavaara, E. & Salonen, J. (2021). Reference Measurements in Developing UAV Systems for Detecting Pests, Weeds, and Diseases. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 1238. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13071238
Khoramshahi, E., Oliveira, R.A., Koivumäki, N. & Honkavaara, E. (2020) An Image-Based Real-Time Georeferencing Scheme for a UAV Based on a New Angular Parametrization. Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 3185. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12193185
Hildmann, H., Eledlebi, K., Saffre, F., & Isakovic, A. F. (2021). The Swarm Is More Than the Sum of Its Drones. Development and Future of Internet of Drones (IoD): Insights, Trends and Road Ahead, Chapter 1, pp. 1-55.
George, A. (2021). Analysis of Visual-Inertial Odometry Algorithms for Outdoor Drone Applications. Aalto University.
Autioniemi, E., Tyni, J., Mäläskä, T. & Posio, M. (2020). Droonilla hankitun kuvamateriaalin käyttäminen pelin ympäristön luomiseen. ePOOKI ISNN 1798-2022.