TY - JOUR AU - Gomez, Christopher AU - Purdie, Heather PY - 2016 DA - 2016/11/25 TI - UAV- based Photogrammetry and Geocomputing for Hazards and Disaster Risk Monitoring – A Review JO - Geoenvironmental Disasters SP - 23 VL - 3 IS - 1 AB - The unraveling of the human-induced climate-change crisis has put to the forth the ability of human-beings to impact the planet as a whole, but the discourse of politics has also emphasized the ability of the human race to adapt and counterweigh the environmental change, in turn increasing the public expectation that one should be able to control nature and its affects. Such cozy and reassured society consequently puts an increasing amount of pressure on hazards assessors, emergency and disaster managers “to get it right”, and not only to save the majority, but to save all. To reach such level of competency, emergency relief teams and disaster managers have to work always faster with an increasing need of high quality, high-resolution geospatial data. This need is being partly resolved with the usage of UAV (Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles), both on the ground and airborne. SN - 2197-8670 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40677-016-0060-y DO - 10.1186/s40677-016-0060-y ID - Gomez2016 ER -