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Understanding spatio-temporal complexity of vegetation using drones, what could we improve?
Unraveling the intricate spatial and temporal complexities of vegetation represents a crucial key to understanding ecosystem functioning. Drones, as cutting-edge technology, hold immense potential in bridging the gap between on-ground measurements and satellite remote sensing data. Nonetheless, a multitude of challenges still looms, with one of the foremost being the nuanced identification of scales that strike a balance between capturing maximum complexity while minimizing measurement errors. To explore how current research deals with the above-mentioned challenges, we carried out a literature survey on research studies employing drones to characterize natural and semi-natural vegetation. We selected papers related to the role of spatial and/or temporal complexity in ecosystem state, function and/or services. Our result showed that most studies focused on ecosystem …