Bandini, Filippo

Bauer-Gottwein, Peter

Jiang, Liguang

Klint Jensen, Inger

Luthi, Beat

Pheiffer Sunding, Tanya

Smith, Ole

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Unmanned Airborne Vehicles (UAVs) for monitoring small streams and optimizing river maintenance:UAV-borne observations of water level, surface velocity and discharge

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