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The question is quite complex and involves several research fields (Engineering, GIS, image processing, etc.)

To summarize, first there is the choice of drone and camera to use. This particular point might be determined by your research objectives. That is, you may have to use an infrared camera for your application, which will affect the choice of the drone model and subsequent analyses.

Currently, consumer drones have sophisticated integrated flight planning and data acquisition tools. It makes life much easier and does not require extensive experience to do fieldwork. Also, many of these drones come with a specific camera which means you have to browse and check specifications, then, make a choice based on your needs.

After you get your data, you will need to preprocess your imagery and create a mosaic and possibly also a DEM (if needed) for your study area. This particular step can be very pricey because of the limited software availability. Examples to use are Pix4D and Photo-Scan. The former offers you a free trial for 14 days.

As for data analysis, you might get accurate geo-referenced outputs depending on the drone model you use. So, this might be an additional factor in the choice. Otherwise, I believe the tricky part would be converting Digital Numbers for each pixel to reflectance for analysis. The rest (clustering, classification, filters, etc.) is pretty straight forward. I recommend for this to use QGIS (free) or ArcMap. You can also use more specialized software in image analysis rather than GIS (ENVI, ERDAS).

Hope this helps,

Atef

my dear

You can use satellite images and use a program ArcGIS

bast regard

Hi Mounir,

one quick thought is that you might check out the community of drone users at https://www.wildlabs.net/community/group/drones , as they may be able to answer some more specific questions that you have.

-Andrew