UAV Imaging of a Martian Brine Analogue Environment in a Fluvio-Aeolian Setting

ng and execution. The use of UAVs for temporal monitoring of such salt flats can improve our knowledge about nutrient transport across the salt flat mixing zones, precise modeling of ecological vulnerability, and mineralogical estimations. Such high-resoluti

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