Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are finding their application in different aspects of civil engineering starting from geomatics engineering to transportation engineering, water resources engineering, and even structural engineering. Through the basic techniques of photogrammetry, remote sensing, and different types of sensors mounted on these vehicles, UAVs are proving to be a versatile and economical option for data acquisition. These are used for topographic mapping and cadastral mapping. Additionally, they are being employed in irrigation mapping and monitoring, structural health monitoring, traffic monitoring, infrastructure mapping, and monitoring, and construction site inspections. They are proving to be an important technological asset for civil engineering. With the advancements in sensor technology as well as the development in data processing techniques such as AI, computer vision, and pattern recognition, the research in the field of application of UAVs in civil engineering is advancing at a higher pace.

This Special Issue will provide a platform for bringing these advancements to a much larger scientific community. Original studies and review articles are invited in the fields of UAV system development; UAV surveys; discussion and analysis of UAV accuracy; and delivering solutions to support specific civil engineering applications (point clouds, surface models, vector products, orthoimages, etc.).

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• UAV photogrammetry and remote Sensing
• UAV mapping accuracy
• UAV in structural health monitoring
• UAV and cadastral mapping
• UAVs for air quality mapping and monitoring
• UAVs for water quality mapping and monitoring
• UAVs in water resource management and monitoring
• UAVs for monitoring traffic
• UAVs for infrastructure mapping and monitoring
• UAVs for monitoring of road pavements
• UAVs in construction
• UAV and BIM and indoor mapping