The application of UAV Remote Sensing in resource investigation and monitoring is mainly land, resource investigation and classification, environmental monitoring and so on.

In 2002, the Guangxi Institute of Meteorological Disaster Reduction Research Institute of horse wheel and other unmanned aerial vehicles carrying Canon EOS 300D digital camera carried out a land resource survey on Wuming County, Guangxi, and obtained the regional land use remote sensing map of the Wuming county. The average deviation of the location is 1 m, the maximum deviation is 2 m, and the length deformation in horizontal direction is less than 1%. There is basically no angular deformation.

The UAVRS - II low altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing monitoring system developed by the Chinese Academy of Surveying and mapping in 2003 selected a high resolution array CCD digital camera as the main remote sensing equipment, and realized the area coverage of large scale aerial photography, and was accepted by the Ministry of land and resources by the Ministry of land and resources. According to the distribution characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine resources, Xie Caixiang used unmanned aerial vehicle to carry out sampling survey, combined with space remote sensing to calculate the total amount of traditional Chinese medicine resources, greatly saving the cost, and making the result with statistical reliability.

The space information research center of National Taiwan University, National Taiwan University, uses unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to photograph low altitude and large scale images and combine the FORM OSA T2 classification for abnormal extraction to interpret the illegal waste deposits (solid waste, etc.) in Taoyuan County, which is used for environmental pollution and law enforcement investigation. In 2004, Zhu Zihao was used to carry out an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) digital camera with a large array of digital cameras to investigate the coastal environment, land, plant and pollution, and so on, in Taiwan's flong coast.


In April 2004, the flying height of the horse wheel base was 1200 m, and the UAV remote sensing monitoring was carried out in the waters near the eastern Hunan half of Wuhan City, "Yan Zhong Tsui" and "Mt. Mo Shan". The difference of water and water color of the three regions was obtained, and the water quality of the half part of East Hunan was analyzed.