Preparation and applying the aerial photography for the forest studying

The forest study - is one of the important applications of aerial photography, made of unmanned aerial vehicles. The article provides a brief literature review of world experience in the applying of unmanned aircraft to explore the forest. The technical features of unmanned aircraft used in Perm State University were done. The main stages of image processing were described. The brief results of processing aerial photography (on the example of protected area “Preduralye” were shown.