UAVs are used in a vast field of applications in environmental sciences due to their flexible, easy and low-cost data acquisition procedures when contrasted to other remote sensing devices. This book gives an overview of the usage of UAVs in environmental sciences covering technical basics, data acquisition with different sensors, data processing schemes and illustrating various examples of application. Overall, this book addresses the entire processing chain of using UAVs to answer environmental questions. Dieses Buch gibt einen Überblick über den Einsatz von UAVs in den Umweltwissenschaften. Es behandelt die technischen Grundlagen, die Datenerfassung mit verschiedenen Sensoren, Datenverarbeitungsschemata und illustriert verschiedene Anwendungsbeispiele.