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To provide an overview of the development of UAV RS applications during the past decade, we screened related publications from the Web of Science core database from 2010 to 2021, built co-author networks, a discipline interaction network, a keywords timeline view, a co-citation cluster, and detected burst citations using bibliometrics and social network analysis. Our results show that: (1) The number of UAV RS publications had an increasing trend, with explosive growth in the past five years. The number of papers published by China and the United States (US) is far ahead in this field; (2) The US has currently the greatest influence in this field through the largest number of international cooperations. Cooperation is mainly concentrated in countries and institutions with a large number of publications but is not widely distributed. (3) The application of UAV RS involves multiple interdisciplinary subjects, among which \u201cEnvironmental Science and Ecology\u201d ranks first; (4) Future research trends of UAV RS are expected to be related to artificial intelligence (e.g., artificial neural networks-based research). This paper provides a scientific basis and guidance for future developments of UAV RS applications, which can help the research community to better grasp the developments of this field.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13152912","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,25]],"date-time":"2021-07-25T22:07:00Z","timestamp":1627250820000},"page":"2912","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Social Network and Bibliometric Analysis of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Remote Sensing Applications from 2010 to 2021"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Jingrui","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Land Science and Techniques, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China"}]},{"given":"Shuqing","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Land Science and Techniques, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China"}]},{"given":"Dongxiao","family":"Zou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Land Science and Techniques, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China"}]},{"given":"Huimin","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Land Science and Techniques, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China"}]},{"given":"Run","family":"Zhong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Land Science and Techniques, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China"}]},{"given":"Hanliang","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Land Science and Techniques, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Land Science and Techniques, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4262-1772","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kai","family":"Yan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Land Science and Techniques, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"60","article-title":"Estimation of canopy attributes in beech forests using true colour digital images from a small fixed-wing UAV","volume":"47","author":"Chianucci","year":"2016","journal-title":"Int. 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