“…Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become indispensable tools for capturing high-resolution images of tidal flat environments, facilitating detailed 3D reconstructions crucial for the geosciences. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), renowned for their agility, versatility, speed, and cost-effectiveness, serve as invaluable platforms for aerial photography, enabling the swift capture of high-resolution images with vast potential for generating geographic mapping data [ 1 , 2 ]. Over recent decades, UAV photogrammetry has found applications across various disciplines within the geosciences, including sedimentology [ 3 , 4 ], earthquake geology [ 5 , 6 ], structural geology [ 7 ], geomorphology [ 8 ], engineering geology [ 9 , 10 ], archaeology [ 11 , 12 ], forestry [ 13 , 14 ], and landscape evolution and natural hazards [ 15 , 16 ].…”