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Farid Saemi and Moble Benedict
Minimizing electric losses is critical to the success of battery-powered small unmanned aerial systems (SUASs) that weigh less than 25 kgf (55 lb). Losses increase energy and battery weight requirements which hinder the vehicle?s range and endurance. How...
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Aleksandra Pachuta, Boguslawa Berner, Jerzy Chojnacki, Gerhard Moitzi, Jirí Dvorák, Anna Keutgen, Jan Najser, Jan Kielar, Tomá? Najser and Marcel Mikeska
The study aimed to assess the quality of spraying of ornamental conifer using a multi-rotor drone. We examined how the speed of drone movement and the propellers? spin speed can affect the deposition quality of the sprayed liquid in the crown of blue spr...
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Chun-Gu Lee, Seung-Hwa Yu and Joong-Yong Rhee
The use of unmanned aerial spray systems (UASS) has increased owing to their many advantages. However, studies related to a standardized method to evaluate the spray performance of UASS are lacking. Therefore, in the present study, a quantitative analyti...
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Szabolcs Kocsis Szürke, Norbert Perness, Péter Földesi, Dmytro Kurhan, Mykola Sysyn and Szabolcs Fischer
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, also known as UAVs, play an increasingly important part in daily life. However, the ever-increasing number of UAVs pose an ever-increasing threat to the transportation infrastructure. Despite their precision and general efficien...
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Seyed Mohammad Hashemi, Ruxandra Mihaela Botez and Georges Ghazi
This paper introduces an innovative consensus algorithm for managing Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic (UTM) through blockchain technology, a highly secure consensus protocol, to allocate airspace. A smart contract was developed on the Ethereum blockchain...
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Romeu Gerardo and Isabel P. de Lima
Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) provide an efficient and relatively affordable remote sensing technology for assessing vegetation attributes and status across agricultural areas through wide-area imagery collected with cameras installed on board...
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Jianyong Zhang, Yanling Zhao, Zhenqi Hu and Wu Xiao
Rapid estimation of above-ground biomass (AGB) with high accuracy is essential for monitoring crop growth status and predicting crop yield. Recently, remote sensing techniques using unmanned aerial systems (UASs) have exhibited great potential in obtaini...
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Carolyn J. Swinney and John C. Woods
Small unmanned aerial systems (UASs) present many potential solutions and enhancements to industry today but equally pose a significant security challenge. We only need to look at the levels of disruption caused by UASs at airports in recent years. The a...
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Israel Quintanilla García, Norberto Vera Vélez, Pablo Alcaraz Martínez, Jordi Vidal Ull and Beatriz Fernández Gallo
On the one hand, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) have experienced great applicability surge in the recent years, arising as a promising technology with a wide field of use. On the other hand, healthcare, a critical system in modern society, is subject t...
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Adrien Michez, Stéphane Broset and Philippe Lejeune
In the context of global biodiversity loss, wildlife population monitoring is a major challenge. Some innovative techniques such as the use of drones?also called unmanned aerial vehicle/system (UAV/UAS)?offer promising opportunities. The potential of UAS...
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