Recent advances in unmanned aerial vehicles and camera technology have proven useful
for the detection of smoke that emerges above the trees during a forest fire. Automatic …

Disasters involving gas leakage can cause serious damage to properties, to the
environment and even endanger human lives. In these situations it is very important to …

In this paper, we design and implement a fire detection algorithm using an unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV). In particular, we consider a scenario where a UAV is employed to find a fire …

Utilizing autonomous drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has shown great
advantages over preceding methods in support of urgent scenarios such as search and …

Home automation is a good step forward in technological advancement. It allows us to
control lighting, security, temperature, alarms, and appliances. Home automation started …

This thesis considers the effective long range operation of fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial
Systems (UAS) for volcanic monitoring, focusing on the automation of plume sensing, route …

This paper is focused on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for the monitoring of air
pollution by stationary sources. A quadrocope with digital image capture was used for …

This report will provide an overview and analysis of the four advanced topics relating to
advanced unmanned aircraft systems (UAV). The first topic is remote sensing and target …