Unmanned aerial vehicles applications in future smart cities

N Mohamed, J Al-Jaroodi, I Jawhar, A Idries… - … forecasting and social …, 2020 - Elsevier
Foreseeing changes in how smart cities manage their resources and provide services to the
residents; research, development and production in various relevant technology fields is …

Multipurpose UAV for search and rescue operations in mountain avalanche events

M Silvagni, A Tonoli, E Zenerino… - … , Natural Hazards and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a multipurpose UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) for mountain rescue
operations. The multi-rotors based flying platform and its embedded avionics are designed …

[HTML][HTML] Unmanned Aerial Aircraft Systems for transportation engineering: Current practice and future challenges

EN Barmpounakis, EI Vlahogianni, JC Golias - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Acquiring and processing video streams from static cameras has been proposed as one of
the most efficient tools for visualizing and gathering traffic information. With the latest …

A survey of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for traffic monitoring

K Kanistras, G Martins, MJ Rutherford… - … on unmanned aircraft …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The focus of this paper is on surveying UAV-based systems for traffic monitoring and
management. Although there has been voluminous research on the subject, unmanned …

Applications and requirements of unmanned aerial systems (UASs) for construction safety

M Gheisari, B Esmaeili - Safety science, 2019 - Elsevier
The unmanned aerial system (UAS), as an emerging technology that can be used as a
vehicle in a variety of settings, has the potential to strongly affect safety performance. UASs …

Exploratory study of potential applications of unmanned aerial systems for construction management tasks

J Irizarry, DB Costa - Journal of Management in Engineering, 2016 - ascelibrary.org
Despite studies exploring potential applications of unmanned aerial systems (UASs), the
particular use and value of visual assets (photographs or video) collected with UASs for …

Bridge inspection: Human performance, unmanned aerial systems and automation

S Dorafshan, M Maguire - Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring, 2018 - Springer
Unmanned aerial systems (UASs) have become of considerable private and commercial
interest for a variety of jobs and entertainment in the past 10 years. This paper is a literature …

[PDF][PDF] A systematic review of unmanned aerial vehicle application areas and technologies in the AEC domain.

G Albeaino, M Gheisari, BW Franz - Journal of information technology in …, 2019 - itcon.org
The recent increase in the integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in civilian usage
stems mainly from modern technological advancements and the devices' abilities to …

Detecting and tracking vehicles in traffic by unmanned aerial vehicles

L Wang, F Chen, H Yin - Automation in construction, 2016 - Elsevier
Using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) as devices for traffic data collection exhibits many
advantages in collecting traffic information. This paper introduces a new vehicle detecting …

Surrogate safety analysis of pedestrian‐vehicle conflict at intersections using unmanned aerial vehicle videos

P Chen, W Zeng, G Yu, Y Wang - Journal of advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Conflict analysis using surrogate safety measures (SSMs) has become an efficient approach
to investigate safety issues. The state‐of‐the‐art studies largely resort to video images taken …