Classifications, applications, and design challenges of drones: A review

M Hassanalian, A Abdelkefi - Progress in Aerospace sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Nowadays, there is a growing need for flying drones with diverse capabilities for both civilian
and military applications. There is also a significant interest in the development of novel …

Impending extinction crisis of the world's primates: Why primates matter

A Estrada, PA Garber, AB Rylands, C Roos… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Nonhuman primates, our closest biological relatives, play important roles in the livelihoods,
cultures, and religions of many societies and offer unique insights into human evolution …

Survey on coverage path planning with unmanned aerial vehicles

TM Cabreira, LB Brisolara, FJ Paulo R - Drones, 2019 - mdpi.com
Coverage path planning consists of finding the route which covers every point of a certain
area of interest. In recent times, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been employed in …

A drone fleet model for last-mile distribution in disaster relief operations

B Rabta, C Wankmüller, G Reiner - International journal of disaster risk …, 2018 - Elsevier
Humanitarian assistance operates under conditions characterized by the collapse of health
facilities, the disruption of health systems and the breakdown of already on-going treatments …

Dynamic urban surveillance video stream processing using fog computing

N Chen, Y Chen, Y You, H Ling, P Liang… - 2016 IEEE second …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent rapid development of urbanization and Internet of things (IoT) encourages more
and more research on Smart City in which computing devices are widely distributed and …

Reliability and maintenance analysis of unmanned aerial vehicles

E Petritoli, F Leccese, L Ciani - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
This paper focuses on the development of a new logistic approach based on reliability and
maintenance assessment, with the final aim of establishing a more efficient interval for the …

Issues in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) data collection of complex forest environments

BT Fraser, RG Congalton - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) offer users the ability to capture large amounts of imagery
at unprecedented spatial resolutions due to their flexible designs, low costs, automated …

Detection errors in wildlife abundance estimates from Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) surveys: Synthesis, solutions, and challenges

IV Brack, A Kindel, LFB Oliveira - Methods in Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are emerging as an accessible and versatile tool for
ecologists, promising to revolutionize the way abundance and distribution data are obtained …

Drone services: issues in drones for location-based services from human-drone interaction to information processing

M Alwateer, SW Loke, AM Zuchowicz - Journal of Location Based …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Recently, drones (or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)) are getting increasing attention and
taking mobile computing to a new era. Due to the support of highly advanced technologies …

The global emergence of community drones (2012–2017)

N Vargas-Ramírez, J Paneque-Gálvez - Drones, 2019 - mdpi.com
The use of drones with or by communities—what we call community drones—has emerged
globally over the last decade to serve diverse purposes. Despite a growing academic …