Although the concept was born within military use, in recent years we have witnessed an impressive development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for civil and academic applications. Driving this growth is the myriad of possible scenarios where this technology can be deployed, such as: fire detection, search and rescue operations, surveillance, police operations, building and engineering inspections, aerial photography and video for post-disaster assessment, agricultural monitoring, remote detection (radiation, chemical, electromagnetic), weather services, UAV photogrammetry, airborne relay networks, and more [1]. Undoubtedly, the increased use of UAVs has been sustained through the research and development of multiple low-cost solutions for the control of aerial vehicles, the evolution in microelectronics with multiple off-the-shelf components and sensors, and also through a growing global developers community with several UAV related open source projects.


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    Title :

    Feature article: Cellular for the skies: Exploiting mobile network infrastructure for low altitude air-to-ground communications


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    Publication date :

    2016-08-01


    Size :

    2188169 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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