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Introduction
Published in Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert, The Good Drone, 2016
Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
Although drone has gained increasing currency as the term for a range of unmanned aerial platforms performing a wide array of tasks, the word has a controversial history – reflected in the insistence, on the part of both the military and the drone industry, that other terms should be used, including UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), RPA (remotely piloted aircraft), and RPV (remotely piloted vehicle). Drones are used by military units for targeted killing and ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance). To comply with more robust mandates that allow for greater use of force, UN peacekeeping relies increasingly on the use of drones. Humanitarian actors use drones for demining, population management, and crisis mapping, and are also experimenting with drone use for relief drops and medical logistics.
Drones in agriculture: summary and future course
Published in K. R. Krishna, Agricultural Drones, 2018
A recent report from United Nations Environment Programs tries to emphasise that drones were first adopted in military by many nations. The word ‘drone’ is more related to military usage of small unmanned aerial vehicles. However, at present, drones are being used by many environmental monitoring agencies. Drones are utilized to detect changes in the atmospheric composition. The low-cost drones are preferred by environmental managers and meteorological agencies. As these drones measure aspects relevant to soil and atmospheric conservation, such drones have been nicknamed ‘Ecodorones or Conservation drones’ (UNEP-GEAS, 2013; Koh and Wich, 2012; NASA, 2013).
Introduction
Published in Ralph DeFrangesco, Stephanie DeFrangesco, The Big Book of Drones, 2023
Ralph DeFrangesco, Stephanie DeFrangesco
We now have a definition for a drone and have examples of drones. All of these have been in regard to consumer drones. Let's see how the military defines a drone. According to the military, a drone is a land, sea, or an air vehicle that is remotely piloted or automatically controlled. In this book, we will only touch on military drones that fly.
CLEA-256-based text and image encryption algorithm for security in IOD networks
Published in Cogent Engineering, 2023
Snehal Samanth, Prema K V, Mamatha Balachandra
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which are also known as drones, can be categorized into two based on their operating methods: automated and manual (by a pilot). For the two operating modes of flight, a communication link between Ground Control Station (GCS) and UAV is necessary. In the automated operating mode of flight, UAV is navigated through Global Positioning System (GPS) data. In manual flight operating mode, the drone is controlled by a pilot through virtual cockpit control, or Line of Sight (LoS) (Shoufan et al., 2018). Based on the drone-based applications, drones can be categorized into two: civilian drones and military drones (Wang et al., 2019). Civilian drones have got benefits in various applications like search and rescue operations (Saif, Dimyati, Noordin, Alsamhi, et al., 2021), agriculture (Moskvitch, 2015), environmental monitoring (Alsamhi et al., 2019), monitoring of areas affected by natural disasters, recovery operations (Saif, Dimyati, Noordin, Shah, et al., 2021), monitoring of traffic and construction sites (Alsamhi et al., 2021), etc. Military drones have got benefits in applications like tactical reconnaissance, surveillance, combat missions, etc. (Armour & Ross, 2017).
Security in Internet of Drones: A Comprehensive Review
Published in Cogent Engineering, 2022
Snehal Samanth, Prema K V, Mamatha Balachandra
Drones can be classified into two based on applications: civilian drones, and military drones (H. Wang etal., 2019). Civilian drones are used for applications like agriculture, search and rescue operations (Saif, Dimyati, Noordin, Alsamhi, etal., 2021)(Sahal etal., 2021), environmental monitoring (Almalki etal., 2021)(Alsamhi, Afghah, etal., 2021)(Alsamhi, Ma, Ansari, Almalki, etal., 2019), natural disaster monitoring (Saif, Dimyati, Noordin, Shah, Alsamhi, Abdullah, etal., 2021)(Alsamhi, Ma, Ansari, Gupta, etal., 2019)(Saif, Dimyati, Noordin, Shah, Alsamhi, Abdullah, etal., 2021), goods delivery, communication relays (Alsamhi, Almalki, etal., 2021), construction site monitoring, traffic monitoring, etc. Military drones are used for applications like border surveillance, intelligence reconnaissance, UAV combat missions, etc.