Evaluating Alternative Flight Plans in Thermal Drone Wildlife Surveys—Simulation Study by Julia Witczuk, Stanisław Pagacz

“…We tested two alternative flight plans (VLOS vs. BVLOS) in simulated surveys of low-, medium- and high-density populations of a hypothetical ungulate species with three levels of effort (one to three repetitions). …”
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Mathematical Model for Charter Flights Planning at Airports with High Air Traffic Volume by Vojtech Graf, Dusan Teichmann, Michal Dorda

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Feasibility of contrail avoidance in a commercial flight planning system: an operational analysis by A Martin Frias, M L Shapiro, Z Engberg, R Zopp, M Soler, M E J Stettler

“…Contrail impacts can be reduced through smart flight planning that avoids contrail-forming regions of the atmosphere. …”
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Integrated Disruption Management and Flight Planning to Trade Off Delays and Fuel Burn by Marla, Lavanya, Vaaben, Bo, Barnhart, Cynthia

“…In this context, we introduce another mechanism, namely flight planning that enables flight speed changes. Flight planning is the process of determining flight plan(s) specifying the route of a flight, its speed, and its associated fuel burn. …”
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Distributed air traffic flow management and flight plan generation for the ASEAN region by Wong, Minny Mun Yi

“…The simulation is configured based on the realistic air traffic network with the input of flight plans and optimal flight plans are generated from the algorithm model. …”
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Assessment of Unmanned Aerial System Flight Plans for Data Acquisition from Erosional Terrain by Valentina Nikolova, Veselina Gospodinova, Asparuh Kamburov

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Air Traffic Safety Assurance Based on Flight Plan Risk Assessment and Early Warning by Ruiwei Liu, Siqi Hao, Yaping Zhang, Guan Lian

“…This article presents a novel risk assessment method for aircraft flight plans in a four-dimensional trajectory-based operation background. …”
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Airspace Geofencing and Flight Planning for Low-Altitude, Urban, Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems by Joseph Kim, Ella Atkins

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A Hybrid-Driven Optimization Framework for Fixed-Wing UAV Maneuvering Flight Planning by Renshan Zhang, Su Cao, Kuang Zhao, Huangchao Yu, Yongyang Hu

“…Performing autonomous maneuvering flight planning and optimization remains a challenge for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), especially for fixed-wing UAVs due to its high maneuverability and model complexity. …”
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Simulation-based flight plan determination in real-time air traffic flow management by Loh, Jovi Si Jie

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FUEL PLANNING PROBLEMS FOR FLIGHTS, PLANNED VIA STANDARD ARRIVAL ROUTES (STAR) WITH DELAY LEGS by V. G. Lugovoi, A. V. Sorokin, O. V. Shilov

“…The article deals with the fuel planning problems for flights planned via standard arrival routes (STAR), with delay legs. …”
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Mission Planner: An Open-Source Alternative to Commercial Flight Planning Software for Unmanned Aerial Systems by Jesse Chintanadilok, Sahaj Patel, Yilin Zhuang, Aditya Singh

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Development and inflight validation of an automated flight planning system using multiple-sensor windfield estimation by Barrows, Andrew Kevin

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Multi-Objective and Multi-Phase 4D Trajectory Optimization for Climate Mitigation-Oriented Flight Planning by Alessio Vitali, Manuela Battipede, Angelo Lerro

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Peering through the thicket: Effects of UAV LiDAR scanner settings and flight planning on canopy volume discovery by Benjamin Brede, Harm M. Bartholomeus, Nicolas Barbier, François Pimont, Grégoire Vincent, Martin Herold

“…Four experiments on scanner properties and flight planning were conducted, analysed and recommendations derived. …”
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DEM-Based UAV Flight Planning for 3D Mapping of Geosites: The Case of Olympus Tectonic Window, Lesvos, Greece by Ermioni-Eirini Papadopoulou, Christos Vasilakos, Nikolaos Zouros, Nikolaos Soulakellis

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New Search Space Reduction Algorithm for Vertical Reference Trajectory Optimization by Alejandro MURRIETA-MENDOZA, Jocelyn GAGNÉ, Ruxandra Mihaela BOTEZ

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Scan Pattern Characterization of Velodyne VLP-16 Lidar Sensor for UAS Laser Scanning by H. Andrew Lassiter, Travis Whitley, Benjamin Wilkinson, Amr Abd-Elrahman

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Robust 4D climate-optimal flight planning in structured airspace using parallelized simulation on GPUs: ROOST V1.0 by A. Simorgh, M. Soler, D. González-Arribas, F. Linke, F. Linke, B. Lührs, M. M. Meuser, M. M. Meuser, S. Dietmüller, S. Matthes, H. Yamashita, F. Yin, F. Castino, V. Grewe, V. Grewe, S. Baumann

“…To account for discrete and continuous decision variables in an integrated and more efficient manner, the optimization is conducted on the space of probability distributions defined over flight plans instead of directly searching for the optimal profile. …”
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Scale-Variant Flight Planning for the Creation of 3D Geovisualization and Augmented Reality Maps of Geosites: The Case of Voulgaris Gorge, Lesvos, Greece by Ermioni-Eirini Papadopoulou, Apostolos Papakonstantinou, Nikolaos Zouros, Nikolaos Soulakellis

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