Beached and Floating Litter Surveys by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Operational Analogies and Differences by Umberto Andriolo, Odei Garcia-Garin, Morgana Vighi, Asunción Borrell, Gil Gonçalves

“…In this work, the operational insights to carry out both BL and FL surveys using UAVs are detailly described. In particular, flight planning and deployment, along with image products processing and analysis, are reported and compared. …”
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Indoor Mapping of Magnetic Fields Using UAV Equipped with Fluxgate Magnetometer by Pavol Lipovský, Katarína Draganová, Jozef Novotňák, Zoltán Szőke, Martin Fiľko

“…However, thanks to the integration of ultrasound-aided navigation used for indoor UAV flight planning and development in sensorics, the acquired magnetic field images can be further used, for example, to enhance indoor UAV navigation based on the physical quantities of the image or for the identification of risk areas in manufacturing or industrial halls, where workers can be exposed to high values of electromagnetic fields. …”
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Impact of NOTAM on security and efficiency performance of flights (overview) by A. V. Prokhorov

“…Also, the best practice of solving problems, related to NOTAM in the world, is presented with using: Q-code and flight planning systems (on the example of Lido Flight 4D). …”
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DRONE-BASED CROP TYPE IDENTIFICATION WITH CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS: AN EVALUATION OF THE PERFORMANCE OF RESNET ARCHITECTURES by O. G. Ajayi, O. O. Olufade

“…The imagery was captured at an altitude of 30 meters, maintaining an average airspeed of 5 m/s, and ensuring a front and side overlap of 75% and 65%, respectively. The pre-flight planning and image acquisition was facilitated through the Drone Deploy platform, yielding a dataset consisting of 1488 aerial photographs covering the study area. …”
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Demonstration of a Nowcasting Service for High Ice Water Content (HIWC) Conditions by Rodney Potts, Julie Haggerty, Allyson Rugg, Alain Protat

“…Conduct of the ALPHA trial and results from validation of the HIWC product provides confidence in the potential utility for flight planning, maintaining situational awareness, and flight monitoring.…”
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Simulating a Hybrid Acquisition System for UAV Platforms by Bashar Alsadik, Fabio Remondino, Francesco Nex

“…This entails extensive flight planning, acquisition duration, extra costs, and data handling. …”
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Towards the Development of a Low Cost Airborne Sensing System to Monitor Dust Particles after Blasting at Open-Pit Mine Sites by Miguel Alvarado, Felipe Gonzalez, Andrew Fletcher, Ashray Doshi

“…However, further work must be done in the areas of sensor selection and calibration as well as flight planning.…”
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An iterative algorithmic UAV path optimization process for Structure-for-Motion modelling by Lorenzo Ceccon, Matteo Cavaglià

“…With the advancement of technology and the availability of affordable drones with high-resolution cameras, capturing aerial images for creating detailed 3D models has become more accessible, however, UAV survey flight planning still presents challenges. The planning stage is essential in aerial photogrammetry as it sets the foundation for efficient and accurate surveying. …”
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A Semantic Preprocessing Framework for Breaking News Detection to Support Future Drone Journalism Services by Michail Niarchos, Marina Eirini Stamatiadou, Charalampos Dimoulas, Andreas Veglis, Andreas Symeonidis

“…The ultimate goal of this project is to implement a whole system that will utilize data retrieved from news media organizations, social media, and mobile journalists to provide alerts, geolocation inference, and flight planning.…”
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Dynamic Disruption Management in Airline Networks Under Airport Operating Uncertainty by Lee, Jane, Marla, Lavanya, Jacquillat, Alexandre

“…Specifically, our Stochastic Reactive and Proactive Disruption Management (SRPDM) model combines a stochastic queuing model of airport congestion, a flight planning tool from Boeing/Jeppesen and an integer programming model of airline disruption recovery. …”
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Impact of Chinese and European Airspace Constraints on Trajectory Optimization by Judith Rosenow, Gong Chen, Hartmut Fricke, Xiaoqian Sun, Yanjun Wang

“…Atmospheric conditions, network requirements, aircraft types and flight planning procedures are similar in China and Europe and only have a minor impact on flight efficiency during the cruise phase. …”
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Prediction of Fuel Tankering in Aviation Industry with Machine Learning Algorithms by İlker Güven Yılmaz, Elif Kartal, Zeki Özen, Sevinç Gülseçen

“…Also, an explanatory study in which artificial intelligence, which is used in various fields such as flight planning, diagnose aviation turbulence, is used in fuel tankering estimation/prediction, could not be found in the literature. …”
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Assessment of TAF, METAR, and SPECI Reports Based on ICAO ANNEX 3 Regulation by Josef Novotny, Karel Dejmal, Vladimir Repal, Martin Gera, David Sladek

“…The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is one of the most prominent and widely accepted forecasting tools for flight planning. The reliability of this instrument is crucial for its practical applicability, and its quality may further affect the overall air transport safety and economic efficiency. …”
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UASea: A Data Acquisition Toolbox for Improving Marine Habitat Mapping by Michaela Doukari, Marios Batsaris, Konstantinos Topouzelis

“…The UASea contributes to proper flight planning and efficient UAS surveys by providing valuable information for mapping, monitoring, and management of the marine environment, which can be used globally in research and marine applications.…”
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Learning to fly: integrating spatial ecology with unmanned aerial vehicle surveys by Peter W. J. Baxter, Grant Hamilton

“…We encapsulate our results in a decision tree to guide flight planning for given survey objectives, detectability, and ecological context. …”
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A Principal Components Analysis-Based Method for the Detection of Cannabis Plants Using Representation Data by Remote Sensing by Carmine Gambardella, Rosaria Parente, Alessandro Ciambrone, Marialaura Casbarra

“…The ground resolution of the georeferenced cartographic data varies according to the flight planning, inserted in the aerial platform of an Italian Guardia di Finanza’s aircraft, in relation to the orography of the sites under investigation. …”
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Development and Evaluation of a UAV-Photogrammetry System for Precise 3D Environmental Modeling by Mozhdeh Shahbazi, Gunho Sohn, Jérôme Théau, Patrick Menard

“…The software of the system includes the in-house programs specifically designed for camera calibration, platform calibration, system integration, on-board data acquisition, flight planning and on-the-job self-calibration. The detailed features of the system are discussed, and solutions are proposed in order to enhance the system and its photogrammetric outputs. …”
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Lie-Group Type Quadcopter Control Design by Dynamics Replacement and the Virtual Attractive-Repulsive Potentials Theory by Simone Fiori, Luca Bigelli, Federico Polenta

“…VARP theory, originally designed to enable path following by a small wheeled robot, will be tailored to control a quadcopter drone, hence allowing such device to learn flight planning. The proposed strategy combines an instance of VARP method to control a drone’s attitude (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>SO</mi><mo>(</mo><mn>3</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>-VARP) and an instance of VARP method to control a drone’s spatial location (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mrow><mi mathvariant="double-struck">R</mi></mrow><mn>3</mn></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula>-VARP). …”
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Ultralight UAV for steep-hill archaeological 3D survey by Michele Russo, Federico Panarotto, Giulia Flenghi, Valentina Russo, Alberto Pellegrinelli

“…The improved quality of the cameras and the recent introduction of flight planning has made them proper for photogrammetric applications. …”
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Multi-Agent Collaborative Optimization of UAV Trajectory and Latency-Aware DAG Task Offloading in UAV-Assisted MEC by Chunxiang Zheng, Kai Pan, Jiadong Dong, Lin Chen, Qinghu Guo, Shunfeng Wu, Hanyun Luo, Xiaolin Zhang

“…This algorithm harmonizes UAV flight planning, DAG task delegation, and scheduling hierarchies, thereby enabling UAV to efficiently undertake task offloading and processing concurrently along their designated optimal trajectories. …”
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