Calafate, Carlos Tavares <br/><br/>
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles : Platforms, Applications, Security and Services 

 - Basel, Switzerland  MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute  2020 
 - 1 electronic resource (174 p.) 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) plays an important role in supporting human activities. Man is concentrating more and more on intellectual work, and trying to automate practical activities as much as possible in order to increase their efficiency. In this regard, the use of drones is increasingly becoming a key aspect of this automation process, offering many advantages, including agility, efficiency and reduced risk, especially in dangerous missions. Hence, this Special Issue focuses on applications, platforms and services where UAVs can be used as facilitators for the task at hand, also keeping in mind that security should be addressed from its different perspectives, ranking from communications security to operational security, and furthermore considering privacy issues. 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>books978-3-03936-709-2 9783039367085 9783039367092 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.3390/books978-3-03936-709-2  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>History of engineering & technology
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>computer vision oil well working condition real-time detection sort unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) YOLOv3 UAV autonomous landing vision-based ArduSim ArUco marker blind signature security MEC UAVs FANET 5G IoT Mutual authentication Privacy Traceable BAN logic coverage model human mobility model UAVs/drones positioning energy model UAS horizon undistortion FPGA sense-and-avoid LoRaWAN Unmanned Aerial Vehicles topology control virtual spring forces firefighting communications n/a