MDPI Sensors Special Issue 2019 : Special Issue on UAVs and Remote Sensing for Infrastructure, Environment, Defense, and Security Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The last few years have seen an outstanding development of UAVs of a myriad of sizes, geometries, and configurations, with an exponential improvement in endurance and autonomy. Their performance and capabilities have allowed applications ranging from military operations (ISR, communications, attack, etc.) to parcel delivery, and included rescue assistance during volcano eruptions, cinematography, archeology, real estate valuation, and many more. Although the use of UAVs in remote sensing has already displayed spectacular achievements in various areas, notably in agriculture and forestry, the increasing availability of both sensors and UAVs combined to lower costs and ease of use opened the way to ubiquitous and virtually unlimited applications.

This Special Issue calls for papers reporting on disruptive, innovative, and original contributions to R&D related to UAVs and remote sensing in particular for infrastructure, environment, manufacturing, defense, and security applications.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Sensor development for UAVs for tailored remote sensing applications
Payload integration
Implementation of remote sensing schemes with UAVs
Tailored UAV design or architectures for remote sensing
Human–UAV collaboration
Swarms of UAVs

Dr. Paul-François Paradis
Guest Editor