Unmanned Aircraft Traffic Management
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Traffic and Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (7 May 2020) | Viewed by 60176
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Unmanned aircraft (UA) are the new revolution of the airspace. Large UA can be found flying above Class A airspace, but also, with adequate separation measures, in IFR common flight levels (FL). Today, these aircraft need special permissions, segregated areas or long certification of safety processes, which limit their business model to scale. On the opposite side, many small and cheap UA are occupying the airspace bellow VFR. Being available at very low cost, even as toys, most of them fly without knowledge of the civil aviation authorities. They are used for leisure, but also for business related with infrastructure inspection, precision agriculture or search-and-rescue. Some recent events have shown that UA can be also a threat when close to airports. Legislation to regulate UA access to the airspace is being developed all across the world. More recently, a number of initiatives have begun to address new traffic management systems for UA. The final objective is to make the sharing of the airspace between manned and unmanned aircraft possible in a smooth and safe manner. The challenges are huge and involve a number of actors and technologies: the air space service providers, the communication frequencies and protocols, the satellite-based navigation, the cell-phone capabilities, the surveillance of aircraft flying at very low altitudes, the aircraft-to-aircraft direct communication, the automation and digitization of the air traffic management systems, the autonomous decision systems and, of course, the long list of current airspace users.
Prof. Dr. Cristina Barrado
Guest Editor
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