Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Drones 2021 Best Paper Award. All papers published from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021 in Drones were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, two winners were selected.
One Review:
UAV-Enabled Mobile Edge-Computing for IoT Based on AI: A Comprehensive Review
By Yassine Yazid, Imad Ez-Zazi, Antonio Guerrero-González, Ahmed El Oualkadi and Mounir Arioua
Drones 2021, 5(4), 148; doi:10.3390/drones5040148
One Article:
A Citizen Science Unmanned Aerial System Data Acquisition Protocol and Deep Learning Techniques for the Automatic Detection and Mapping of Marine Litter Concentrations in the Coastal Zone
By Apostolos Papakonstantinou, Marios Batsaris, Spyros Spondylidis and Konstantinos Topouzelis
Drones 2021, 5(1), 6; doi:10.3390/drones5010006
Each winner will receive CHF 500, a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Drones in 2023 after peer review and an electronic certificate.
Please join us in congratulating the winners of Drones 2021 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Drones.
Kind regards,
Drones Editorial Office
Eligibility and Requirements
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are omnipresent and have grown in popularity due to their wide potential use in many civilian sectors. Equipped with sophisticated sensors and communication devices, drones can potentially fo...
This review paper provides insights into optimization strategies for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in a variety of surveillance tasks and scenarios. From basic path planning to complex mission execution, we comprehensively evaluate the multifaceted...
Diego Gonzalez-Aguilera
Eben Broadbent
Ziyang Zhen
Petros S. Bithas
