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Prof. Dr. Francisco Javier Mesas Carrascosa

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Department of Graphic Engineering and Geomatics, Higher Technical School of Agricultural Engineering, University of Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain
Interests: UAV; remote sensing; photogrammetry; cloud computing
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Prof. Dr. Rafael Morales

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Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Industrial de Ciudad Real, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
Interests: offshore sustainable renewable energy systems; maintenance maneuvers; robotics; control; automation and sensor integration applied to offshore sustainable renewable energy systems
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Prof. Dr. Miguel A. Moreno

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Vegetal Production and Agrarian Technology, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario s/n, 02071 Albacete, Spain
Interests: irrigation engineering; energy efficiency; agricultural water management; high-resolution remote sensing
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Dr. Alexandra Moutinho

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IDMEC, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: flight control; perception; sensor fusion; nonlinear control; modelling and identification; intelligent sensors; digital twins; uncrewed ground vehicles; uncrewed aerial vehicles
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Dr. Margarita Mulero-Pazmany

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Department of Animal Biology, University of Malaga, 29010 Malaga, Spain
Interests: drones; biological conservation; wildlife; ecology
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Prof. Dr. Nadia Nedjah

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Department of Electronics Engineering and Telecommunications, Faculty of Engineering, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 20550-013, Brazil
Interests: swarm robotics; swarm intelligence; computational intelligence; embedded systems
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Prof. Dr. Francesco Nex

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Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
Interests: geospatial AI; geomatics; deep learning; reinforcement learning; simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM); unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV); drones; signal/image processing; autonomous navigation; smart agriculture; patrolling; monitoring; change detection; education; sensor fusion
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Prof. Dr. George Nikolakopoulos

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Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, SE-97187 Luleå, Sweden
Interests: robotics and AI; control applications
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Prof. Dr. Konstantinos G. Nikolakopoulos

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GIS and Remote Sensing Lab, Department of Geology, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece
Interests: GIS; remote sensing; UAV; photogrammetry; hydrology; geological mapping; mining
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Prof. Dr. Rosdiadee Nordin

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Future Cities Research Institute, Sunway University, Bandar Sunway 47500, Selangor, Malaysia
Interests: aerial wireless communications; beyond 5G; channel modeling; internet of things wireless communications; low altitude platform; radio frequency propagation; rural wireless communications
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Dr. Federico Pallottino

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Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e L’analisi Dell’economia Agraria (CREA), Centro di Ricerca Ingegneria e Trasformazioni Agroalimentari, Via della Pascolare 16, 00015 Monterotondo, Italy
Interests: sensors application to the agro-food sector; brewing technologies; advanced traceability systems; optoelectronic systems; spectrophotometry

Dr. Filipe Pereira

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1. Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto (FEUP), Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
2. Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP), Polytechnic of Porto, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 4249-015 Porto, Portugal
3. Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (INEGI), Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
4. Research Center in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics (CeDRI), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, 5300-253 Bragança, Portugal
Interests: automation and industrial control; Industry 4.0; mechatronics; artificial intelligence; industrial, mobile and colaborative robots and industrial network protocols and advanced communication networks
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Dr. Emanuel Peres

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Department of Engineering, School of Sciences and Technology, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal
Interests: remote sensing; precision agriculture; in-field data processing; remote monitoring; UAV; UAS; precision forestry; sensors and data processing; human–computer interfaces; augmented reality; virtual reality; embedded systems
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Dr. Arianna Pesci

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Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Bologna, Viale Berti Pichat, 6/2 Creti 12, I-40127 Bologna, Italy
Interests: terrestrial laser scanner; remote sensing; structure from motion photogrammetry; crustal deformation; geodesy ground deformation; time series; volcanology
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Prof. Dr. Kaiyu Qin

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School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Interests: self-organizing mobile internet communication network technology; aircraft measurement and control communication technology; navigation; guidance and control technology; aircraft cluster intelligent perception and control technology; microwave and communication measurement technology and instruments; high-speed signal real-time processing technology; microwave module and component technology; new energy automation technology
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Prof. Dr. Pedro Quintero

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Instituto CMT-Motores Térmicos, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Interests: UAV; aeroelasticity; numerical simulations; fluid dynamics

Dr. Parvathy Rajendran

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College of Engineering, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), Al Ain P.O. Box 1555, United Arab Emirates
Interests: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); AI-enabled UAV systems; hybrid VTOL aircraft design; aircraft path planning; green & sustainable UAV research; autonomous flight; flight controller design; aerodynamics; CFD

Prof. Dr. Fabio Remondino

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3D Optical Metrology (3DOM) Unit, Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK), 38123 Trento, Italy
Interests: geomatics; mapping; heritage
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Prof. Dr. Mahmut Reyhanoglu

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Douglas D. Schumann School of Engineering, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Interests: unmanned aerial vehicles; aerial robots; autonomous systems; mechatronics; thermoacoustics; nonlinear systems; dynamics and control of space multibody systems; space robotics; mechanical and aerospace systems; geometric control theory; astrodynamics
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Prof. Dr. Fulvio Rinaudo

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Department of Architecture and Design, Polytechnic University of Turin, Viale Pier Andrea Mattioli 39, 10138 Torino, Italy
Interests: digital photogrammetry; HBIM; GIS; digital humanities; CH documentation
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Dr. Paul Royall

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Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King’s College London, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH, UK
Interests: delivery of medicines by drone; the maintenance of quality of medicines and medical products by drone; exploration of the relationship between solid state properties and the performance of pharmaceutical materials and medicines
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Dr. Inkyu Sa

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Chef Robotics, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
Interests: UAV; VLA; robot vision; state estimation; deep learning in agriculture (horticulture); reinforcement/imitation learning; agricultural robotics; visual inertial navigation; generative AI
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Prof. Dr. Nurul Sarkar

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Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Interests: UAV networks; IoT; sensor networks; network protocols; wireless communication netwok; 5G and beyond; edge and fog computing
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Prof. Dr. Xingling Shao

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Electrical and Control Engineering School, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China
Interests: navigation; guidance and control; multiagent coordiantion; intelligent decision-making; sensing and model-free control with applications on drones
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Dr. Nabin Sharma

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School of Computer Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia
Interests: artificial intelligence (AI); deep learning; human action/activity recognition; multi-modal video analysis; aerial image processing; object detection and recognition; crowd behavior analysis; UAV
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Prof. Dr. Efstratios Stylianidis

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School of Spatial Planning and Development, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: photogrammetry; geomatics; cultural heritage; documentation
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Dr. Giordano Teza

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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Viale Berti Pichat, 6/2 Creti 12, I-40127 Bologna, Italy
Interests: remote sensing (terrestrial laser scanning and structure-from-motion) and application to landslide monitoring; cultural heritage; preservation and medical imaging; 3D modeling; image processing; thermal imaging; GNSS and applications to crustal kinematics; deep learning and applications to time series analysis and medical imaging
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Dr. Jiwei Tian

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Air Traffic Control and Navigation College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi’an 710051, China
Interests: AI security; cyber physical system security; physical layer security
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Prof. Dr. Hiroyuki Tomiyama

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Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu 525-0058, Japan
Interests: embedded and cyber-physical systems; electronic design automation and optimization; autonomous drones; biochip synthesis
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Dr. Darren Turner

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TerraLuma Research Group, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, TAS 7005, Australia
Interests: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); UAV sensor integration; hyperspectral; multispectral; and thermal image processing; classification and machine learning; change detection; terrain analysis techniques; image processing; geometric accuracy
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