General
A section of Drones (ISSN 2504-446X).
Section Information
This section is open for all submissions within the scope of the journal and fields not covered by the specific journal section.
Editorial Board
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Advances in Autonomous Underwater Drones: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 28 May 2026)
- Distributed Control, Optimization, and Game of UAV Swarm Systems (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 12 June 2026)
- Path Planning, Trajectory Tracking and Guidance for UAVs: 3rd Edition (Deadline: 16 June 2026)
- Drone-Enabled Smart Sensing: Challenges and Opportunities (Deadline: 18 June 2026)
- Drones for Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Science: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 24 June 2026)
- Digital Twins and Extended Reality: Opportunities and Challenges of Integrated Applications (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 26 June 2026)
- When Deep Learning Meets Geometry for Air-to-Ground Perception on Drones: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 29 July 2026)
- Design and Development of UAV Systems for Logistics Networks and Operations (Deadline: 31 July 2026)
- Advances in Civil Applications of Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Third Edition (Deadline: 3 August 2026)
- Resilient Networking and Task Allocation for Drone Swarms: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 10 August 2026)
- Advances in Perception, Communications, and Control for Drones: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 16 August 2026)
- Flight Control and Collision Avoidance of UAVs: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 August 2026)
- UAV Path Planning Algorithms for Surveillance and Reconnaissance in Civil Applications (Deadline: 28 August 2026)
- Navigation, Control and Mission Planning Advances for Safe, Efficient and Autonomous Drones: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 30 August 2026)
- Advances and Innovations in Drone Technology for Mining and Construction Applications (Deadline: 31 August 2026)
- Control, Planning, and Embodied Intelligence of Agile UAVs in Indoor Environments (Deadline: 31 August 2026)
- Recent Advances in Healthcare Applications of Drones (Deadline: 24 September 2026)
- Detection, Identification and Tracking of UAVs and Drones: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 25 September 2026)
- Cross-Modal Autonomous Cooperation for Intelligent Unmanned Systems (Deadline: 27 September 2026)
- Unmanned Aerial Systems for Geophysical Mapping and Monitoring (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
- Next-Gen Drone Safety: Intelligent Systems, LLM Analytics and Operational Risk (Deadline: 20 October 2026)
- Advances in UAV Guidance, Navigation, and Control Through Acoustic Technologies (Deadline: 22 October 2026)
- Advances in Deep Learning for Drones and Its Applications: 3rd Edition (Deadline: 26 October 2026)
- Autonomy Challenges in Unmanned Aviation (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
- Artificial Intelligence-Driven Drones Systems for Marine Engineering Applications (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
- Advancing UAV-Based Remote Sensing: Innovations, Techniques and Applications (Deadline: 28 November 2026)
- Advanced Cross-Domain Unmanned Platform Command and Security Technology: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
- Collaborative UAV SLAM: Methods and Applications (Deadline: 15 December 2026)
- Skybound Surveillance: Enhancing Road Network Efficiency with Drone Inspections (Deadline: 30 January 2027)
Topical Collections
Following topical collections within this section are currently open for submissions:
