General
A section of Drones (ISSN 2504-446X).
Section Information
Editorial Board
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: On Selected Areas of Quantum Engineering, Internet, Privacy, and Security in Drones (Deadline: 20 June 2025)
- Innovative Applications of UAVs in Search and Rescue: Improving Safety and Effectiveness (Deadline: 20 August 2025)
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Applications in Critical Industrial Sectors (Deadline: 20 August 2025)
- Drones for Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Science (Deadline: 25 August 2025)
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in UAV Technology (Deadline: 25 August 2025)
- Advances in Deep Learning for Drones and Its Applications: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 25 August 2025)
- Intelligent Image Processing and Sensing for Drones, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 29 August 2025)
- The Conceptual Design Methodology for UAV: New Research and New Development (Deadline: 16 September 2025)
- UAV Agricultural Management: Recent Advances and Future Prospects (Deadline: 19 September 2025)
- Advances in Autonomy of Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) (Deadline: 20 September 2025)
- Advances in IoT and Wireless Networks of UAVs: State of the Art, Achievements and Perspectives (Deadline: 25 September 2025)
- Digital Twins and Extended Reality: Opportunities and Challenges of Integrated Applications (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 10 October 2025)
- Visual Language Models and Large Language Models for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Deadline: 16 October 2025)
- Implementation of UAV Systems for Cultural Heritage (Deadline: 20 October 2025)
- When Deep Learning Meets Geometry for Air-to-Ground Perception on Drones: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 23 October 2025)
- Recent Developments in Artificial Intelligence and Interdisciplinary Research for UAV Application (Deadline: 25 October 2025)
- Advances in Civil Applications of Unmanned Aircraft Systems: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 8 November 2025)
- Distributed Control, Optimization, and Game of UAV Swarm Systems (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 10 November 2025)
- Advancing UAV-Based Remote Sensing: Innovations, Techniques and Applications (Deadline: 15 November 2025)
- Advances in Autonomous Underwater Drones: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 25 November 2025)
- Advances in Guidance, Navigation, and Control (Deadline: 30 November 2025)
- Drone-Enabled Smart Sensing: Challenges and Opportunities (Deadline: 5 December 2025)
- Path Planning, Trajectory Tracking and Guidance for UAVs: 3rd Edition (Deadline: 15 December 2025)
- UAV Piloting, Training, Cooperation, and Interaction (Deadline: 16 December 2025)
- Flight Control and Collision Avoidance of UAVs: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 16 December 2025)
- Advances and Innovations in Drone Technology for Mining and Construction Applications (Deadline: 19 December 2025)
- Resilient Networking and Task Allocation for Drone Swarms: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 25 December 2025)
- Cross-Modal Autonomous Cooperation for Intelligent Unmanned Systems (Deadline: 30 December 2025)
- Control, Planning, and Embodied Intelligence of Agile UAVs in Indoor Environments (Deadline: 30 December 2025)
- UAV Detection, Classification, and Tracking (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
Topical Collections
Following topical collections within this section are currently open for submissions: