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:
- 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)
- Advances in Deep Learning for Drones and Its Applications: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 25 August 2025)
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in UAV Technology (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)
- Autonomous Flight of Drone: Control, Trajectory Optimization and Mission Planning: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 19 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:
