Advances in Detection and Tracking Applications for Drones and UAM Systems

Dear Colleagues,

The technological improvement of Unmanned Aerial Systems supports innovative tasks for civil and military solutions. Detection and tracking tasks can be achieved by integrated on-board systems that exploit advanced processing based on reliable and high-performance sensors, such as radars, optical sensors and lidars, acoustic sensors, and RF analyzers. Traffic management and surveillance aims need accurate and efficient systems that must be properly integrated for new applications of Unmanned Traffic Management and Urban Air Mobility.

The proposed Special Issue aims to investigate innovative detection and tracking solutions that can be used for navigation, traffic management, traffic integration, detect-and-avoid, and surveillance purposes. Artificial Intelligence techniques can be used for proper data processing in simulated or real scenarios. Advances in on-board data processing for target detection and tracking aim to improve aerial vehicle performance or advanced payload tasks. Surveillance can be supported by properly designed ground systems and services also considering the Urban Air Mobility scenario under developement.

We are pleased to invite original contributions and reviews. Topics can be related (but not limited) to the detection and tracking of targets and incoming traffic for navigation, traffic management, traffic integration, detection and tracking of Unmanned Aerial Systems for surveillance, detect-and-avoid, Urban Air Moblity applications and services, innovative image processing and sensor fusion, advanced solutions based on electro-optical, radar and/or lidar.

Prof. Dr. Giancarlo Rufino
Dr. Claudia Conte
Guest Editors

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