Special Issues

Keywords: drones for agriculture:; personal remote sensing (PRS); smart farming (crops; dairy; grazing; etc.); site-specific management (SSM) of water; pesticide; fertilizer; etc.; integrated pest management (IPM); phenotyping; yield prediction; environmental emissions (GHG; dust; etc.); water-saving agriculture and irrigation management; applications (crop dusting; seeding; etc.); soil moisture; soil health; soil variability; and carbon-negative practices; smart sensing and smart big data analytics; drones for forestry:; forest fire sensing and management; precision forestry and forestry management; forest mapping and biodiversity; mapping of canopy distribution and gaps; capturing forestry informatics (biomass; stockpile; fuel load; etc.); three-dimensional mapping for carbon storage; tree planting and reforesting with drones; applications (surface fertilizer; growth stimulant; pesticides; etc.); monitoring illegal logging and quarrying (forest security); combating deforestation and desert forestation dynamics; smart sensing and smart big data analytics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Agriculture and Forestry)

Keywords: edge computing; energy efficiency and real-time performance; hardware acceleration; robustness and privacy; resource management; algorithm hardware codesign

Keywords: quantum internet; quantum communication theory; quantum computing; quantum sensing; quantum codesign over drones; quantum communication protocols; quantum aerial networks; quantum experimental results; quantum prototypes; quantum demonstrations; quantum testbeds; quantum aerial vehicles; quantum theory; quantum aerial communication; quantum navigation; quantum system architectures; quantum drones; quantum repeaters; quantum routing; quantum aerial applications; quantum design principles; quantum-enhanced aerial networks; intelligent quantum methods for drones; quantum entanglement; quantum error techniques; quantum privacy; quantum security; advanced quantum transduction; quantum classification network; federated quantum learning; quantum network; quantum information; quantum computing; quantum technologies; federated quantum learning framework; quantum information-theoretic security; quantum machine learning models; quantum performance metrics; quantum learnable parameters; quantum state; quantum global parameters; quantum entangled state; quantum local training; quantum scheduling algorithm; quantum joint learning; quantum quantization noise; quantum circuit; quantum key distribution; quantum error correction; quantum memory; quantum operations; quantum gates; quantum cryptography; quantum channel; quantum resources; quantum client data; quantum transfer parameters; quantum decoherence; quantum machine learning integration; quantum machine learning algorithms

Keywords: crop protection; chemical application; remote sensing; intelligent agriculture; forest protection; precision agriculture; agriculture aerial application

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Agriculture and Forestry)

Keywords: unmanned aerial systems; urban air mobility; sense and avoid; artificial intelligence; sensor fusion; tracking

Keywords: UAVs; aerial corridor connectivity; internet of drone things (IoDT); O-RAN; UAV localization and sensing; UAV path planning

Keywords: pilot control; intelligent control; UAV formation control; trajectory optimization; mission planning; autonomous system

Keywords: UAV platforms; geospatial data; UAVs with LiDAR; feature extraction; change detection; 3D reconstruction; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Ecology)

Keywords: guidance; navigation; and control; sensor design and state estimation; nano technologies; urban air mobility and delivery; space– air– ground integrated network; drone design and development; artificial intelligence; manned-to-unmanned transition; swarming and collaborative tasks; onboard computing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

Keywords: precision urban agriculture; remote sensing; unmanned aerial vehicles; green areas; image processing; object detection; green infrastructure

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Ecology)

Keywords: efficient and resilient deployment of aerial drones; control of unmanned vehicles aided networks; UAV-aided mobile sensor networks; autonomous vehicles networks monitoring; energy-efficient UAV tracking of mobile targets; energy harvesting for networks composed of unmanned vehicles; traffic monitoring aided by unmanned vehicles; beyond 5G space– air– ground network control; coverage optimization and control in UAV surveillance; smart autonomous networks of vehicles; collision avoidance for unmanned vehicles; autonomous networks for deep space exploration; experimental platforms for UAV-aided mobile networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

Keywords: evidence based; FAIR data; point of care; healthcare drone ontologies; medicine drone delivery; healthcare logistics; UAV for human health; medicine quality; medicine stability; drug packaging; medicine compliance; patient samples

Keywords: artificial intelligence  ; autonomous systems  ; cybersecurity  ; hardware integration  ; signal processing  ; unmanned aerial vehicles  ; vehicle-to-vehicle communications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

Keywords: intelligent transportation systems (ITSs); unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); vehicle-to-everything (V2X); vehicular networks; mobile edge computing (MEC)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

Keywords: UAV detection; UAV classification; UAV tracking; optical sensors; IR sensors; RF sensors; radars; deep learning

Keywords: drone technology; optimal design; drone dynamics; drone navigation; machine learning; design optimization; dynamic modeling; navigation systems; autonomous drones; object detection; collision avoidance; tracking systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

Keywords: large language models; visual language models; unmanned aerial vehicles; autonomous navigation; few-shot learning; intelligent UAV systems

Keywords: habitat monitoring; LiDAR; population estimation; thermal; wildlife conservation; wildlife management; wildlife monitoring; wildlife species detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drones in Ecology)

Keywords: multi-UAVs; swarm intelligence; cooperative control; pigeon-inspired optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Communications)

Keywords: drone; UAV; cartography; path following; mission planning; machine learning; sensor fusion; data acquisition

(This special issue belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)

Keywords: drones; UAV; UAV swarm; computer vision; photogrammetry; remote sensing; LiDAR; aerial imagery; image and point cloud fusion; detection and tracking; segmentation; SLAM; path planning; 3D reconstruction; 3D visualization