IEEE Access (Jan 2018)

Antenna and Propagation Considerations for Amateur UAV Monitoring

  • Nan Zhao,
  • Xiaodong Yang,
  • Aifeng Ren,
  • Zhiya Zhang,
  • Wei Zhao,
  • Fangming Hu,
  • Masood Ur Rehman,
  • Haider Abbas,
  • Mehran Abolhasan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2838062
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6
pp. 28001 – 28007

Abstract

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The broad application spectrum of unmanned aerial vehicles is making them one of the most promising technologies of Internet of Things era. Proactive prevention for public safety threats is one of the key areas with vast potential of surveillance and monitoring drones. Antennas play a vital role in such applications to establish reliable communication in these scenarios. This paper considers line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight threat scenarios with the perspective of antennas and electromagnetic wave propagation.

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