Deployment areas and challenges

Group 1

What are the main civil applications?

• survaillance
• broadcasting
• inspection
• agricultural and habitat monitoring
• documentation
• incident sites for insurances

multi UAV?

• distributed view
• different views of a site
• weather measurements / weather forecast / local and global view
• different grid size measurements

Group 2

Group 2, Day 2

Group 3

What are the main non-military applications?

• inspection (e.g., photovoltaic systems, wind turbines)
• search/search and rescue operations
• mapping (e.g., 3D reconstruction of cities, construction sites)
• documentation (e.g., archeaological sites, construction work)
• monitoring (e.g., forest fire, wildlife)
• video and photography
• surveillance
• transportation of goods

• aspects
  • indoor/outdoor
  • single/multi UAVs
  • static/dynamic applications

Existing case studies, applications

• Skyeye environmental monitoring
• Sensefly animal observation, disaster management
• ddp energy Thermography inspection of solar modules
• Matternet Transportation using a network of UAVs