UAS Sensors and Data Collection

 Intro ArcGIS Earth is a software that can be used to analyze, visualize, and evaluate data in a geospatial location. It can do many diffrent things from looking at the terrain in locations to comparing data collected from uas to satellites and many other sources of data.  Remote sensing can use ArcGis earth for many diffrent tasks, such as analyzing a flight location or comparing data. For looking at flight locations ArcGIS Earth has diffrent features to help determine if the pilot will be able to keep the UAV they are operating within line of sight, and other terrain-based information. When analyzing data the ability to compare the data collected with many available sets allows for cross-checking the information.  Methods Preflight Figure 1 shows the terrain data from a flight line in West Lafayette. This can be beneficial for seeing how the terrain in a specific flight path changes, as that could cause the aircraft to hit the terrain in a pre-programmed mission or wors...

 Introduction      Big Data, Cloud computing, Internet of things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are all the buzz words of this past decade, but what do they really mean and how will they impact uas usage. Uas is related to all of the different aspects of the information age, as the goal of many commercial uas missions is to collect information.       The digital transformation drives uas development through the creation of different uas and parts for uas. Big data drives the development of uas that are able to carry different sensor platforms to collect various types of data. Cloud computing is driving the development of diffrent technologies like unmanned traffic management (UTM). IoT is also allowing for uas to begin to communicate with each other to allow for UTM. AI is now driving the development of uas that are able to use visual navigation for beyond visual line of sight operations (BVLOS). The digital transformation is also driven ...