Fighting Earth's degradation and safeguarding the environment are subjects of topical
interest and sources of hot debate in today's society. According to the United Nations, there …

Drones have recently become one of the most important technological breakthroughs. They
have opened the horizon for a vast array of applications and paved the way for a diversity of …

This paper considers using a team of solar-powered UAVs to collaboratively eavesdrop on a
mobile ground target in an urban environment. A practical application is that the police …

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones presently are enhanced with miniature sensors
that can provide information relative to their environment. As such, they can detect changes …

Bathymetric mapping with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) receives increased
attentions in recent years. AUVs offer a lower operational cost and smaller carbon footprint …

In the growing economy, the transport sector emerges as the primary generator of the most
prevalent greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) due to the combustion of fossil fuels. The …

Over the last decade of the second millennium, precision agriculture has gained a lot of
attention in the agricultural industry. It began in the mid1980s as a way to improve fertilizer …

We consider a remote sensing system in which fixed sensors are placed in a region, and a
drone flies over the region to collect information from cluster heads. We assume that the …

The presence of wireless sensor networks and their appliance in monitoring the different
types of systems is growing in recent years. Considering the importance of a variety of …