Use Cases of Drones in Various Industries

UAVs allow for the comprehensive automation of the industry and have emerged as promising new data collection instruments.

FREMONT, CA: Significant attention has been paid to the drone industry as a paradigm of manufacturing, service, and delivery convergence, with the coexistence of various emerging domains. Due to their advanced use in IoT, 5G, and B5G, UAV applications are expanding exponentially. UAVs have been utilized for various purposes, including object detection and tracking, public security, traffic surveillance, military operations, and exploration of hidden or hazardous areas. Civilian drone technology is used to acquire high-resolution imagery of remote regions, islands, mountaintops, and coastlines.

UAV technology connects airborne, spaceborne, and ground-based remote sensing information. UAVs' low cost and light weight allow for high-resolution observations with high temporal and spatial resolutions. Disease detection, water quality monitoring, drought monitoring, oil and gas, yield estimates, hydrological modeling, biodiversity conservation, geological disaster survey, terrain survey, forest mapping, and crop monitoring can all benefit from the remote sensing capabilities of UAVs. The technology can be used for crowdsourced mapping and the creation of 3D environmental maps, and it has become an integral component of archaeology and cartography.

Affordable drones can help provide the most up-to-date information without relying on outmoded mapping sources. UAVs have made as-built mapping, construction monitoring, and site inspection efficient, simple, and quick. Monitoring construction initiatives from beginning to end ensures quality site progress. Potential stakeholders can receive reports containing imagery, video, and 3D mapping. The technology can substantially assist inspection applications for infrastructure and construction. UAVs used for GSM tower inspection, gas pipeline monitoring, power line inspection, and construction project monitoring are gaining popularity rapidly.

UAVs can collect data from ground sensors, pesticide application, disease detection, irrigation scheduling, weed detection, and crop monitoring and management. Incorporating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into precision agriculture is a time-saving and cost-effective technology that can improve agricultural systems' profitability, productivity, and crop yields. UAVs assist with pest damage, weed monitoring, chemical spraying, and agriculture management, resulting in a higher crop yield to satisfy specified production requirements. UAVs and remote sensing can revolutionize precision agriculture. It offers temporal, spatial, and spectral resolution, multi-angular observation, and precise vegetation height data.

UAVs can significantly impact the agriculture industry. UAVs outfitted with the proper sensors and cameras can monitor crop health regarding leaf thickness, external contaminants, chlorophyll concentration, and temperature. The progress of remote sensing UAVs helps assess growth vigor, nutrient status, pathogen and vegetation detection, and drought stress. In the future, image processing techniques can be used to study plant maladies and other characteristics using high-resolution images captured by UAVs. Incorporating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into road traffic monitoring (RTM) systems has attracted considerable attention.