Imaging and Sensing for Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Deployment and Applications: Volume 2

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Vania Estrela is a faculty/researcher at Telecommunications Department Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) and a visiting scholar at UNICAMP. Her research interests include biomedical engineering electronic instrumentation modelling/simulation sustainable design multimedia artificial intelligence remote sensing STEM education environment and digital inclusion. She has served as a reviewer for IEEE Elsevier ACM IET Springer-Verlag and MDPI. She has extensive experience as a project manager post-graduate advisor (M.Sc. and D.Sc.) as well as an editor of books and special issues. Jude Hemanth is an associate professor in the ECE Department of Karunya University (KU) India. He is a member of the IEEE task force on deep learning and serves as associate editor and editorial board member for several international refereed journals. Osamu Saotome is a professor at the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA) Brazil. He has been involved in several international research and cooperation projects with the Brazilian Air Force INPE IEAv (France Sweden USA and Japan). George Nikolakopoulos is a professor in robotics and automation at the Department of Computer Science Electrical and Space Engineering at Luleå University of Technology (LTU) Sweden. He is also a member of the ARTEMIS Scientific Council of the European Commission. He has significant experience in Managing European and National R&D&I projects funded by the EU ESA Swedish and the Greek National Ministry of Research. Roberto Sabatini is a professor of aerospace engineering and aviation in the School of Engineering at RMIT University (Australia) specialising in Avionics and Intelligent/Autonomous Systems for Aerospace and Defence applications. Currently he serves as Deputy Director (Aerospace) of the Sir Lawrence Wackett Centre and Chair of the Cyber-Physical Systems Group at RMIT University. Professor Sabatini is a Fellow and Executive Member of the Institution of Engineers Australia Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and Fellow the Royal Institute of Navigation. Throughout his career he led numerous industry and government-funded research projects and he has authored or co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed international publications. In addition to his primary faculty duties Professor Sabatini serves as Vice-Chair of the IEEE-AESS Avionics Systems Panel and editor for several high-impact international journals.