La 4ème de couverture indique : "Written for students and engineers who are new to the field of unmanned aerial vehicle design, this book teaches the many UAV design techniques being used today and demonstrates how to apply aeronautical science concepts to their design. Design o…
Drones and Support for the Use of Force utilizes experimental research to analyze the effects of combat drones on Americans' support for the use of force. The authors develop expectations drawn from social science theory and then assess these conjectures using a series of survey…
"5G networks; 5G wireless communication; aerial base station (ABS); agricultural sensors; artificial intelligence; autonomous navigation; autonomous underwater vehicle; cluster-based routing protocols; commination protocols; communication; communication system; cyber security; D…
Multi-rotor Platform Based UAV Systems provides an excellent opportunity for experiential learning, capability augmentation and confidence-building for senior level undergraduates, entry-level graduates, engineers working in government agencies, and industry involved in UAV R&D.…
This two volume book set explores how sensors and computer vision technologies are used for the navigation, control, stability, reliability, guidance, fault detection, self-maintenance, strategic re-planning and reconfiguration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Volume 1 concen…
Same-day delivery (SDD) changes the way people shop as it combines immediate product availability and the convenience of ordering from electronic devices. The SDD market has seen a fast growth over the past decade. These services have further gained popularity during the COVID-1…
The invention of powered flight altered both mobility across territorial borders and states’ ability to govern or enforce those borders. This thesis examines the incorporation of three types of aircraft—airplanes, helicopters, and drones—into the US apparatus of enforcement at i…
This thesis examines the political, moral, legal, and diplomatic controversy of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) fast-growing drone program in the Afghanistan-Pakistan (Af-Pak) border region. First, this thesis provides a general overview of the covert drone program inten…
New technologies accompany each war. The submarine dove during The Civil War, tanks rolled through World War I, the atom bomb was dropped in World War II and Agent Orange was diffused in Vietnam. Media often refer to today's conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan as "Obama's Dron…
From 2004 to the present the United States Government has employed drones for cross-border law enforcement purposes in the sovereign territory of Pakistan. Various opinions exist as to whether the US is justified in its intrusion into the territory of another sovereign state. Ma…
Canada is a nation governed by principles such as the rule of law and is built on democratic values such as those expressed in its Charter rights. In the last two decades, the need for enhanced national security to combat terrorism has been manifested where, the War on terror ha…
There has been heavy debate on the United States targeted killing program, but very little on the effectiveness of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), or drone, strikes as a counterterrorism tactic. The prevailing notion asserted by the United States government and much of the news m…
While the legacy of the Arab Spring is still not definitely determined, one thing that can be said with near certainty is that it has further destabilized the Middle East, including Yemen. Many U.S. administration officials have declared that the Yemeni-based terrorist organizat…
