Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
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Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
The advent of the Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle* (UAV) has enabled new and enhanced methods of data capture, significantly advancing research and innovation. Universities, research intensive organisations, governments and private industry across Australia use UAVs (or drones) to gather vital data on everything from agricultural crop health, to geophysical surveys, to infrastructure management. UAVs bridge the gap in scale between ground-based observations and satellite observations. They are commonly used to collect visible, thermal, multispectral and hyperspectral imagery, photogrammetry, LiDAR, and geophysical data.
*Otherwise known as: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Australian Scalable Drone Cloud
The Australian Scalable Drone Cloud (ASDC) enables Australian research to move towards a common platform to manage and access drone data, reuse processing pipelines, implement best practice information architecture with cloud-native and HPC solutions, and collaborate with the international community at a platform level instead of individual domain level. The ASDC also enables wider use of research using drone data by multiple research communities.
