A UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)-approved operations manual for safe deployment of lightweight drones in research

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 8-10, 2017, Pages 2737-2744

  Cunliffe, Andrew M ^a,b   Anderson, Karen ^a   DeBell, Leon ^a   Duffy, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BINARY ALLOYS; CIVIL AVIATION;

ACADEMIC LITERATURE; ACCREDITATION PROCESS; BEST PRACTICES; CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITIES; PUBLIC CONCERN; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES;

DRONES;

AIRCRAFT; RESEARCH; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85012303912     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2017.1286059     Document Type: Article

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