What is the biggest challenge facing the UAV industry? Go to gpsworld.com/17marpoll to give us your opinion by March 22 and you’ll also be entered in a drawing to receive a $50 gift card.
Here are the possibilities on offer, plus an “other” category for you to specify something bigger if you think we’ve omitted anything.
- Better quality images and video
- Better, smaller, more lightweight sensors (inertial, Lidar, infrared, spectral, etc.)
- Integration of other sensors with GPS/GNSS
- Applications and command-control on mobile devices: smartphones and tablets
- Virtual and augmented reality
- Competition from satellite and aircraft imagery/mapping/other
- Air traffic control and the FAA regulatory environment
- Other (please specify)
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Watch this space for continuing coverage of developments in UAV navigation and related issues, with in-depth reporting from the upcoming AUVSI Xponential conference in May.