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Introduction to UAV systems / Paul Gerin Fahlstrom, Thomas James Gleason.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fahlstrom, Paul Gerin.
- Series:
- Aerospace series (Chichester, England)
- Aerospace series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drone aircraft.
- Cruise missiles.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (308 p.)
- Edition:
- 4th ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely adopted in the military world over the last decade and the success of these military applications is increasingly driving efforts to establish unmanned aircraft in non-military roles. Introduction to UAV Systems, 4th edition provides a comprehensive introduction to all of the elements of a complete Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). It addresses the air vehicle, mission planning and control, several types of mission payloads, data links and how they interact with mission performance, and launch and recovery concepts.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Introduction
- pt. 2. The air vehicle
- pt. 3. Mission planning and control
- pt. 4. Payloads
- pt. 5. Data links
- pt. 6. Launch and recovery.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-118-39681-2
- 1-283-54266-8
- 9786613855114
- 1-118-39678-2
- 1-118-39679-0
- 1-118-39680-4
- OCLC:
- 799765699
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