1st International Conference
on Drones and Unmanned Systems (DAUS' 2025)

Topics of Interest include, but not limited to:​

• Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAV) and Systems
• Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV) and Systems
• Uncrewed Ground Vehicles (UGV) and Systems
• Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPASs)
• Convergence of Drones and Artificial Intelligence
• Human-computer Interaction for Unmanned Systems
• Networks and Communications for Unmanned Systems
• Sensors and Actuators for Drones
• Video Cameras and Vision Systems for Drones
• Lidars and Radars for Drones
• Drones Applications in Industry
• Drones in Automated Processes
• Agricultural Drones
• Military Drones
• Space Drones
• Micro- and Mini Drones
• Drones in Security and Surveillance
• Drones in Constructions Monitoring
• Regulation, Education and Training

Special Session:

Drone Applications for Wildlife Ecology

Wildlife biologists are relying on an ever-increasing suite of tools to answer questions and solve problems related to wildlife ecology, management, and conservation. The use of unoccupied aerial vehicles (UAVs), or more commonly known as drones, has exploded in popularity in ecological studies in general, and in wildlife biology in particular. Drones have many advantages over traditional research techniques. They eliminate safety risks associated with fixed-wing and helicopter surveys, reduce cost and disturbance, increase accuracy, and allow the collection of high-resolution data over large or otherwise inaccessible areas. Some of the major areas of application of drones that have emerged in wildlife ecology include, but are not limited to:

• Population surveys, including breeding colonies and non-breeding aggregations
• Nest monitoring
• Radio-tracking surveys
• Acoustic surveys
• Wildlife habitat research and monitoring
• The use of different drone sensors (e.g., visible/RGB, thermal IR, multi- and hyperspectral)
• Wildlife dispersal, either for nuisance or invasive species or to deter from hazards.

This special session provides highlights of the use of drones in wildlife ecology and a forum for discussion among both experts and potential users of drones that may result in future research collaborations between wildlife biologists in academic, government, and private sectors.

Session Co-Chairs:

Rick Spaulding,

Sr. Wildlife Biologist

ManTech Advanced Systems International Chair,

TWS Drone Working Group

E-mail: Rick.spaulding@mantech.com

Dr. David M. Bird,

Emeritus Professor of Wildlife Biology

McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

(currently residing in North Saanich, BC, Canada)

E-mail: david.bird@mcgill.ca

Special Session: ​

Geometry - Semantic Coherence for Drone Safe Planning
and Navigation

UAVs have become relevant for various applications such as topographic mapping, infrastructure maintenance, construction surveillance, inspection, or even parcel/medical delivery. One key challenge in most UAV-based applications is how to achieve safe UAV navigation. To reach the highest safety level, minimizing the risks to other airspace users as well as to both people and property on the ground is requested. UAV risk avoidance or minimization requests a clear presence of legal frameworks for UAV planning, geodata and semantic information. In this context, using only geodata does not deliver the sufficient information needed for a safe navigation, for e.g. sufficient description of places is not always possible. For this reason, there are also other ideas of using semantics to characterize objects and actions in UAV environment related to planning and navigation.

Session Chair:

Dr. Ing. Ahmed Alamouri,

Technical University Braunschweig,

Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry,

Braunschweig, Germany

E-mail: a.alamouri@tu-braunschweig.de

Special Session:

Innovative UAV System

As UAV systems become more important militarily and commercially, the innovation of UAVs also become important. This session covers the following topics of innovations and future-proofing in various areas of UAV design and its development.

• Propulsion system based on hydrogen fuel cell
• Parent-child UAV concept
• Innovative path planning
• VLEO UAVs

The research topics provided in this session are supported by Korean government

Session Chair:

Prof., Dr. Younghoon Choi,

Department of Smart Drone Engineering

Korea Aerospace University Geonggi-do, Korea

E-mail: younghoon.choi@kau.ac.kr

Special Session:

Drones and Post-processing Images
to Assess Earth´s Surface Processes and Landforms

This session will explore the cutting-edge applications of drones and image processing in assessing Earth's surface processes and landforms. We will delve into the acquisition of high-resolution imagery using drones equipped with advanced sensors, the development of advanced image processing techniques for extracting meaningful information, and the application of these technologies to various fields, including geomorphology, hydrology, agriculture, and archaeology among others. This session will bring together researchers, practitioners, and students to discuss the latest advancements, challenges, and future directions in this rapidly evolving field.

Topics will include:

• Sensor selection
  
• Flight planning
  
• Image processing algorithms
  
• Case studies from around the world.

Session Chair:

Prof., Dr. Jesús Rodrigo-Comino,

University of Granada, Spain

E-mail: jesusrc@ugr.es

Student Special Session: UAS

The purpose of this session is to advance undergraduate students' research in the field of UAS. Through this session, the students will present the results of their own UAS research. At the same time they improve their presentation skills, building up experience as the future researcher and improving their will. The researches provided in this session are supported by Korea government.

Session Chair:

Prof., Dr. Jae-Sung Bae,

Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering,

Korea Aerospace University Geonggi-do, Korea

E-mail: jsbae@kau.ac.kr