1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 Fixed-wing UAVs [33].Figure 1.2 Single rotor drone [35].Figure 1.3 Types of multi-rotor drones [34].Figure 1.4 V-22 osprey military helicopter [36].Figure 1.5 RQ-11B Raven Small UAS (SUAS) [3, 37].Figure 1.6 RQ-4 Global Hawk—Heavy Strategic Military Drone [38].Figure 1.7 Representation of GUI configuration of ArduPilot open-source platform...Figure 1.8 Visual representation of a fixed-Wing platform taking photographs at ...Figure 1.9 VLoS deployment scenario for UAS [40].Figure 1.10 BLoS deployment scenario for UAS [40].

      2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1 Design issues of UAV-assisted communication networks.

      3 Chapter 3Figure 3.1 Challenges faced by UAVs-based networks.Figure 3.2 Solutions for battery & energy management in UAV-based networks.

      4 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 Single hop communication.Figure 4.2 Multi-hop communication.

      5 Chapter 5Figure 5.1 UAVs usage in various applications [12].Figure 5.2 Addressable market value of UAVs (in billions).

      6 Chapter 6Figure 6.1 UAV opportunities for IoT [11].Figure 6.2 Research Issues in UAV-enabled IoT [4].Figure 6.3 High-level UAV-based IoT architecture [23].Figure 6.4 Interoperability issues in UAV based IoT [10].

      7 Chapter 7Figure 7.1 Unmanned or crewless aerial vehicle system.Figure 7.2 Classification of UAV.Figure 7.3 Survey by drone.

      8 Chapter 8Figure 8.1 Some of the civil applications of UAV.Figure 8.2 Some of the applications of IoT.Figure 8.3 Layered architecture of IoT.Figure 8.4 Some of the applications of UAV-enabled IoT.Figure 8.5 Architecture: High level view of UAV-enabled IoT system with heteroge...Figure 8.6 Chain of blocks and block details in blockchain.Figure 8.7 Enlarged attack space of UAV and IoT integration.Figure 8.8 Security issues in UAV-enabled IoT.

      9 Chapter 9Figure 9.1 UAV-assisted IoT architecture [5].Figure 9.2 Energy harvesting mechanisms [2].Figure 9.3 Energy trading mechanism.Figure 9.4 Flowchart for CFS mechanism.

      10 Chapter 10Figure 10.1 Three expectations of IoE.Figure 10.2 IoE scalability enhancing communication technologies.

      11 Chapter 11Figure 11.1 Application domains of UAV-enabled IoT.Figure 11.2 Applications of UAV-enabled IoT for smart cities.Figure 11.3 Layered architecture for UAV-enabled IoT big data analytics.Figure 11.4 Applications of intelligent big data analytics for governance and ma...

      12 Chapter 12Figure 12.1 3-layer IoT architecture.Figure 12.2 5-layer IoT architecture.Figure 12.3 Block diagram of system of modules.Figure 12.4 Flowchart of system design.Figure 12.5 Lateral view of the 3D design of the amphibious model.Figure 12.6 Top view of the 3D design of the amphibious model.Figure 12.7 Design of processing module.Figure 12.8 Design of surround sense module.Figure 12.9 Final view of UAV with both processing and surround sense modules at...Figure 12.10 Data collected by surround sense module represented graphically.Figure 12.11 Graph of calculated AQI values by the surround sense module.

      13 Chapter 13Figure 13.1 Layout of BCI technology.Figure 13.2 Neurosky mindwave headset.Figure 13.3 Arduino MKR 1000.Figure 13.4 Laptop computer.Figure 13.5 Quadcopter drone.Figure 13.6 Processing P3 Software Window.Figure 13.7 Arduino IDE Software Window.Figure 13.8 Hardware connectivity diagram.Figure 13.9 Data transmission diagram.

      14 Chapter 14Figure 14.1 Rice monitoring with the help of satellite.Figure 14.2 MAPscape-Rice Rice processing of SAR raw data [36].Figure 14.3 Processed SAR data over Tamil Naidu, India in Cauvery Delta region f...Figure 14.4 Rice area for Mekong Delta, Viet Nam for Winter Spring season 2015–2...Figure 14.5 Yield map for Mekong Delta, Viet Nam for winter spring season 2015-2...Figure 14.6 Start of season map for Mekong Delta, Viet Nam for winter spring sea...Figure 14.7 An example of an NDVI map depicting crop health.Figure 14.8 SAP Leonardo—a digital modernization platform.Figure 14.9 Linked interface for agriculture [39].Figure 14.10 TCS Quad-rotor drone.Figure 14.11 Crop cutting experiment (CCE) sites.Figure 14.12 Android app being used for Crop Cutting Experiment data collection ...Figure 14.13 Information from Crop Cutting Experiments submitted to ISRO’s Bhuva...Figure 14.14 Data acquired with UAV.Figure 14.15 UAV-WSN system.

      1 Chapter 1Table 1.1 UA categories on the basis of spectrum perspective.Table 1.2 Frequency bands.

      2 Chapter 2Table 2.1 Parameters determining the performance of A2G channel.Table 2.2 State-of-the-art solutions for optimizing the UAV trajectory.

      3 Chapter 3Table 3.1 Example of UAV-based networking models.Table 3.2 Solutions projected by researchers for proficient battery and energy m...

      4 Chapter 4Table 4.1 Analysis of existing communication protocols.

      5 Chapter 6Table 6.1 Use cases of UAV-based IoT.Table 6.2 UAV-aided IoT applications.

      6 Chapter 12Table 12.1 Comparison of technologies for transmission of IoT data.Table 12.2 Data collected by surround sense module in tabular form.

      7 Chapter 13Table 13.1 Brain waves and its frequency ranges.

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