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UAVs Support in a Sensors' island for Plants and Crops Monitoring

Abstract:

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has attracted prominent attention from researchers, engineers, and investors in multidisciplinary fields such as agriculture, signal coverage, emergency situations, disaster events, farmland and environment monitoring, 3D-mapping, and so forth. The paper focuses on the application of a two layer architecture where a WSN is used to collect data coming from sensors monitoring a crop and a drones' layer where UAV can gather data stored by WSN gateway to transmit them to a data center for processing and feature extractions. The architecture has been evaluated in terms of overall data gathering task and data storage requested at the WSN GTW considering WSN islands disseminated in a crop.