Review of Some Applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Technology in the Resource-Rich Country
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Abstract
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in various spheres of human activity is a promising direction for countries with very different types of economies. This statement refers to resource-rich economies as well. The peculiarities of such countries are associated with the dependence on resource prices since their economies present low diversification. Therefore, the employment of new technologies is one of the ways of increasing the sustainability of such economy development. In this context, the use of UAVs is a prospect direction, since they are relatively cheap, reliable, and their use does not require a high-tech background. The most common use of UAVs is associated with various types of monitoring tasks. In addition, UAVs can be used for organizing communication, search, cargo delivery, field processing, etc. Using additional elements of artificial intelligence (AI) together with UAVs helps to solve the problems in automatic or semi-automatic mode. Such UAV is named intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle technology (IUAVT), and its employment allows increasing the UAV-based technology efficiency. However, in order to adapt IUAVT in the sectors of economy, it is necessary to overcome a range of limitations. The research is devoted to the analysis of opportunities and obstacles to the adaptation of IUAVT in the economy. The possible economic effect is estimated for Kazakhstan as one of the resource-rich countries. The review consists of three main parts. The first part describes the IUAVT application areas and the tasks it can solve. The following areas of application are considered: precision agriculture, the hazardous geophysical processes monitoring, environmental pollution monitoring, exploration of minerals, wild animals monitoring, technical and engineering structures monitoring, and traffic monitoring. The economic potential is estimated by the areas of application of IUAVT in Kazakhstan. The second part contains the review of the technical, legal, and software-algorithmic limitations of IUAVT and modern approaches aimed at overcoming these limitations. The third part—discussion—comprises the consideration of the impact of these limitations and unsolved tasks of the IUAVT employment in the areas of activity under consideration, and assessment of the overall economic effect.
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OpenAlex topics: UAV Applications and Optimization · Environmental Sustainability and Technology
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Affiliations
Institute of Automation and Information Technology, Satbayev University (KazNRTU), Almaty 050013, Kazakhstan
Institute of Information and Computational Technologies, Almaty 050010, Kazakhstan
Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, University of Zilina, 010 26 Žilina, Slovakia
School of Engineering Management, Almaty Management University, Almaty 050060, Kazakhstan
Transport and Telecommunication Institute, LV 1019 Riga, Latvia
Faculty of Information Technologies, Kazakh-British Technical University, Almaty 050005, Kazakhstan
LLP Kazakh Research Institute of Agriculture and Plant Growing, Almaty 040909, Kazakhstan
Funding
Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan · Slovak Research and Development Agency
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