Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: They are commonly known as drones, are aircraft systems operated without a human pilot on board. They are either remotely controlled by an operator or fly autonomously through software-controlled flight plans.
Applications:
1.Agriculture-spraying and yield monitoring
2.Disaster Management-Floods, Fires, Search and Rescue
3.Delivery-Vaccines, Medicines, E-commerce trials
4.Land Mapping-SVAMITVA scheme
5.Defence-surveillance, border patrol, attack missions
Digital Sky Platform approves and monitors the drones. It has categorization such as Nano, Micro, Small, Medium,
Large drones.
Challenges:
1.Security threats
2.Privacy invasion
3.Airspace safety
4.Regulation Enforcement
