General Reading on UAVs
Applications for UAVs
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Applications for Highway Transportation (paper abstracts): https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/advancedresearch/pubs/14037/14037.pdf
Example usecases for drones: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/drones-toys-working-tools-dor-abuhasira
A comprehensive review on DJI Phantom 3: http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/26/dji-phantom-3-review/
Battle for indoor drones: http://dronebrief.com/theres-a-hidden-battle-for-indoor-drone-dominance-and-this-startup-is-at-the-forefront/
Making successful drone maps: https://blog.dronedeploy.com/making-successful-drone-maps-32d1ced37af1
How to make money out of drones: http://dronelife.com/2015/06/22/5-ways-to-make-money-with-your-drone/
Laser communications for Facebook's drones: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/10102274951725301/
Software for Drones
Drone Code Project: https://www.dronecode.org/news-faq/announcement/2015/06/open-source-dronecode-project-attracts-new-investment-and-members
Airware: http://www.airware.com/
Drone Deploy: https://www.dronedeploy.com/
Mavlink: http://www.mavlink.org/mavlink/start
Drone Kit from 3D Robotics: http://dronekit.io/
Where to Purchase Quadcopters and Parts
Sample indoor kit DIY: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CWmDrnLL-fQuCZTcCUqk0am-K25FfzeTaSqQ9tvpOPg&authuser=0
Sample outdoor kit DIY: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XLmisjYoZa8KIb6u31oiAwmdUDdZGoq_B4QQ_89dtDQ/edit#gid=0
How to Use Drones
DJI S1000 First Flight How to Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlAfq7uqxAY
FAA Regulations
FAA’s Notice of Proposed Rule Making for UAVs: https://www.faa.gov/uas/nprm/
Software Defined Radios
Youtube Talks on GNU Radio Projects:
RTL-SDR Projects
http://www.rtl-sdr.com/about-rtl-sdr/
Virgina Tech CORENET Competition on Spectrum Sharing: http://radiocontest.wireless.vt.edu/pfs/Spectrum-ShaRC_Official_Entry_Form.pdf
List and Comparison of SDR Equipment
Educational Modules for Teaching SDR Basics
HackRF and GNU Radio Lessons by Michael Ossmann: https://greatscottgadgets.com/sdr/
SDR Tutorials from Ettus Research: http://www.ettus.com/kb/detail/software-defined-radio-usrp-and-gnu-radio-tutorial-set
GNU Radio Guided Tutorials: https://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Guided_Tutorials
Ettus Research USRP Knowledge Base: http://www.ettus.com/kb
Public Safety Communications
Localization
Motorola Solutions, Urgent Communications (flying LTE base station with drones): http://urgentcomm.com/motorola-solutions/motorola-solutions-alan-conrad-demonstrates-prototype-handheld-lte-enodebepc-dron
Indoor navigation: https://www.google.com/atap/project-tango/about-project-tango/index.html
Cybersecurity
Spectrum Sharing
DARPA Talk on Spectrum Sharing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnWPW_EygH8
DARPA Talk on Trillions of Connected Devices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViJ3SH5t4Ys
DARPA Talk on SDRs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1t_66gafOQ
mmWave Communications
FCC boosts power limit for outdoor unlicensed 60 GHz links: http://stevencrowley.com/2013/08/11/fcc-boosts-power-limit-for-outdoor-60-ghz-links/
Detecting Small Drones
MITRE drone detection challenge (white papers due Feb. 7, 2016): http://www.mitre.org/research/mitre-challenge
UAV killers gain role against growing threat: http://aviationweek.com/defense/uav-killers-gain-role-against-growing-threat