Proceedings of the 128th Annual Meeting (2015)

UAVs, also called drones, are like certain other advanced technologies being used by agriculturists, in that many of them have been initially used by the military or have military ap- plications. Initially, military uses for UAVs focused on three missions: dull, dirty, and dangerous. Dull like ground flight, surveying, long flights (30 hours); dirty like collecting radia- tion samples after a nuclear blasts (the military used drones for this purpose as far back as 1948). Drones have also been used for dangerous missions, such as reconnaissance flying in hostile territory. – Reza Ehsani