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Survey of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Traffic Monitoring

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The focus of this chapter is on surveying UAV-based systems for traffic monitoring and management. Although there has been voluminous research on the subject, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are proven to be a viable and less timeconsuming alternative to real-time traffic monitoring and management, providing the solution to the problem.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA

    Konstantinos Kanistras & Goncalo Martins

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA

    Matthew J. Rutherford

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Daniel Felix Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA

    Kimon P. Valavanis (John Evans Professor and Chair)

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA

    Kimon P. Valavanis

  2. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    George J. Vachtsevanos

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Kanistras, K., Martins, G., Rutherford, M.J., Valavanis, K.P. (2015). Survey of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Traffic Monitoring. In: Valavanis, K., Vachtsevanos, G. (eds) Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9707-1_122

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