Related Experiment Video
Updated: Oct 7, 2025

Author Spotlight: UAV Remote Sensing for Efficient Invasive Plant Biomass Estimation
Published on: February 9, 2024
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Propagation Channel over Vegetation and Lake Areas: First- and Second-Order Statistical
Deyvid L Leite1, Pablo Javier Alsina1, Millena M de Medeiros Campos1
1Post-Graduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal 59078-970, RN, Brazil.
Abstract:
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to provide services such as the Internet, goods delivery, and air taxis has become a reality in recent years. The use of these aircraft requires a secure communication between the control station and the UAV, which demands the characterization of the communication channel. This paper aims to present a measurement setup using an unmanned aircraft to acquire data for the characterization of the radio frequency channel in a propagation environment with particular vegetation (Caatinga) and a lake. This paper presents the following contributions: identification of the communication channel model that best describes the characteristics of communication; characterization of the effects of large-scale fading, such as path loss and log-normal shadowing; characterization of small-scale fading (multipath and Doppler); and estimation of the aircraft speed from the identified Doppler frequency.
More Related Videos
09:36Continuous-Wave Propagation Channel-Sounding Measurement System - Testing, Verification, and Measurements
Published on: June 25, 2021
07:49Automated Deployment of an Internet Protocol Telephony Service on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Network Functions Virtualization
Published on: November 26, 2019
Related Concept Videos
Uniform Depth Channel Flow: Problem Solving
Uniform Depth Channel Flow
Rapidly Varying Flow
Light Acquisition
Boundary Layer Characteristics
Design Example: Design of an Irrigation Channel