EMERGING THREAT; LOW SLOW AND SMALL UAVs HOW TO DEFEAT THEM AT RURAL AREAS

摘要

Mini and Micro UAV arena witnessed a great advancement during the last couple of years. This advancement, different than many of the technologies in the past, is not only supported by commercial companies but also by the public interest. The immense technology advancement in the UAV arena leads to vast number of different commercial products with pretty advanced capabilities as well as an open source community custom building these units. Unfortunately, these commercial products and the open source information are also accessible by the illegal parties, making mini and micro UAVs, especially drones as the number one offence instruments. These devices has many illegal uses in urban and rural environments. Since from the countering perspective rural and urban areas has very different constraints to be considered, in this paper we will focus on threats by these units in rural areas and how to counter them.