Best Paper Award

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Drones 2022 Best Paper Award” for research and review articles published in Drones from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022. One review and one research article will receive an award each. The papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Diego González-Aguilera.

Eligibility for the Award:
– Papers published in Drones from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the following criteria:
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.

The Prize:
– One review award: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Drones in 2024 after peer review (the paper type must be article/review);
– One research article award: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Drones in 2024 after peer review (the paper type must be article/review);
– Each winner will also receive an electronic certificate.

The winners will be announced on the journal website in May 2024.

Kind regards,
Drones Editorial Office

 

Drones Best Paper Award

 

Winner announcement: 31 May 2024

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Drones will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).

 

Past Winners

 

Year: 

2022 2021

Winner

16 pages, 4096 KiB  

Open AccessEditor’s ChoiceArticle

Processing and Interpretation of UAV Magnetic Data: A Workflow Based on Improved Variational Mode Decomposition and Levenberg–Marquardt Algorithm

by Yaoxin Zheng, Shiyan Li, Kang Xing and Xiaojuan Zhang

Drones 2022, 6(1), 11; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/drones6010011 - 3 Jan 2022

36 pages, 2000 KiB  

Open AccessEditor’s ChoiceReview

A Review of Counter-UAS Technologies for Cooperative Defensive Teams of Drones

by Vittorio Ugo Castrillo, Angelo Manco, Domenico Pascarella and Gabriella Gigante

Drones 2022, 6(3), 65; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/drones6030065 - 1 Mar 2022

Award Committee

Dr. Diego Gonzalez-Aguilera Chairman

University of Salamanca

Dr. Xiwang Dong

Dr. Eben Broadbent

University of Florida

Prof. Dr. Petros S. Bithas

Digital Technologies Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Winner

30 pages, 1632 KiB  

Open AccessEditor’s ChoiceReview

UAV-Enabled Mobile Edge-Computing for IoT Based on AI: A Comprehensive Review

by Yassine Yazid, Imad Ez-Zazi, Antonio Guerrero-González, Ahmed El Oualkadi and Mounir Arioua

Drones 2021, 5(4), 148; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/drones5040148 - 13 Dec 2021

20 pages, 43356 KiB  

Open AccessEditor’s ChoiceArticle

A Citizen Science Unmanned Aerial System Data Acquisition Protocol and Deep Learning Techniques for the Automatic Detection and Mapping of Marine Litter Concentrations in the Coastal Zone

by Apostolos Papakonstantinou, Marios Batsaris, Spyros Spondylidis and Konstantinos Topouzelis

Drones 2021, 5(1), 6; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/drones5010006 - 18 Jan 2021

Award Committee

Dr. Diego Gonzalez-Aguilera Chairman

University of Salamanca