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    maneuverable video and photography at the touch of a button. If you have been paying attention, one of the latest crazes in advertisement is aerial videography. At first, you many wonder how they would get helicopters into such tight places to acquire the footage you are viewing. Well, it’s not a helicopter that is being utilized; it’s a Quad Copter Drone. These unique remote controlled devices are taking the world by storm, being utilized as everything from a hobby to an intricate aerial photography

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    Imagine yourself getting ready to rescue a climber stuck on top of a mountain. There you are in the helicopter reaching out to the distressed climber, but all of a sudden you fall down thousands and thousands of feet to your death. You just risked your life to save someone who was not ready. People putting their lives at stake for someone who was not ready is not acceptable. The cost to rescue someone is unbelievable. According to Nick Heil “ The B3 cost about $2 million apiece and quite expensive

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    that are taken from a high point or elevated location. It captures different subjects from a completely new perspective, thereby producing shots that are great and unique. Aerial photographs are taken from an aircraft such as drones, balloons, helicopters, parachutes, satellites, kites, etc. Why Use Aerial Photography? Aerial photography can be a challenging yet rewarding experience because it can give you spectacular and memorable aerial photos that are different from terrestrial photographs.

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    forces or to seize and hold key terrain” (JP 3-18). These air assaults would not be an air assault without the attack aviation element supporting them. Additionally, the use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems support air assaults by providing continuous helicopter landing zone “soaks” prior to infill as well as patterns of life observations. The attack aircraft that conduct quick reaction force operations stationed at remoted forward operating bases rely on the utility and cargo aircraft to supply ammo, fuel

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    (VTOL), simplicity in its mechanical configuration and ease of maintenance. In addition, the use of four small propellers in quadcopter reduces the danger posed by the propellers if it touches external object as compared with one big propeller in helicopter or airplane \citep{Nemati}. One of the quadcopter types that gains growing attention is the racing or high speed quadcopters due to their wide range of applications in surveillance, search, rescue, fire fighting, UAV based delivery, and other similar

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    both the introduction of amphibian aircraft and its transition into commercial aviation. Sikorsky also contributed heavily to the development of the helicopter and research of rotary flight design. His design concept that had one main lifting rotor in combination with a smaller rotor to counteract torque is still used in modern helicopters. The helicopters maneuverability and ability to lift off vertically allowed it to fly into and out of terrain not fit for normal aircraft. He designed the R-4 which

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    Ground forces throughout the military rely heavily on the aerial systems used by their aviation assets in order to accomplish their missions. Advances in technology have evolved the types of aircraft used in battle, and while the manned aviation asset is still the leading system used, unmanned systems are steadily moving forward. Manned aircraft systems have both advantages and disadvantages as well as unmanned aircraft systems. The military utilizes both of these systems to complement each other

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    Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

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    multicopter joined with a great control framework. A multicopter is a rotorcraft that has more than two rotors, in light of the fact that a rotorcraft with two rotors is called helicopter (bicopter). Multicopters have altered cutting edges with a pitch that are not conceivable to control, as it accomplishes for a helicopter (through the swashplate), to control the bearing of the rotor push. Rather, the rate of the rotors are shifted to accomplish movement control of a multicopter. For a tricopter

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    The basic principle of close range (terrestrial) photogrammetry will be explained in this section. “Photogrammetry is the art and science of deriving accurate metric and descriptive information from analog and digital images” (Habib et al., 2006; Habib Ghanma Al-Ruzouq Kim a; Ayman Paper A.F. Habib, K.I. Bang, M. Aldelgawy). Wolf, 1983 defined the photogrammetry as the art, science and technology of obtaining reliable information about physical objects and environment through the process of recording

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    maneuverable video and photography at the touch of a button. If you have been paying attention, one of the latest crazes in advertisement is aerial videography. At first, you many wonder how they would get helicopters into such a tight places to acquire the footage you are viewing. Well, it’s not a helicopter that is being utilized; it’s a Quad Copter Drone. These unique remote controlled devices are taking the world by storm, being utilized as everything from a hobby to an intricate aerial photography

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