Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Networking for Ocean Monitoring: Architectures and Key Technologies

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) communication networks have great potential in ocean monitoring domains. By virtue of the main features such as mobility, agility, easy deployment and adjustability, UAV communication networks will be widely applied in navigation, ocean ranch management and ocean environment protection. In this paper, we present a brief survey on UAV networking for ocean monitoring in terms of architectures and key technologies including UAV deployment and trajectory optimization.