Drones and Commerce (Inside the World of Drones)

While military and official government and scientific uses of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) , or drones, are well known and heavily covered, the implications of drone technology for commerce of all kinds is also being recognized and planned for. This book explores both the near-term and longer-term imagined uses for drones in e-commerce shipping, logistics, and delivery mechanisms, mining, agriculture, and a slew of other industries. Readers will surely find the big picture of the development of drones into integral parts of the economy, along with specific examples, to be endlessly fascinating.