# Review of Some Applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Technology in the Resource-Rich Country
## 1 Introduction  
New technologies are a mandatory component of successful economic justification when using traditional and new sectors of economy, causing an increase in production and productivity. These technologies are connected not only with extraction, processing, and production, but also with data collection, processing, analysis, and application of new management methods. This study comprises the review of the possible use and benefits of utilizing the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for such a resource-rich country such as Kazakhstan. The state of Kazakhstan's national economy is heavily dependent on extracted minerals, like in other countries with similar economy. However, the explored reserves are depleting. Sustainable development of the economy requires the transition to new methods and technologies of management, involving other significant riches, which Kazakhstan has (agricultural products, animal husbandry, new deposits of minerals, human resources, etc.) in the economic turnover. In particular, in [1], it is noted that there is a global increase in demand for organic, environmentally friendly products, but, at the same time, there is a lag in the level of labor productivity in sectors of the economy of Kazakhstan. For example, in comparison to countries such as Australia and Canada, there is a delay of 12-15 times in agriculture, and 5-10 times in mining, and 2-4 times in manufacturing. The insufficient spread of modern technologies, high levels of deterioration, and the low technological level of fixed assets resulted in a decline in gross fixed capital formation from 30% of GDP in 2007 to 23.3% in 2016; this constrained the growth in productivity. The state program \"Digital Kazakhstan\" [2] helps to accelerate the economy's pace of development in the Republic of Kazakhstan, improve the quality of life of the population via the use of digital technologies in the medium term, and create conditions for the transition of the economy of Kazakhstan to a fundamentally new development path, ensuring the creation of the digital economy of the future in the long run. Nevertheless, the development and/or use of specific technical implementations (appropriate technologies, methods, and algorithms) is not a subject of such programs. Technical implementations should be studied and developed for the most effective solution of each applied problem, which requires processing the different types of data. Data processing is one of principal aspects of the technological development of the economy of each country [3,4]. There are many studies which show that hardware and software products in data processing can be used for different applications in economy. Computing resources cannot be considered as a critical obstacle to data processing tasks either. There is also an option of using resources of supercomputers or graphic processors in combination with machine learning methods applied in practice [5]. At the same time, successes in the field of agricultural production, animal husbandry, industry, and urban management are usually associated with the collection and practical application of large amounts of data, including spatially distributed resources and objects for the purpose of monitoring and process control. In many of these tasks, data collection is associated with the analysis of terrain [6, 7, 8]. These data can be collected using stationary systems, platforms with low mobility (for example, using cars), and several types of highly mobile platforms (spacecraft, aerial photography, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)). Among the listed technologies, UAVs have very serious advantages in obtaining data of a small and partly medium scale in terms of efficiency, cost, and resolution [9] (see Appendix A Table A1). The use of such data is relevant when engineers, agronomists, livestock keepers, and others specialists deal with spatially distributed natural or technical systems.