# Networked Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Surveillance and Monitoring: A Survey
## Data Availability Statement: not applicable. Acknowledgments: Authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions on this paper. Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Abbreviations The following abbreviations are used in this manuscript: \begin{tabular}{l l} UAV-BSs & Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Base Stations \\ MWA & Maximal Weighted Area \\ QoS & Quality-of-Service \\ SCA & Successive Convex Approximation \\ E-SMLC & Evolved Serving Mobile Location Center \\ UE & User Equipment \\ TOA & Time-of-Arrival \\ UTDOA & Uplink Time Difference of Arrival \\ \end{tabular}  References  
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