page_title: Unmanned aerial vehicle
hierarchical_section_title: Unmanned aerial vehicle
caption_attribution_description: English: DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ V3 of user Capricorn4049 hovering over Weissfluhjoch (Davos/Klosters-Serneus/Arosa, Grisons, Switzerland). In the background Weissfluh. Recordings with this UAS can be found here Deutsch: DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ V3 vom Benutzer Capricorn4049, schwebend über dem Weissfluhjoch (Davos/Klosters-Serneus/Arosa, Graubünden, Schweiz). Im Hintergrund die Weissfluh. Aufnahmen mit diesem UAV können hier gefunden werden. Rumantsch: DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ V3 digl utilisader Capricorn4049 sgulond sur igl Weissfluhjoch (Tavo/Klosters-Serneus/Arosa, Grischun, Svizra). Davos ve Weissfluh. Registraziuns cun chel UAV pon neir cattadas sot chella categoria. Italiano: DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ V3 dall'utente Capricorn4049 sorvolando Weissfluhjoch (Davos/Klosters-Serneus/Arosa, Grigioni, Svizzera). Sullo sfondo il Weissfluh. Registrazioni con questo APR possono essere trovate qui.
context_page_description: An unmanned aerial vehicle is an aircraft without a human pilot on board and a type of unmanned vehicle. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft system; which include a UAV, a ground-based controller, and a system of communications between the two. The flight of UAVs may operate with various degrees of autonomy: either under remote control by a human operator, autonomously by onboard computers or piloted by an autonomous robot.
  Compared to crewed aircraft, UAVs were originally used for missions too "dull, dirty or dangerous" for humans. While they originated mostly in military applications, their use is rapidly expanding to commercial, scientific, recreational, agricultural, and other applications, such as policing and surveillance, product deliveries, aerial photography, infrastructure inspections, smuggling, and drone racing. Civilian UAVs now vastly outnumber military UAVs, with estimates of over a million sold by 2015.
context_section_description: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) (or uncrewed aerial vehicle, commonly known as a drone) is an aircraft without a human pilot on board and a type of unmanned vehicle. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS); which include a UAV, a ground-based controller, and a system of communications between the two. The flight of UAVs may operate with various degrees of autonomy: either under remote control by a human operator, autonomously by onboard computers  or piloted by an autonomous robot.
  Compared to crewed aircraft, UAVs were originally used for missions too "dull, dirty or dangerous" for humans. While they originated mostly in military applications, their use is rapidly expanding to commercial, scientific, recreational, agricultural, and other applications, such as policing and surveillance, product deliveries, aerial photography, infrastructure inspections, smuggling, and drone racing. Civilian UAVs now vastly outnumber military UAVs, with estimates of over a million sold by 2015.
caption: A DJI Phantom quadcopter UAV for commercial and recreational aerial photography
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