OPTIMIZATION OF THE INFORMATION COLLECTION MODE USING UAVS ON DISTRIBUTED GROUND NETWORKS OF MEASURING SENSORS

Emil M. Akhmedov
National Aerospace Agency, Baku, Azerbaijan

DOI: 10.36724/2664-066X-2025-11-3-7-12

SYNCHROINFO JOURNAL. Volume 11, Number 3 (2025). P. 7-12.

Abstract

This article is devoted to optimizing the data collection mode using UAVs from ground-based measurement network sensors. The problem of optimizing data collection from clustered ground-based sensors using a UAV swarm is formulated and solved. It is shown that the data collection rate can be maximized when there is a direct linear relationship between the bandwidth of the UAV data reception channel and the intensity of white Gaussian noise in the receiving channel.

Keywords measuring sensors, data collection, UAVs, data collection speed

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