Overview of Agri-business and Forestry Market for small unmanned airships in Latin America (año 2012).

Abstract. Many concepts have been proposed in recent years among UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) Latin American researchers in the area of small unmanned airship for use in agri-business and forestry industry, but very few projects have reached production status yet. One reason is the inherent complexity of most UAS concepts, which in turn drives costs and development time. Other reason is the lack for legal framework to integrate these vehicles to national airspace. The paper authors have conducted small unmanned airship R&D programs in Mexico and Ecuador and reached a substantial experience facing these and other interesting facts and have also through its operation reached asubstantial knowledge of agri-business and forestry requirements along Latin-America. This paper offers a study of the Agri-business and forestry Latin-American market for small unmanned airships operations as well provides airship manufacturers with an overview of potential and promising applications in the region.

Muchos conceptos han sido propuestos en los últimos años entre los investigadores latinoamericanos de UAS (Sistemas Aéreos No Tripulados) en el área de pequeñas aeronaves no tripuladas para su uso en la agroindustria y la industria forestal, pero muy pocos proyectos han alcanzado el estado de producción todavía.