Systems And Methods For Adapting Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Video Stream Quality To Wireless Connection Quality With Ground Station

A system for operating an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the system comprising:

• one or more camera sensors for capturing a video stream;
• a communications interface;
• and
• at least one computing device disposed onboard the UAV and operably coupled to:
• the communications interface, and the one or more camera sensors, the at least one computing device configured to:
• direct the communications interface to transmit, via a communications link, data representative of the video stream to a ground station communicably coupled to the UAV;
• determine one or more performance characteristics of the communications link;
• and
• adjust a resolution of the video stream according to the one or more performance characteristics of the communications link.

One or more non-transitory computer readable media having stored thereon program instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, cause an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to:

• direct a communications interface of or associated with the UAV to transmit, via a communications link, a video stream captured by one or more camera sensors of the UAV to a ground station;
• determine one or more performance characteristics of the communications link;
• and
• adjust a resolution of the video stream according to the one or more performance characteristics of the communications link.