Survey migration system for vertical take-off and landing (vtol) unmanned aerial vehicles (uavs)

Abstract

A method of migrating unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations between geographic survey areas, including: uploading a first plurality of flight missions into a first UAV pod; deploying the UAV pod; autonomously launching the UAV from the UAV pod a plurality of times to perform the first plurality of flight missions; autonomously migrating the UAV from the first UAV pod to a second UAV pod; receiving a second plurality of flight missions in a second UAV pod; providing the UAV with one of the second plurality of flight missions from the second UAV pod; and autonomously launching the UAV from the second UAV pod a plurality of times to perform the second plurality of flight missions; where the autonomous migrating of the UAV to accomplish the first and second survey data happens autonomously and without active human intervention.

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