SUDEM Foresight: Advanced Air Mobility Drone Operations Based on Future Advanced Communication Systems – as Crucial Elements of a System of Systems for Effective Disaster Management and Emergency Operations
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Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), having drones (aerial robots) as a core, is becoming an integral additional part of Disaster Management (DM) systems in metropolitan regions, and of future smart urban development and systems. Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) are able to transport efficiently high added value goods and to provide efficient monitoring during the disaster events and their development. This paper provides a foresight on the overall System of Systems (SoS) needed including the UAS application in the studied use cases, as well as the crucial integration of relevant advanced communication systems (ACS), for the safe and sustainable UAS operation. In the evolving AAM, ACS is a crucial enabler and core element of a functioning SoS -- for the purposes of UAS navigation and operations safety, DM data collection and processing. The emphasised SoS enables emergency goods deliveries and the complete and efficient deployment and operation of an entire DM system (meant for monitoring, search and rescue, and decision making support), where UASs are used as logistic tools, and simultaneously for the monitoring of the environment and the disaster events in the affected regions. AAM is being operated mainly in the third dimension (airspace), which enables us to be minimally dependent on any types of ground transport infrastructure. Due to this, its precise navigation and management as well as relevant data streams transfer are crucial for the operational efficiency and safety. This foresight study provides a comprehensive, SUDEM (EU), REGUAS (DE), 5G!Drones (EU), and ETHER (EU) projects' lessons learnt-based path for understanding and efficiently deploying the SUDEM SoS including AAM and ACS for the purpose of the described 2 combined use cases: (i) high-added value goods transport and (ii) live monitoring, and the necessary educational model.