ICAERUS

About ICAERUS

Innovation and Capacity building
in Agricultural Environmental and Rural UAV Services

European strategic alignment

Drones as multi-purpose vehicles can make an important contribution to a number of the European Commission’s strategies that ensure food security, address climate and environmental challenges and reverse biodiversity loss including:

• Farm to fork
• Shaping Europe’s Digital Future
• EU biodiversity strategy
• European Green Deal

The ICAERUS platform

A one-stop web-based interactive platform to be used as the central node for information dissemination, communication and collaboration to increase the use of drones for sectoral and societal purposes.

Drone Market Landscape

An inventory of current drone market intelligence, including actors, needs and innovations, standards, regulations, and risks.

Drone Data Analytics Library

An open-access repository of the most significant existing and emerging drone data analytics models and algorithms according to the requirements of the end-users

Socio-economic and environmentalimpact assessment

An assessment of the factors influencing the decision-making process for adopting drone technologies, the economic benefits of the multi-purpose use of drones, and the environmental impacts associated with their uptake.

Inclusive business andgovernance models

Develop and make accessible, inclusive business and governance models that empower people to explore the opportunities of using drones and facilitate better informed decision-making processes, as well as helping to shape future policy design.

The ICAERUS vision

Explore drone based opportunities and provide a more complete and interconnected account of their potential and impacts as multi-purpose vehicles in EU agriculture, forestry and rural areas