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Authors
Sexton, Kristian J.
Danko, Elise F.
Boesch, Austin
Cheung, Nicholas
DiGiacomo, Alexandra E.
Holt, Robert W.
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Dorr Foundation
The Kay Fellowship
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Article History
Received: 6 February 2025
Accepted: 6 December 2025
First Online: 2 January 2026
Declarations
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: KJS declares the following competing interests: KJS has filed a patent entitled ‘Method to correct for reported drone altitude errors over duration of a flight based on determination of true altitude error from at least one point within the flight’ with the US Patent and Trademark Office, which covers the landing altitude correction method described in this paper. KJS has filed a patent entitled “System and Method for Correcting Drone Heading and Data Misalignment Using Path-Based and Correlation-Based Optimization” with the US Patent and Trademark Office, which covers the flight and image data alignment method described in this paper. KJS has also filed a provisional patent entitled ‘Method for correcting reported UAS heading errors using single or multiple offset corrections’ with the US Patent and Trademark Office, which covers the heading error correction methods described in this paper. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.
