Labbook IMAV

February 20, 2026

The Boson-nighttime dataset is good benchmark for Satellite and Thermal images. See Table 2 from this overview paper. The extended dataset (69 Gb + 121 Gb) is studied in this RAL paper (Oct 2024).

Looking for Drone books at Packt publishing.
- Drone Development from Concept to Flight (April 2024) - hardware oriented
- Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino (Feb 2018) - also hardware oriented - yet including a person following code
Other publishers:
- A First Course in Aerial Robots and DronesA First Course in Aerial Robots and Drones. (2022) Concentrates on Avionics.
- DRONE AI: “Building Intelligent Drone Systems with Machine Learning” (Apr. 2025) also covers ML and CV, but couldn't find it with the publisher.
- Intelligent Autonomous Drones with Cognitive Deep Learning: Build AI-Enabled Land Drones with the Raspberry Pi 4, which also covers Sense & Avoidance, and even SLAM & Navigation (ROS Noetic based). Textbook with github code (empty).

For a future drone project, I checked the work of Ivano Malavolta from the VU. He published in 2025 a paper on the resource usage of 2D SLAM algorithms, but based on ROS1 (and with Cartographer 2016 as most modern method).