“…• Delivering medicine, food and water to the injured Schweizer et al, (2018) • Taking images of areas or infrastructures for damage assessment after disasters Yanchao Liu, (2019) • Food delivery Delivery of Goods Bhatt et al, (2018) • Medicine and blood samples delivery Sumanth Reddy et al, (2019) • Lightweight commercial products delivery Ghazali et al, (2021) • Network gateways Providing Wireless Coverage Wu et al, (2021) • Omnipresent coverage Tazibt et al, (2022) • Data collection S. K. Khan et al, (2021) • Relay nodes between wireless devices Fu et al, (2020) • Crop maturity and yield mapping Precision Agriculture Christiansen et al, (2017) • Field tile mapping Romero et al, (2018) • Irrigation scheduling Faiçal et al, (2017) • Pesticide spraying Kerkech et al, (2020) • Disease detection Stroppiana et al, (2018) • Weed detection Huuskonen & Oksanen, (2018) • Soil texture mapping Kavoosi et al, (2020) • Residue cover and tillage mapping Kas & Johnson, (2020) • Infrastructure internal inspection Infrastructure Inspection Gopalakrishnan et al, (2018) • Surface degradation assessment and crack detection Tan et al, (2021) • Vertical inspection for towers and high rise Jalil et al, (2019) • Power transmission lines inspection Gu et al, (2020) • Wind and oil/gas turbine inspection Nordin et al, (2022) • Onshore and offshore asset inspection Other than their operational purposes, the types of UAVs also differ according to their design features which affect their flying principles. In Figure 5, UAV types are classified first according to their vehicle mass, then the heavy types are further classified to rotor and wing types (Liew et al, 2017).…”