surveillance drone
Unmanned watching craft
A surveillance drone is an unmanned aircraft equipped with cameras or sensors to monitor areas, people, or activities from above.
Military and law enforcement agencies use surveillance drones for reconnaissance, border patrol, and tracking suspects.
The term also covers commercial and hobbyist drones used for security or observation: Surveillance drones monitored the protest from overhead.
- UAVCrewless aircraft
- quadcopterFour-rotor aerial vehicle
- aerialElevated, or signal-catcher
- cameraImage capturing device
- hoveringSuspended without support
spy · live feed · military · reconnaissance · buzzing · propellers · watching · sky · remote · remote control · pilot · target · tracking · footage · airspace · stealth · patrol · border patrol
- vehiclescar, bus, truck, van, bike
- aircraftairplane, airliner, airplanes, plane, biplane
- policingpatrol, police powers, arrests, police officer, arrest
- dronesUAV, quadcopter, hexacopter, multirotor, octocopter
- flying vehiclesflying car, airship, shuttle, VTOL, tiltrotor
- Reconnaissancerecon, scouting, recce, observation, recon team
surveillance dronepassenger aircraft
Plane designed for travelers
signal jammer · rescue helicopter · medevac helicopter · stealth technology · crop duster
surveillance, drone, survey, surveyor, surveying, surveyed, surveys, surveil, surveilled