Acknowledgements
This free course was written by Giacomo Carli, Kristen Reid and Despoina Filiou. This week was written by Giacomo Carli.
The development of this course was funded by the ICAERUS project [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .
The ICAERUS project was funded by the EU under the Horizon Europe scheme Grant Agreement 101060643 and UK under Innovate UK reference 10038181.
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Figure 6: of a spraying drone. Courtesy: Dr Katerina Kasimati
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