Abstract
A correction has been made to Section 2. Materials and Methods, paragraph 4.
In 2023, a Purdue University DJI M300 was conducting an RGB (Red, Green, Blue) mapping mission near the Purdue water tower on the Northwest side of campus. Just after 5:00 PM Eastern, the DJI M300 UAS operator was alerted of an aircraft entering their mapping mission airspace and took action to increase separation until the threat had passed. The DJI M300 UAS team had appropriate LAANC approval and waivers in place to conduct their mission and had a VHF radio monitoring KLAF Tower communications. The DJI M300 UAS team observer was able to take the photo in Figure 1 noting the aircraft as a Piper Archer with Purdue University paint scheme, although the side number was difficult to make out due to image quality. This subsequent post-flight research analysis confirmed the aircraft to be a Purdue University Piper PA-28-181 Archer TX, callsign “PDU57”, as identified through an ADS-B receiver and provides a detailed narrative and timeline of events within the analysis to follow.
Date of this Version
5-8-2026
Comments
This is the publisher PDF of Case, R.P.; Hupy, J.P. Correction: Case, R.P.; Hupy, J.P. Methods for GIS-Driven Airspace Management: Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs), Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), and Crewed Aircraft in the NAS. Drones 2026, 10, 82. Drones 2026, 10, 359. Published CC-BY, the version of record and ADA Title II compliant version is available in HTML at DOI: 10.3390/drones10050359.
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