A unique partnership teaming academia, government and industry to further the beneficial use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) conducting collaborative research and development, leading to enhanced scientific and commercial use of UAVs for high resolution imaging in the FAA-controlled National Airspace System. The UAV Collaborative is currently involved in several research and development projects in support of its charter. Specific activities include: planning future UAV image acquisition campaigns developing procedures for operating UAVs in FAA-controlled National Airspace testing and evaluating high-resolution imaging systems integrating imaging payload onto UAVs evaluating data acquisition and control systems for real-time applications testing real-time telemetry systems for payload control and data transfer developing and packaging automated image processing streams transferring new aerospace technologies from research to the operational domain implementing educational research opportunities for university students   NASA ROSES Research Project in Progress Representative Missions Completed