This letter considers the deployment problem for a network of aerial drones to maximize the coverage of an area for surveillance and monitoring. A distributed optimization model is proposed and a coverage maximizing algorithm is developed. It is proved that the proposed algorithm converges to a local maximum in a finite number of steps. Simulations with a real dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithm.
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