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Detecting Drone Threats at Stadiums and Public Venues: Overview, Operational Considerations, and Technical Implementation

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This article overviews the issue of drone threats to stadiums and public venues. It provides emergency managers and those defending this critical infrastructure with an overview, operational considerations, and a discussion of the technical implementation for defending these sites from drone threats through detection. It provides a discussion of the current limitations of countermeasures and legal frameworks relevant to drones. Throughout, this article uses real drone detection data from the Astroworld concert incident (November 2021) as a notional case study to illustrate the type of drone detection data emergency managers will contend with and what can be gleaned from it. The article includes a discussion of future threats like swarming and conclusions.

Source: Journal of Strategic Security

DOI: 10.5038/1944-0472.18.3.2410

Authors: Nathan P Jones, John Sullivan, George Davis

Institution: Sam Houston State University

Language: English

Topic: Military Technology and Strategies

Subfield: Aerospace Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: U.S. Department of Homeland Security