US US20260093270A1
A technique for managing an unplanned contingency landing of a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes determining by the UAV that the unplanned contingency landing is imminent, capturing aerial images of a ground area below the UAV with an onboard camera system as the UAV descends towards the ground area, semantically analyzing the aerial images to classify objects at the ground area into object classifications, depth analyzing the aerial images to determine above ground level (AGL) heights associated with each of the objects at the ground area, selecting a preferred landing site for the unplanned contingency landing that is coincident with one of the objects at the ground area based upon a contingency landing policy that ranks contingency landing sites based upon a combination of the object classifications and the AGL heights; and nudging the UAV towards the preferred landing site as the UAV descends towards the ground.
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