{"product_id":"drones-in-whiteout-jonas-merakai-9789377940744","title":"Drones in Whiteout: Autonomous Systems Built for the Harshest Theatre on Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the Arctic, history has always been written by logistics: who can move, see, and endure when distance stretches supply lines and weather erases the horizon. Today, unmanned systems promise persistent presence across the High North, yet the same theatre that rewards reach also punishes dependence. When a drone is asked to fly through blowing snow, land in gusts, and report through intermittent links, its true capabilities are revealed not in demonstrations but in the slow arithmetic of failure, repair, and recovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrones in Whiteout argues that Arctic autonomy is primarily an engineering and sustainment challenge, not only a tactical one. It shows how cold-weather reliability is designed (or not) into materials, enclosures, and software behaviours; how sensor degradation turns perception into a probabilistic wager rather than a clear picture; how whiteout navigation exposes the brittleness of assumptions about maps, references, and GNSS integrity; and how communications loss forces hard choices about authority, transparency, and safe fallback modes. Across platform design, power management, testing, maintenance cycles, and operator rules, Jonas Merakai maps the tension between the promise of unmanned independence and the reality that autonomy still rests on fragile physical and organisational foundations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for students, general readers, and analysts who want a framework rather than a catalogue of gadgets, the book provides a disciplined way to evaluate autonomous systems by their control limits, recoverability, and operational sustainment. Readers will come away understanding why \"can it fly\" is the wrong question in the Arctic, and why the decisive measure is whether a system can keep being useful when the environment and an intelligent adversary attack the same few dependencies again and again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonas Merakai\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9377940745\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789377940744\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vij Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74d","brand":"Jonas Merakai","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50546484543743,"sku":"9789377940744","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/drones-in-whiteout-jonas-merakai-9789377940744","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}