This book presents recent research in the recognition of vulnerabilities of national systems and assets which gained special attention for the Critical Infrastructures in the last two decades. The book concentrates on R&D activities in the relation of Critical Infrastructures focusing on enhancing the performance of services as well as the level of security. The objectives of the book are based on a project entitled "Critical Infrastructure Protection Researches" (TÁMOP-4.2.1.B-11/2/KMR-2011-0001) which concentrated on innovative UAV solutions, robotics, cybersecurity, surface engineering, and mechatornics and technologies providing safe operations of essential assets. This report is summarizing the methodologies and efforts taken to fulfill the goals defined. The project has been performed by the consortium of the Óbuda University and the National University of Public Service.

Presents the state of the art of critical infrastructure research and what problems can be solved in several areas Discusses the major difficulties and the cost-effective solutions to deal with them Offers a very convenient entry to critical infrastructure protection for researchers and engineers Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
The First Critical Infrastructure Protection Research Projectin Hungary.- Weather Forecasting System for the Unmanned Aircraft Systems(UAS) Missions with the Special Regard to Visibility Prediction,in Hungary.- Tribological Aspects for Reliable Operation of Engineering Surfaces.- Human Factor Analysis in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)Operations.- Simulation of Laser Alloying Process.- Hybrid Optimization Approach for Determination of Thermal Boundary Conditions.- Security Research in the Field of Climate Change.- Critical Transport Infrastructure Protection.- Evaluation of Differences in the Estimated recrystallizedVolume Using Different Methods Based on EBSD Data.- Aviation safety aspects of the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV).- Cloud Security Monitoring and Vulnerability Management.- The Effect of Comminution as a Pretreatment Method Used in the Process of Anaerobe Fermentation of Lignocellulose Substrate on Biogas Yield.- Experimental Investigation of Stress Distribution in a Tensile Test Specimen, Using a Novel Gripping System for Tensile Testing.- Thermal Image Processing Approaches for Security Monitoring Applications.- The Doctrinal Base of Operational Employment of Air Defence Missile Units in the Light of the Relevant National and Allied Publications.