To accommodate rapidly growing food demands and increase the quality and quantity of agricultural production, it is necessary to improve farming management practices and technological developments in agricultural fields. This project will synergize expertise in Control, Robotics, Remote Sensing, and Agricultural Engineering to develop new approaches for automated monitoring of smart agricultural systems as an important class of cyber-physical systems (CPSs). This award supports fundamental research to develop innovative techniques for smart agricultural systems by employing a distributed airborne networked sensor system for a team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to survey a farm. Unlike traditional crop management methods that use ground operators or vehicles for monitoring farms, the proposed approach for airborne monitoring of agricultural fields minimizes deployment of on-the-ground operations, avoiding damaging crops on healthy parts of the farms.