| UAV | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
| SAR | Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| ROI | Regions of Interest |
| MOP | Multiobjective Optimization Problem |
| SSAS | Sampling-based Sparse A* Search |
| EA | Evolutional Algorithm |
| PSO | Particle Swarm Optimization |
| SAS | Sparse A* Search |
| DEM | Digital Elevation Map |
| PLR | Path Length Ratio |
| RKill | Risk of Kill |
| RRD | Risk of Radar Detection |
| MBR | Minimum Bounding Rectangle |
| TSP | Traveling Salesman Problem |
| WSM | Weighted Sum Model |
| RL | Route Length |
| CL | Collection Length |
| DC | Duty Cycle |
| GA | Genetic Algorithm |
| DE | Differential Evolution |
| SR | Success Rate |