Identifying, tracking, and disrupting unmanned aerial vehicles

1. A man-portable countermeasure device, comprising:

at least one directional antenna;

at least one signal disruption component in electronic communication with the at least one directional antenna, the at least one signal disruption component comprising at least one signal generator and at least one amplifier coupled to the at least one signal generator;

a man-portable body;

activation circuitry communicatively coupled to the at least one signal disruption component, the activation circuitry being configured to:

cause, via the at least one signal disruption component, generation of a disruptive signal according to one of a plurality of waveforms; and

cause, via the at least one directional antenna, launching of the disruptive signal;

an electronic communications transceiver;

a memory configured to store the plurality of waveforms; and

at least one computing device coupled to the electronic communications transceiver, wherein the at least one computing device is contained within the man-portable body of the countermeasure device, and wherein the at least one computing device is configured to:

provide, via the electronic communications transceiver, at least one bilateral communication link to operatively connect with a UAV tracking system;

determine status information associated with electronic circuitry of the countermeasure device;

transmit, via the bilateral communication link, the status information to the UAV tracking system;

determine information describing a particular UAV in a particular airspace;

determine a particular waveform of the plurality of waveforms based on the information describing the particular UAV, wherein the particular waveform comprises a particular band of frequencies corresponding to the particular UAV and the particular band of frequencies is narrower than a band of frequencies of an existing waveform of the plurality of waveforms being generated; and

cause the disruptive signal generated via the at least one signal disruption component according to the particular waveform.

2. The countermeasure device of claim 1 , further comprising a non-volatile storage medium, wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to:

determine, via a communication on the at least one bilateral communication link, that an updated firmware version is available;

download, over the at least one bilateral communication link, the updated firmware version;

store the updated firmware version on the non-volatile storage medium; and

execute the updated firmware version from the non-volatile storage medium.

3. The countermeasure device of claim 1 , wherein the electronic communications transceiver comprises a cellular communication transceiver and the bilateral communication link comprises cellular communications.

4. The countermeasure device of claim 1 , wherein the status information corresponds to a health of the at least one signal disruption component.

5. The countermeasure device of claim 1 , wherein the status information corresponds to a health of the at least one amplifier.

6. The countermeasure device of claim 1 , wherein the status information corresponds to a health of the at least one signal generator.

7. The countermeasure device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to:

determine at least one error condition of the countermeasure device; and

transmit, via the bilateral communication link, the error condition to the UAV tracking system.

8. The countermeasure device of claim 7 , wherein the at least one error condition corresponds to one of the at least one signal generator and the at least one amplifier.

9. A system, comprising:

a countermeasure device, comprising:

a memory configured to store a plurality of waveforms;

at least one directional antenna;

at least one signal disruption component in electronic communication with the at least one directional antenna, the at least one signal disruption component comprising at least one signal generator and at least one amplifier coupled to the at least one signal generator;

a man-portable body;

electronic circuitry communicatively coupled to the at least one signal disruption component, the electronic circuitry being configured to:

cause, via the at least one signal disruption component, generation of a disruptive signal according to one of the plurality of waveforms stored in the memory; and

cause, via the at least one directional antenna, launching of the disruptive signal;

an electronic communications transceiver; and

a portable computing device coupled to the electronic communications transceiver, the portable computing device configured to:

provide, via the electronic communications transceiver, at least one bilateral communication link to operatively connect with a UAV tracking system; and

determine status information associated with electronic circuitry of the countermeasure device; and

transmit, via the bilateral communication link, the status information to the UAV tracking system;

at least one remote computing device of the UAV tracking system in communication with the portable computing device via the bilateral communication link, the at least one remote computing device configured to:

receive the status information from the portable computing device; and

receive a plurality of additional status information from a plurality of additional portable computing devices;

a video sensor proximate to a particular airspace and in communication with the at least one remote computing device, wherein the video sensor is configured to collect and transmit video data to the at least one remote computing device, the video data including at least one image of an object that may be a UAV flying within the particular airspace;

an audio sensor proximate to the particular airspace and in communication with the at least one remote computing device, wherein the audio sensor is configured to collect and transmit audio signal data to the at least one remote computing device; and

a radio frequency (RF) sensor proximate to the particular airspace and in communication with the at least one remote computing device, wherein the RF sensor is configured to collect RF signal data, wherein the at least one remote computing device is further configured to:

analyze the video data, the audio signal data, and the RF signal data to determine a confidence measure that the object in the at least one image comprises a particular UAV;

determine information describing the particular UAV;

determine a particular waveform of the plurality of waveforms based on the information describing the particular UAV, wherein the particular waveform comprises a particular band of frequencies corresponding to the particular UAV and the particular band of frequencies is narrower than a respective band of frequencies for at least one waveform of the plurality of waveforms; and

transmit information to the countermeasure device comprising the particular waveform, wherein the portable computing device is configured to, in response to receiving the information from the at least one remote computing device, cause the one of the plurality of waveforms generated as the disruptive signal to comprises the particular waveform.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein additional data is received as a data stream over the at least one bilateral communication link from the countermeasure device, and analyzing the video data, the audio signal data, and the RF signal data further comprises analyzing the additional data to determine the confidence measure that the object in the at least one image comprises a UAV.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein the countermeasure device further comprises a non-volatile storage medium, wherein the portable computing device is further configured to:

determine, via a communication on the at least one bilateral communication link, that an updated firmware version is available;

download, over the at least one bilateral communication link, the updated firmware version;

store the updated firmware version on the non-volatile storage medium; and

execute the updated firmware version from the non-volatile storage medium.

12. The system of claim 9 , wherein the electronic communications transceiver comprises a cellular communication transceiver and the bilateral communication link comprises a cellular communications.

13. The system of claim 9 , wherein the status information corresponds to a health of the at least one signal disruption component.

14. The system of claim 9 , wherein the status information corresponds to a health of the at least one amplifier.

15. The system of claim 9 , wherein the status information corresponds to a health of the at least one signal generator.

16. The system of claim 9 , wherein the portable computing device is further configured to:

determine at least one error condition of the countermeasure device; and

transmit, via the bilateral communication link, the error condition to the UAV tracking system.

17. The system of claim 16 , wherein the at least one error condition corresponds to one of the at least one signal generator and the at least one amplifier.