New America's report, Drones and Aerial Observation: New Technologies for Property Rights, Human Rights, and Global Development, is a primer that covers multiple aspects of the uses of drones - in conservation, mapping, and human rights - to its debates in policy, property rights, and privacy. The full report can be accessed on the World of Drones website.
The Drone Papers is the Intercept's investigative reporting series that examines the (c)overt deployment of drones in warfare that engenders what Derek Gregory calls the everyday war.