Business
Colorado Survey Company Teams with UAS Operator
“Merrick is thrilled to partner with Juniper Unmanned as they offer a wide range of exceptional professional services for the rapidly emerging UAS market. "
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Business
India to Develop Local Version of AeroVironment UAVs
India is to begin manufacturing an indigenous derivative of AeroVironment’s family of small unmanned air systems, that will be dubbed the “Cheel”. The Cheel will be co-developed by AeroVironment and Indian company Dynamatic Technologies in a production facility in Bangalore that was inaugurated on 17 February. “The governments
Accidents
Russian Drone Downed Over Ukraine
A Russian drone was shot down over the weekend during heavy fighting against separatist forces near the government-held port city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine, according to Ukrainian forces. The drone was quickly identified as a Russian-designed and manufactured drone designated E08 by its manufacturer, the Enics company,
Aerial Photography
3D Mapping of Christ the Redeemer
Pix4D, together with Aeryon Labs Inc. and PUC University of Rio de Janeiro, has reconstructed the first accurate 3D model of Brazil’s most important monument: the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. Using the Aeryon UAV platform for data acquisition and Pix4D’s image processing software for
Mapping & Surveying
UAV to Scan the Amazon Rainforest for Hidden Civilizations
The million European Research Council (ERC) project aims to study how the Amazonian land was used during the late pre-Columbian period (the last 3 thousand years leading up to Christopher Columbus’s voyages of 1492).
Military
Czech Military Technical Institute Unveils New UAV
The Czech Military Technical Institute (VTU) has developed a new unmanned aerial vehicle, Brus, which is designed for rescue and humanitarian purposes, has a day- and a night-vision camera and may also carry other devices, VTU representatives told a press conference on Monday. The VTU used the new drone
Military
U.S. Export Policy for Military Unmanned Aerial Systems
The U.S.State Department has approved its first policy for selling armed drones to allies. It has just published new guidelines that set out procedures for both commercial and military drone exports, which the department said it will assess on a “case-by-case basis,” including “armed systems.” It
Commercial
Reactions to FAA Proposals
Long-awaited federal rules proposed for commercial drones should pave the way for thousands of U.S. businesses to fly the devices in industries like filmmaking, farming and construction, but drone proponents worried that limits in the regulations would stifle other possible uses like package delivery. Drone makers and users
Events
Controp Micro-Stamp Multi-Sensor Payload for sUAS
Controp Precision Technologies Ltd. will be demonstrating its recently introduced cutting edge MICRO-STAMP Dual Sensor Day/Night Stabilized Miniature Payload for Small UAVs for the first time at Aero India 2015.With a low weight of a mere 300 grams – this new gyro-stabilized miniature payload in the world
Commercial
Custom Built Quadcopter for Bruce Willis Movie
Dronewerx is providing custom-built and ominous-looking drones for “Wake,” an action movie starring Bruce Willis and Ben Kingsley that began filming in the Greater Cleveland area Monday. Matt Mishak and Mike Hanna, the men behind the company, packed up two of their newly crafted drones and headed out
MQ-4C Triton UAS for Australia
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Business
Belarusia to Produce Electric Motors for UAVs
Belarusian scientists are planning to launch the manufacture of electric engines for compact unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in 2015, Yuri Yatsyna, head of the R&D center BAK and Technologies of the Physics Technology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, said at the press conference “Innovative