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Hundreds of thousands of unmanned aircraft are expected to be sold between Black Friday and the end of the year, providing a boon for the nascent industry — and a headache for aviation safety officials. “There’s a sense of excitement about this innovative new technology and what it can do,
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Future Aerial Innovations has announced the launch of its Drone Operations Network. The operations model coupled with Future Drone Cloud, its cloud based technology, enables any commercial business in any sector to commission multiple fleets of drones at any one time. With the introduction of Future Aerial’s DON, businesses
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The operator of a drone that forced a California Highway Patrol helicopter pilot to take evasive action Saturday night could face federal prosecution, according to law enforcement officials. A CHP helicopter searching for a stolen vehicle was flying above eastbound Highway 4 in Martinez at about 9 p.m. when
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When a tiny hobbyist drone revealed the damage inside Christchurch Cathedral in New Zealand, just after the 2011 earthquake, very few had an inkling of the enormous potential these flying objects had to emerge as a major commercial infrastructure inspection tool. That potential is being tapped by a fledgling West
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Japanese security company Secom, starting in December, will offer a surveillance service using drones designed to detect and track suspicious vehicles and people. The drones can also take pictures of license plates and intruders' faces as they enter factory grounds or shops at night. The launch of the service
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The UK Environment Agency has just issued a report entitled 'Measuring landfill methane emissions using unmanned aerial systems: field trial and operational guidance'. It builds on a previous feasibility study of methane sensing from an unmanned aerial system (UAS), which presented guidance on sensor and platform technology, together
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Event 38, a manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles for business and its key Peruvian partner, UAV del Peru, a supplier of unmanned aerial systems and professional services in Peru announced that it has won a bid to supply UAS to the Government of Peru. Under this agreement, the Peruvian government
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The UAS Registration Task Force Committee's Recommendations Final Report (Recommendations) was published as promised on Saturday. The Task Force agreed that it was outside the scope of the Task Force’s objectives to debate or discuss the DOT Secretary’s decision to require registration of sUAS or the
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Leading small drone manufacturer DJI will introduce a dynamic “geofencing” system for its aircraft that continuously updates the airspace conditions where they are flown. The system will provide drone operators with live information on areas subject to temporary flight restrictions and on locations such as prisons and power plants that
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DroneDeploy, a Silicon Valley tech company that develops software for commercial drones, announced today a milestone of 1 million acres of drone data and have launched their software for free to anyone in over 120 countries. CEO Mike Winn explains: “Historically, most drone publicity has been related to one-off examples,
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Astron Environmental Services last month took possession of Western Australia’s first BRAMOR rTK unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), and are now applying the technology in the field for environmental applications. The purchase is the first of its kind in Australia and the second in Australia. The BRAMOR rTK is a
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The Airnest app, which you can download on an iPhone or iPad, allows you to draw a flight-path with your finger that your unmanned aerial system will safely fly on autopilot. Users can control the camera on board the UAS with the new app by panning and tilting the iOS