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With much of Australia looking like reverting to a dry bushfire-prone weather pattern avionics engineers at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) are pulling out all stops to develop the technology to enable remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) to become airborne. Professor Duncan Campbell who heads the Australian Research Centre for Aerospace
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Scientists propose using UAS to cloud seed in an effort to reduce the intensity of a hurricane. In a paper published in Atmospheric Science Letters, researchers believe cloud seeding marine stratocumulus clouds — which cover an estimated quarter of the world’s oceans – with “copious quantities of seawater cloud condensation nuclei”
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China plans to launch unmanned aircraft in 11 maritime provinces to survey weather patterns and environmental conditions around its coastal waters, according to the State Oceanic Administration, Legal Daily reported. The programme will include the construction of launching stations in China’s 11 coastal provinces, deploying at least one aircraft
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TV news-gathering gadgetry doesn’t get any sexier than the Camcopter S-100, a military-grade unmanned aircraft manufactured by the Austrian Schiebel Corp. Now, thanks to Schiebel’s partnerships with the U.S. companies Brain Farm and Snaproll Media, both of which specialize in aerial photography, the Camcopter is capable of
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Altavian announced that it has received a five-year contract from the US Army Corps of Engineers to maintain and support its unmanned aircraft used for surveys and inspections in Florida and Puerto Rico. The Army Corps’ Jacksonville District had a contract since October 2011 to use Altavian’s Nova aircraft
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Federal officials say unmanned aircraft will not be patrolling downtown's skies and streets during this week's Republican National Convention. A Naples company planned to outfit small unmanned helicopters and ground vehicles with cameras and operate them on behalf of unnamed government agencies during the convention, according
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Neil Crosby's Marvyille-based firm, PhotoPlay Aerials, has begun using an unmanned aircraft for projects involving still photography and video shoots.The UAS has six spinning rotors mounted above two curved legs. The camera is mounted underneath, and the device has a flight range of 1,500 feet. The
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Manitoba held an event on August 23 to display their new UAS - the police now has two of the units, which can be used for aerial photography and video of crime and crash scenes. “It is another investigative tool for documenting evidence and
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AERIE has signed a qualification agreement with Austrian Aircraft Manufacturer HB Flugtechnik, in order to having the capability to even produce parts and models in accordance to EASA Certified Design Organisation, Production Organisation and Maintenance Organisation Approvals. This agreement formalizes a several-year long collaboration and makes AERIE unique on the
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State-of-the-art UAS operated by the Sky Watch charity which joined forces with the Police Service of Northern Ireland, are to be deployed for the first time in a missing person search in Northern Ireland later this week. At least one of the UAS — and possibly an auto-gyro or a light
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Although it's still the "dawn of drone ecology," as one innovator calls it, these unmanned aircraft are already skimming over Indonesia's jungle canopy to photograph orangutans, protecting rhinos in Nepal and studying invasive aquatic plants in Florida. Relatively cheap, portable and earth-hugging, they fill
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The Bellevue Fire Department's latest tool is a Draganflyer VTOL UAS, equipped with cameras that transmit photos and video to firefighters and rescue personnel, and it's expected to be useful managing incidents involving hazardous materials. The device was purchased from Draganfly Innovations Inc. with a $25,