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Unmanned Aircraft Systems will be used August 21-23 to monitor Missouri River bank erosion on the Lower Brule Reservation, S.D. The flights, conducted for a second time by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Environmental Protection Office, will occur along a 7-mile
Commercial
The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) has adopted guidelines for the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in law enforcement applications. The guidelines provide law enforcement agencies an outline of how to use UAS safely and responsibly, and with respect to individuals’ privacy. The IACP guidelines cover community
Lighter Than Air
TCOM Aerostat The U.S. military is joining with border-patrol officials in a new initiative that could bring dozens of surveillance aerostats from the battlefields of Afghanistan to America's border with Mexico. Over the next few weeks, the military will oversee a test in south Texas to determine
Training
To prepare for natural calamities, such as earthquakes, the 163rd Reconnaissance Wing and local emergency officials partnered to plan and execute Grizzly Field Exercise 2012, or GFX 12. The scope of the exercise included a simulated earthquake in Southern California with damage to the infrastructure, numerous injuries, and some fatalities.
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The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Public Affairs - Visual Communications Division - just released this video of the CBP UAS Guardian.The CBP (Customs and Border Protection) UAS Guardian is the maritime variant of the Predator B Unmanned Aircraft System. Source: YouTube
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C-ASTRAL Ltd, the Slovenian UAS manufacturer has flown an 80 minute mapping mission at 4150 m ASL in support of the mining operations in one of the world’s highest mines, the Los Pelambres complex in the Chillean Andes. A precise DTM of the current mining area was created during
VTOL
UNOSAT continues to pioneer the use of UAS by testing live video streaming at the Paleo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland. The first UAS mission was deployed in Haiti last February to analyse damages to assess building reconstruction. The UAS used in the test, also known as md4-200, is a product
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MLB has announced that it has concluded a high-resolution assessment of carbon dynamics in seagrass and coral reef biomes in partnership with the UAV Collaborative to better understand the dynamics of vulnerable near shore environments. Over a 9-day period, MLB Bat 4 successfully flew six flights in Class G airspace
Commercial
Officials at the Pickles Butte Landfill in Caldwell, Idaho are using Avian Mitigation Drones, which, in other words, are remote-controlled eagles that are keeping the birds away from the landfill. "You'd be surprised how well this works," said Jack Biddle, landfill director. "The first time
Commercial
A small UAS is being developed for use at some of the oldest radioactive silos at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site because scientists are not sure what is inside them, according to the UK's Guardian newspaper. The hope is that an unmanned aircraft could use laser profiling to
Business
Singular Aircraft has announced that it is developing a low cost unmanned, amphibious, twin-engined aircraft able to land and take off from short unpaved airstrips & water.It is designed for fire-fighting, agricultural, transport and surveillance with MTOW of 3.500Kg and Payload of 2.200Kg. The aircraft is currently
Commercial
The SUAVe -- for Semi-autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle -- system developed by Vanderbilt and Aurora Flight Services should dramatically reduce the time it takes to map archaeological sites. Archaeological sites that currently take years to map will be completed in minutes if tests underway in Peru of a new system