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Gene Robinson runs his company, RP Flight Systems, out of Wimberley. They’ve given emergency manage crews across the nation an eye in the sky, assisting in everything from fires to missing person searches. "In the field or in a tactical situation, if you have an eye in the
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The need to access weeds in dangerous or remote areas with spraying rigs may soon be a thing of the past. In an Australian first, farmers, miners and other land managers in the central west were treated to a demonstration of how unmanned helicopters can be used for weed management.
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Lian Pin Koh, an ecologist at the ETH Zürich, and Serge Wich, a biologist at the University of Zürich and PanEco, have built their own unmanned aircraft equipped with cameras, sensors and GPS for $2,000. They have already used the remote-controlled aircraft to map deforestation, count orang-utans
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A mystery object, thought to be a military or law enforcement drone, flying in controlled airspace over Denver had a near miss with a commercial jet last week. The pilot of the Cessna jet radioed air traffic controllers to warn them that “A remote controlled aircraft” had flown past his
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The Federal Aviation Administration authorized the Polk County Sheriff's Office to fly an unmanned aircraft armed with a camera from August 2009 to August 2010. The modified Easy Star ready-to-fly, radio-controlled plane was flown more than 400 feet above a portion of the Green Swamp,
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ESTEIO Engenharia e Aerolevantamentos S.A. and Instituto Tecnológico SIMEPAR signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement that visualizes the joint action of these companies in the market of mapping and monitoring with the use of UAS platform. UAS and Low Altitude Photogrammetry are shown as a set of techniques for collecting
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The film industry is turning to UAS to produce exciting images at sensible prices. A beauty shot that used to be possible only with a noisy, polluting passenger helicopter can now be achieved with the flick of a thumb. The camera is mounted on an electric drone called a quadrocopter,
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Nicholls State University in Thibodaux is testing a new kind of eye in the sky to track coastal erosion and the health of Louisiana’s barrier islands more closely. The islands are an important habitant for migratory birds and a frontline protection against hurricanes, but the islands have undergone heavy
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US Navy engineers demonstrated the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities of a ship-based UAS for senior Coast Guard, Navy and Congressional stakeholders in an exercise on the Potomac River. Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) personnel launched the ScanEagle UAS on simulated search and seizure missions, successfully
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A local company says it has signed an agreement with Bowen Basin mining companies in central Queensland to use unmanned aircraft to service local coal mines. UAV Australia says it has ordered two planes to be based in Gladstone and Mackay. Managing director Aonghus Stevens says the planes will be
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This 7-minute video of US Customs and Border Protection Agency Predator B aircraft was just posted on YouTube. It features take-off, in-flight and landing sequences as well as screen shots of fugitives being pursued by a helicopter patrol. Soirce: YouTube
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The Seattle Police Department recently demonstrated how it's newly acquired unmanned aircraft hovers and flies in a warehouse where police vehicles are stored.Officer Reuben Omelanchuk,one of department's two officers trained to fly the aircraft said: "It's very fun, but doing it