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The Kansas State University Department of Agronomy recently purchased a new MAJA Unmanned Aircraft System, with the intent of installing imaging systems on it for studying plant productivity, monitoring plant growth stages, assessing plant health, and mapping plant composition for characterizing changes in distribution of invasive and toxic plant species.
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The AggieAir Flying Circus is a service center at the Utah Water Research Laboratory that provides high resolution, multispectral aerial imagery using a small, unmanned aircraft system called AggieAir. Because AggieAir is a low-cost, easy-to-use platform it is able to map small areas quicker, more frequently, at finer resolution, and
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The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to soon green light the use of small unmanned aircraft by emergency services. Some sheriffs' departments in the Northwest are showing interest in these aircraft. A booth rented by Prioria Robotics drew a crowd this week at the 2012 Partners in Emergency Preparedness
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Techies in Silicon Valley are sending the three-to-six foot wide unmanned aircraft, guided by computers, radios and soon cell-phones, to survey fields, capture action shots from the air or follow them around to snap photos at optimal angles.About their only constraints: a 400-foot ceiling for amateur aircraft set by
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The State of Hawaii purchased an unmanned surveillance aircraft last year to patrol the skies over Honolulu Harbour but the aircraft can’t be flown because of heavy air traffic in the area. The $75,000 aircraft was delivered last June – six months after Hawaii Reporter disclosed that the state
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CAE and Aeronautics have announced that the first series of flights of the Miskam unmanned aircraft system (UAS) have been conducted successfully over the past several weeks at the UAS Centre of Excellence (Centre d’excellence des drones) located at Alma airport in Quebec, Canada. The demonstration flights represent the
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Starting April 15, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will use the help of unmanned aircraft equipped with closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras for its traffic monitoring system. MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino has announced that they would start testing the aircraft next week. The unmanned aircraft were built by high
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The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has completed tests determining that unmanned aircraft systems can be used effectively to assess storm damage on utility distribution systems. Conducted at the New Mexico State University Flight Test Center, the tests involved navigating several aircraft technologies and using high resolution video cameras to
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Researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have used unmanned aircraft in three trials to count the number of sandhill cranes that visit the Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge and found them to be a safe alternative for both birds and scientists.
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In what could well have been an April 1 message, the world's largest BitTorrent site announced that intends to redefine "cloud computing" with a plan to move at least some of its servers onto unmanned aircraft miles above Sweden. In a recent blog post, The Pirate
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When Elbit Systems announced a $50 million sale “to supply Hermes 900 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to a governmental office of a country in the Americas” on Jan. 3,there was speculation that Colombia was the buyer. The contract called for “systems such as the Universal Ground Control Stations (UGCS)
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Russian military aircraft manufacturer Irkut has signed a contract with Vietnam to build a small unmanned aircraft for the Southeast Asian country, Izvestia daily reported last week. The $10 million deal, with Vietnam Aerospace Association (VASA), was signed last week, Yury Malov, head of the Irkut Engineering, Irkut's