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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
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The Ulster Society Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Northern Ireland has been using a quadrocopter to expose the secretive world of Badger baiting. Badgers are a protected species and killing one can lead to a prison sentence. That has not deterred the criminal gangs who dig into setts in
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An enthusiast from Russia has created a replica of Doc Brown’s DeLorean from Back to the Future, fully capable of flight thanks to the included Turnigy 2204-14T motors. The car has been pimped out with plenty of LEDs, with the wheels doubling as propellers. It even has a Mr.
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Police in Queensland, Australia, are testing a hi-tech surveillance UAS that can be used to chase criminals, detect drug crops and find missing people all at a fraction of the cost of a helicopter. A police spokesman confirmed testing was under way but would not give details on what the
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A new method for managing irrigation with UAS may be easier and more effective than anything used by farmers today. It's designed to solve a pressing problem for California orange farmers: getting the coveted "Fancy" quality classification for their fruit. Left at a constant irrigation level,
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Robert Fitzgerald, a 22-year Air Force veteran and president of BOSH Global Services is optimistic about the future. The company doesn't build unmanned aircraft, but it provides flight training, classroom instruction, technical support and other services. Headquartered in Newport News, its clients include the US military, the intelligence
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At Jornada Experimental Range in southern New Mexico, ongoing research is aimed at determining the utility of UAS for rangeland mapping and monitoring and developing an operational UAS-based remote sensing programme for ecological applications. USDA scientists Al Rango and Andrea Laliberte are leading a team to conduct ongoing research at