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A camera-equipped Aeryon Scout flew over Nome this week to help a Russian fuel tanker, the Renda, get a perspective on the sea ice near the town’s harbour. The Renda is sailing to Nome to deliver fuel. The town’s supply is expected to run out before spring. The
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Yellowtail Aviation, an unmanned aerial inspection company, has announced Aero-Eyes, an unmanned aircraft inspection service for wind turbine blade inspection,which uses the cbyerquad platform from Australia’s Cyber Technology. Yellowtail’s Aero- Eyes UAS are fitted with high-definition, high-resolution video, still and in some cases thermal imaging cameras. Remotely
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US Customs and Border Protection officials are looking to expand the use of remotely piloted surveillance aircraft to cover nearly all of California, allowing the unmanned aircraft to fly over the last major section of the Southwest border. The agency's Office of Air and Marine expects the Federal
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KIPPENBERGER DRONE SHOWREEL 2011 from christopher kippenberger on Vimeo. This video of the Nürburgring car racetrack in Germany was produced by German firm Kippenberger, which is looking to bring affordable airborne videos to the car scene. Renting a helicopter for the day can cost up to $50,000 before the
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Thom Hartmann of RT America's "The Big Picture" interviews Tim Pool of "Timcast-Tv" about using his "OccuCopter" to film the police in New York City as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Tim was inspired by the use of unmanned aircraft
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The conservation group Sea Shepherd has been told by the Australian Antarctic Division that its UAS must undergo an urgent environmental impact assessment (EIA) if they are to be used in waters covered by the Antarctic Treaty. The aircraft were used by the group last month to find the factory
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US Customs and Border Protection received its ninth unmanned aircraft late December, the fourth at National Air Security Operations Center in Sierra Vista, Arizona. Flights performed from this location will provide critical aerial surveillance to CBP border security personnel on the ground along the Southwest border. The arrival of the
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The Federal Police in the Parana district in Brazil have recently begun to operate a Heron-1 supplied by Israel Aerospace Industries. The Heron will perform missions in the San Miguel de Iguacu area as part of the overall effort to fight drug trafficking. The Brazilian police say that by 2014,
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Georgia-based MarcusUAV is promoting its Zephyr system as the latest application for using an eye in the sky system for catching poachers. The main question asked by forest park rangers and game wardens is “How much ground can we cover?” The answer to this question depends on how much detail
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Federal law enforcement authorities are rapidly expanding a military-style unmanned aerial reconnaissance operation along the US-Mexico border. Fans of the Predators say the $20 million aircraft are a perfect platform to keep a watchful eye on America’s rugged borders, but critics say the drones are expensive, invasive and finicky
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An international non-profit society dedicated to protecting marine mammals says it is using unmanned aircraft to monitor a Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said that it deployed one of the aircraft on Christmas Day, to intercept the Japanese factory ship Nisshin Maru about
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L2 Aerospace’s Instant Eyes is a 9-inch UAS, can be set up and launched in about 20 seconds, reaching up to 2,500 feet high. When it hits its target altitude, it deploys a sensor platform with a parachute, which takes five-megapixel images of the ground below and transmits