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The US Customs and Border Protection Agency is looking for a contractor that can help it evaluate the feasibility of using Unmanned Aircraft Systems to monitor the movement of possible human intruders into the United States along the U.S.-Mexican border. CBP’s office of air and marine currently
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Energy companies have been testing small, unmanned aircraft as potential pipeline and drilling rig monitors. After the government, no one is as interested in unmanned systems as the energy industry. (The Interior Department has more than 40 unmanned aerial systems that it uses to monitor wildlife and fires.) Many of
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The German Parliament is about to approve a new law to include unmanned aircraft in air traffic laws. The police already have unmanned aircraft, which they use to monitor demonstrations, for example. They were used for the first time about a year ago during protests against a nuclear waste transport
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The NYPD could be exploring plans to use unmanned aircraft as a law enforcement tool in New York City to keep an eye on city parks and streets. In a recent email obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, an NYPD Detective in the Counterterrorism Unit asks the Federal Aviation
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The Miami-Dade Police Department finally stands ready to launch their two Honeywell T-Hawk micro air vehicles, or MAVs, the next time a shooting standoff or hostage situation could use a bird's eye boost, more than two years after acquiring the equipment. "It has no weapons," said
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Thales and Aerovisión have given a real flight demonstration of the Fulmar for the European Agency Frontex, the organism in charge of coordinating the border control operations of the European Union member states.Fulmar is a wholly Spanish project that is a global solution that uses the Maritime Surveillance Systems
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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