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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
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This video demonstrates the automated tablet flight capabilities of the SwiftSight Unmanned Aircraft System. This system, developed by Dynetics, represents ease of use and construction for law enforcement officers, military personnel, emergency responders and hobbyists alike. Source: YouTube
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Farmers in Idaho, in conjunction with the Unversity of Idaho, are testing unmanned aircraft as a means to improve efficiency. Robert Blair sees this sudden change in technology and innovation as a new frontier, even for farming, and hopes to create a new trend in agricultural technology. Source: America'
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Australia’s Minister for Tourism, Manufacturing and Small Business, Jan Jarratt, has announced plans to trial unmanned aircraft to catch illegal fishing vessels in waters off Queensland. Ms Jarratt said that the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation has commissioned Brisbane-based Insitu Pacific Pty Ltd to conduct a series
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Armed with a search warrant, Nelson County Sheriff Kelly Janke went looking for six missing cows on the Brossart family farm in the early evening of June 23. Three men brandishing rifles chased him off, he said. Janke knew the gunmen could be anywhere on the 3,000-acre spread in
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High tech wizards from across Texas gathered in Wimberley last Saturday to share what they've learned developing high tech, remote controlled aircraft. "I think you probably would categorise all of us as techno-geeks, because we like the gadgets, we like flying things. We like putting all this
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Photo: NASA NASA researchers have demonstrated the use of an unmanned aircraft to collect very low altitude airborne measurements of greenhouse gases at several sites in California and Nevada. As Earth scientists strive to better understand sources and sinks of atmospheric greenhouse gases, a new aircraft capability developed at NASA