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The Police Service of Northern Ireland is considering the use of mini UAS to combat crime and the dissident republican threat. The aircraft under consideration is the Scout from Aeryon Labs. It is fitted with a camera that automatically tracks a subject, can relay live pictures back to the operator,
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At the most recent City Council meeting, officials gave Arlington Police Department permission to use of about $202,000 in Department of Homeland Security grant money to buy two small unmanned aircraft. The aircraft, known as Leptron Avengers, are battery-operated helicopters designed to take high-resolution video and photos
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Scientists from the University of Costa Rica have developed a low-cost unmanned aircraft to monitor steam emissions and other atmospheric markers at Costa Rica's Aranel Volcano. The last serious eruption was in 1998, although the steady emission of steam is a constant reminder of its potential to
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BCB International's SQ-4 weighs only 2.9 ozs. (82 grams), flies up to 400 feet in the air, fits in the palm of a hand, contains two video cameras, can hover in place and perch on ledges, and automatically returns “home” when its battery runs low. The
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Architects have been using a remote-controlled aircraft to survey the historic Stirling Bridge in Scotland. The 500-year-old bridge has been suffering "severe problems" with water ingress, which is eroding the masonry. A team from Historic Scotland, which looks after the four-arched structure, used the
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A remote colony of birds kept flying away before anyone could count them, so a team of ecologists built a do-it-yourself unmanned aircraft to spy on them from above.The team made their UAS out of a 4.6-foot-wide radio-controlled airplane, two cameras and a
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Head of the Khomeini-Shahr branch of the Islamic Azad University, Khalifeh Soltani, announced on Monday that a group of students have built an unmanned aircraft which specializes in rescue and relief operations. It has been built in a period of seven months and has cost about USD 15,000.
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The process of establishing the world’s first operational lunar base and propellant depot business in space is underway as the Shackelton Energy Company launches its initial fund raising campaign. This comes in the footsteps of recent amazing new discoveries of huge deposits of propellant-feedstock ice on the moon
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NASA's Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment, or ATTREX, will conduct this research over the Pacific Ocean from three locations in 2013 and 2014. A consortium of scientists are in the early stages of preparation for a multi-year airborne science campaign to study the humidity and chemical composition of
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The project for an Airborne Avalanche Rescue System by designer Tatjana Rolle aims to decrease crucial emergency rescue times after avalanches by utilizing autonomous airborne drones to detect and mark the position of victims. Immediately following the avalanche, the activated drone leaves its solar charging station, scouts the area and
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Kelly Cohen, associate professor of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics at the University of Cincinnati, supervises a project known as SIERRA (Surveillance for Intelligent Emergency Response Robotic Aircraft) which integrates small, unmanned aircraft with global positioning systems, environmental data, video and fire-prediction software to give real-time information about
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Archaeological researchers are an early adopter of remote sensing technology but until the early part of the twenty-first century data was primarily limited to aerial/satellite imagery and photogrammetry. These methods were rather successful for a number of projects, most notably investigations of the geoglyphs of Nazca, Peru, but