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Essex Police Force in the UK invested £20,000 in a UAS, but has put the aircraft up for sale without it ever being used. The plan was announced in 2009 and it was hoped the aircraft would be used to survey major events, such as the V Festival, as
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Gang Yu Corp introduced the AI Rider, a system based on a six-rotor unmanned aircraft weighing about 1,450 grammes, during Secutech, an international security exhibition held in Taipei last week. It is Taiwan’s first indigenous unmanned vehicle for aerial photography, hoping to break into a market that so
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Chris Anderson is founder of DIY Drones, the largest amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicle community on the web with 15,000 members, and of 3D Robotics, the commercial arm that serves the DIY Drones online store – “The Amateur UAV Superstore”. Chris is also editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, and wrote The Long
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MAVinci, based in Leimen near Heidelberg, Germany, has announced the introduction of SIRIUS II - a fully integrated orthofoto UAS. The system obtains aerial images and calculates orthofotos and three dimensional elevation models out of the image data. An orthofoto is a geometrically corrected aerial image such that the scale
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Type in ‘drones’ on Google, and it won’t be long before you come across DIY Drones, the largest amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicle community on the web with 15,000 members, and the DIY Drones online store – “The Amateur UAV Superstore”. The site basically caters for the enthusiastic amateur who
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Over the weekend, Japanese energy company TEPCO released new footage taken by unmanned helicopters. The first clip is mainly overhead views with some scary vapours being emitted at one stage: The second goes into one of the buildings and shows the total devastation inside one of the reactor buildings:
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Air and Marine has played a crucial role in responding to the severe flooding of the Red River in the upper Midwest. CBP unmanned aerial systems began providing imagery around the Red River Valley area to the National Weather Service
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An aerial remote sensing system studied by Oregon State University may provide a new way for the state's nurseries to check inventories. OSU Willamette Valley trials are underway in conjunction with University of Florida and University of Arkansas researchers at three Oregon nurseries. Using unmanned multi-rotor aircraft, the
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Brazil's military has outlined requirements, valued at up to $11 billion, to establish two vast new surveillance networks with coverage ranging from the remote and lawless north-west border to the oil fields discovered hundreds of kilometres off the country's eastern coastline. Both programmes would create surveillance
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Tokyo Electric Power is putting remote controlled machinery to use at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. This video was shot by one of the Hélipse unmanned helicopters on Sunday and shows the plant's number four reactor building.
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The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has planned to introduce UAS for research of tropical storm and cyclone genesis, reports The Times of India. These UAS would be able to enter inside the cyclonic circulation to study them, which is not possible at present. "The project, which is the first
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Ten years ago, Jeff Imel never imagined that his hobby – building model aeroplanes – would become a full-time occupation. Today, AirRobotics is carving out a niche for its indestructible UAS in the coal-mining areas of West Virginia. With no vertical surfaces and its matt-black paint job, it looks somewhat like a