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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,
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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
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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
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Last week, Cyprus Institute’s Energy, Environment and Water Research Centre (EEWRC) held a three day UAS workshop that ended with a flight demonstration. Director, Manfred Lange, said that recent technological advances made by his team could offer an economical ways to help farmers, climatologists and event archaeologists. Four aircraft
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The US Coast Guard is training up UAS pilots in anticipation of Congress providing funding for its own aircraft. The skeleton of the service’s UAS programme is taking shape at the Aviation Training Centre, Mobile, Alabama. The Coast Guard has trained three pilots, officers with manned flight experience to
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The Welsh Assembly Government has just launched a two year research and development programme to explore the potential for advanced remote sensing, using small unmanned aircraft, for use in land applications, primarily high input arable farming. The programme is called Project URSULA - UAS Remote Sensing for Use in Land Applications.
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The epic India-Pakistan cricket match World Cup semi-final which be witnessed today by the Prime Ministers of both countries in Mohali in India’s Punjab, is a source of great concern for security forces. The Times of India reported that Israeli-made UAS, also during the Commonwealth Games