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American industry association, the AUVSI published the “Unmanned Aircraft System Operations Industry Code of Conduct a set of guidelines to provide AUVSI members – and those who design, test and operate UAS for public and civil use – with recommendations for their safe, non-intrusive operation. Central to the “Code of Conduct” is
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Manhattan Beach from Hover Effect on Vimeo. Two Marin County men were cited by federal authorities over an unmanned helicopter buzzing around Alcatraz Island, the National Park Service reported. The operator of the remote-controlled helicopter, which is equipped with high-definition cameras, was Devin Hedrick, an aerial photographer who lives in
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Known as Navigation via Signals of Opportunity (NAVSOP), BAE Systems’ new system is able to calculate its position by making use of the hundreds of different signals that are all around us. By exploiting such a wide range of signals, NAVSOP is resistant to hostile interference such as jamming (a
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The United States is flying unmanned reconnaissance planes over Syria to monitor the regime’s escalating crackdown on dissent, U.S. defence officials told NBC television on Saturday. The aircraft are being used to gather evidence on the Syrian security forces’ violence against pro-democracy protesters that can be used to
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The Liberty University School of Aeronautics has announced its first alumni to be hired to operate unmanned aircraft systems. When the school began offering training in unmanned aircraft systems in fall 2011, it was at the forefront of teaching this burgeoning technology to college students. Liberty became just one of
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Film-maker and digital rights expert Caroline Campbell and visual artist Nina McGowan have teamed up to use customized UAS to film unseen parts of Dublin city, including the inside of Facebook’s and Google’s headquarters. Their film, Loitering Theatre, is part of the Science Gallery’s Hack the City
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The London Olympics are no ordinary games. Not since World War II have Britain and the United States teamed up for such a massive security operation on British soil. Hundreds of American intelligence, security and law enforcement officials are flying across the Atlantic for the games that begin July 27.
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The New York Times Magazine recently published an article intriguingly entitled "32 Innovations That Will Change Your Tomorrow". We tend to rewrite the histories of technological innovation, making myths about a guy who had a great idea that changed the world. In reality, though, innovation isn’t the
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This month, the US Army planned to deploy to Afghanistan unmanned helicopter programmed to use high-tech cameras to monitor vast amounts of territory. But now the Army has moved to shut down production — possibly ending the programme forever. The aircraft is the A160 Hummingbird, which the Army planned to equip
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Insitu Pacific, the Australia-based subsidiary of Insitu Inc., announced that it will employ its ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system on behalf of the Queensland Government for the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) for the first Siam weed detection trials using UAS. “These UAS trials are an important step in
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Israeli unmanned aircraft system manufacturers BlueBird and UAS Technologies are jointly completing the development of a design with a maximum take-off weight of 24kg (53lb) and an endurance of 24 hours. The aircraft is based on UAS Technologies' UAS 20 (above), which is 1.6m (5.3ft) long and
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Russia’s military hardware manufacturers have already started developing their own unmanned aircraft. Although this is a secret task, experts say that these aircraft could be similar to the American Predators.Most likely, two Russian companies will carry out this task, says UAS expert Denis Fedutinov. “At present, two Russian