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Modern drones will watch over Dominican Republic’s national parks and protected areas, as the result of a donation from the company Petro Caribe, the Environment Ministry revealed. The ‘Syn-drone,’ which features digital high-resolution panoramic view and can climb to an altitude of more than two kilometers (around 8,000
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Cambridge-based Fly4Me hosts a website that connects drone pilots with customers who want surveys, maps, building inspections, and other tasks suited to a drone’s unique perspective. The startup officially opened for business last week, following approval from the Federal Aviation Administration this spring. The commercial use of drone aircraft
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There is nothing really unique about someone making drones, but Moses Gichanga Mwaura is doing it for a different cause – to save our wildlife. Armed with a laptop installed with specialised software he has developed, Mwaura , 31, controls an unmanned aerial system commonly known as drones, which are designed using
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WinterGreen Research announced that it has published a new study Commercial Drones: Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2015 to 2021. Next generation commercial drones achieve a complete replacement of existing commercial airfreight delivery systems, they are used for 3D mapping, commercial pipeline observation, border patrol, package delivery, photography, and
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The Environmental Protection Bureau of Taichung in central Taiwan has decided to deploy cameras attached to drones in its efforts to catch those damaging air quality and jeopardizing road traffic safety by burning dry straw on open ground. It will be the first time the city has used this form
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Extreme Flyers Micro Drone 2.0 already made a mark by being one of the tiniest drones — it basically fits in one hand — to carry a camera. Admittedly, the camera was pretty low-rent, only capable of 640p video. Micro Drone 3.0, introduced via a new Indiegogo campaign, upgrades the
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With a newly granted Federal Aviation Administration exemption, HYSight Technologies is expanding its offerings well beyond the scope of public safety and service sector agencies. “It shouldn’t be a surprise to look up soon and see HYSight drones inspecting your power lines or the roofing job next door,” says
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Aero Kinetics is an Aerospace and Defense firm, and one of their key business units is focused on Unmanned Aircraft Systems. The company was founded by W. Hulsey Smith in 2003, and they’re now the first firm to file for FAA Type Certification for multi-rotor, unmanned aircraft. “We want
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KHGI-TV/KWNB-TV/KHGI-CD-Grand Island, Kearney, Hastings A whir of engine and flick of controller pushes remote controlled planes high in the sky in Grand Island, NE - “We have probably 100 airplanes and a couple hundred pilots out here,” says Jim Stulken. Stulken is president of the Grand Island Modeler&
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Finally, after nearly 200 years, the Richmond Diocese has its first aircraft. The Holy Spirit 1 will be roving the diocese – one of the oldest in the land – scanning its 33,000 square miles and 147 parishes and numerous schools and other properties . . . for leaky roofs. “The biggest problem we
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The Bureau of Reclamation has selected New Mexico State University to perform the first Reclamation dam inspection using an unmanned aircraft system (UAS). New Mexico’s team will perform research at Elephant Butte Dam in New Mexico, a project estimated at $35,000 that the Bureau will fund. The New
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A team at Georgia Institute of Techology figured out that moths can purposefully slow their brain activity so as to see better in low-light conditions, keeping their nectar-sipping position at flowers even when the plants are moving, and potentially opening the door to future machine vision systems that can react