Non-Military & Commercial UAS
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 unmanned aircraft to assess
Non-Military & Commercial UAS
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 GPS tracking unit, all for
Non-Military & Commercial UAS
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. “The
News
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 by
Applications & Testing & Experience
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 air
Non-Military & Commercial UAS
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
Non-Military & Commercial UAS
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 where a
Non-Military & Commercial UAS
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 were
Non-Military & Commercial UAS
Cook County Sheriff Considering Drones: MyFoxCHICAGO.com Chicago - Cook County Sheriff's Office is considering using unmanned aircraft that they consider to be far less expensive and more effective than the helicopters that have been the county's eyes-in-the-sky. It's a case of local government&
Accident Reporting
An unmanned aircraft once hailed by police as the future of crime-fighting has been declared 'lost at sea' after crashing in to the River Mersey. And police chiefs have decided to abandon the use of the technology - as they can no longer afford to replace it. The
Non-Military & Commercial UAS
Crop physiologist Larry Purcell is employing unmanned aerial reconnaissance to study 1,200 research plots for traits that may help the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture develop drought-tolerant soybean varieties.Purcell, holder of the Altheimer Chair for Soybean Research, and Vaughn Skinner, director of the Arkansas Agricutural Research
Non-Military & Commercial UAS
The Homeland Security Department plans to fly sensor-mounted unmanned aircraft along a greater expanse of the 5,500-mile border with Canada to spot illegal activity, DHS officials told members of Congress last Friday.Along the rugged northern border, remotely controlled planes are better than ground patrols or piloted aircraft at