Department of Homeland Security researchers are pushing to better protect the nation’s coasts and borders by consolidating research efforts and standardizing unmanned operations between two of its agencies.
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uAvionix and Trace’s Draganfly Innovations Team Up to Improve Drone Safety with Ping ADS-B Sense and Avoid
SILICON VALLEY, Calif. and SASKATOON, Saskatchewan, Dec. 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — uAvionix Corporation, the leader in aircraft sense and avoid,…
IdeaForge to raise $10m Series A funding
IdeaForge Technology Pvt. Ltd, the company which manufactures Netra unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), used in the recent Nepal earthquake and…
International Drone Expo (IDE): FLYPRO Is Helping People
Visitors and journalists in front of FLYPRO UAV’s booth SHENZHEN, China, Dec. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — North America’s largest exhibition…
Sensefly’s eBee aids in train derailment investigation
A UAS team from the University of Vermont’s Spatial Analysis Lab flew the eBee to gather data for investigators.
EPRI Holds First UAS Conference
The two-day conference brought UAS vendors and members of the utilities industry together to talk about the benefits of unmanned systems, and to collaborate on ways to move this application forward.
Chinese drones prove mettle in Tianjin disaster
By Fang Yan and Matthew Miller BEIJING (Reuters) – When an explosion devastated parts of China’s Tianjin port in August,…
Northrop Grumman set to develop tail-down UAV for DARPA’s Tern program
The competition to fulfil DARPA’s plan to turn US Navy destroyers and frigates into drone-launching aircraft carriers seems to be…
Three miles high: Using drones to study high-altitude glaciers
SAN FRANCISCO — While some dream of the day that aerial drones deliver their online purchases, scientists are using the…
The very first ‘droneport’ is coming
Reuters Aerodrome, a company that owns and operates teaching airports for commercial drones, has broken ground on the world’s first…
Students work together to control UAS 8,000 miles apart
Through the Aerial International Robotic Racing of Unmanned Systems (AIRUS) competition, students from Texas A&M University and the University of Sydney in Australia demonstrated how to control a drone from the other side of the world by communicating over the Internet.
PrecisionHawk Forms Partnership with Indiana State University
The collaboration will focus on safety, education, training and algorithm development for PrecisionHawk’s DataMapper aerial data software.
Drone Registration System a Boon to Commercial Operators
While some recreational drone flyers are unhappy with new registration requirements, the website they soon will be using could help commercial drone operators now saddled with a carbon-copy process.
Hunter Becomes the Hunted
Rangers in Africa’s wildlife parks are getting access to predictive algorithms and surveillance drones with help from researchers and nonprofits formed to help counter poachers.
Five Good Questions: Congressman Dan Lipinski
An engineer by training with a love of technology, Lipinski represents the Third District of Illinois and is a member…
UAS Fighting Wildfires
Unmanned aerial systems could prove to be an important tool in the fight against wildfires. Recent demonstrations show just how useful UAS can be as firefighters battle these complex, dangerous fires.
Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership, The Omnicon Group to expand unmanned aircraft testing, certification
BLACKSBURG, Va., Dec. 8, 2015 – The Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership at Virginia Tech has signed an agreement with The Omnicon…
