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No Bridge Too Far: Drones Find a Niche in Bridge Inspections
Minnesota, considered a leader in using unmanned aircraft to conduct bridge inspections, has now instituted training classes for state inspectors to he help them learn to use the drones and, more importantly, to use the data.
Trends: Drones Improving Inspections
Drones are becoming a common inspection tool across various industries, enhancing efficiencies, providing more accurate data and improving safety.
New EU Actions for European Drone Market
The European Commission is set to launch new activities under its recently adopted European Drone Strategy 2.0.
Unmanned Systems in the Air and On the Water Help Study Rapid Hurricane Intensification
NOAA researchers are using unmanned systems in the air and on the water to study hurricane boundary layers for clues…
Measuring Global Ice Melt
Drones become tool of choice in monitoring threatened glaciers and ice sheets.
The Quest for CO2: You Can’t Capture What You Can’t Find
Carbon is the No. 1 greenhouse gas contributing to global warming. Understanding where it is located, whether in ocean waters…
FTUAS Engages Increment 2
Enhanced White Paper evaluation has been completed for the Future Tactical UAS. The long quest to replace the RQ-7 Shadow…
Trends: The Sensor Evolution
As drones realize an increasing level of autonomy, the technology opens up even more possibilities for coast guards and militaries worldwide, as well as in civilian use cases such as crowd and traffic monitoring.
Countering Clueless, Careless, Criminal and Combatant Drone Users
As drone threats proliferate, private and government efforts (start to) respond. The FAA estimates that by 2024 about 2.3 million…
Putting Unmanned Systems on Task Over the Mediterranean
International border control and security authorities along with national authorities are using UAV-based services to keep the Mediterranean region safe and secure.
Liaising in Las Vegas
Trends were on exhibit at the recent CUAV Expo, along with numerous takeaways. Emphasis on innovation and upgrades, data refinement,…
Volatus Aerospace Adds Over 500,000 km of Oil & Gas Pipeline Right of Way Surveillance with Acquisition of Synergy Aviation Ltd.
Volatus Aerospace Corp. announced today that it has signed an arm’s length definitive agreement dated Oct 12, 2022, to acquire…
Drone Company Breaks Endurance Record with New UAS
As a witness to the 9/11 attack, Fatema Hamdani, cofounder and CEO of Kraus Hamdani Aerospace, has often wondered whether…
ALTIUS Drone Hurricane Flight Demonstrates New Way of Measuring Storms
NOAA researchers dropped a drone into the devastating winds of Hurricane Ian, marking the use of a new tool that can give greatly improved measurements of the turbulent boundary layer of a hurricane at lower altitudes.
Inside AI – Advanced Navigation: A Two-Decade Quest to Revolutionize Inertial Navigation
Since the Apollo Project of the 1960s targeted the moon, the venerable Kalman filter has offered estimates of unknown variables…
Day of the Jackal
Northrop Grumman’s Jackal concept munition satisfies a need for speed, and more. Two loitering munitions sat side by side this…
