Australian geospatial technology provider, Ultimate Positioning Group (UPG), recently announced a new one-week training course for UAS owners to gain their remote pilot certification – a first on the Australian market, they claim. Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2013
UAS Help California Vineyard Plan Irrigation
DRNK Wines, a vineyard located in Sebastolpol, California, recently had 3D Robotics fly a UAS over its fields. 3D Robotics specializes in piloting systems for smaller UAS, and the vineyard used 3D Robotics’s route-plotting software for mapping out the aircraft’s precise path. Continue reading
New UAS Tech Centre to be Built Near Barcelona
CATUAV has started this week the construction of a tech centre for UAS, robotics and remote sensing civil projects. The CATUAV Tech Center (CTC) will be open to any company, research center, university or individual interested on using its UAS airfield and facilities in order to develop, test and/or certify UAS technology. Continue reading
Rolls-Royce to Develop New Services Facility for Global Hawk Engines
Rolls-Royce will open a new engine depot services facility at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma to support the US Air Force Global Hawk fleet. The company has been awarded a $49 million contract to establish the new facility, which is expected to begin operations in 2015. Continue reading
US to Station Global Hawks in Japan
The U.S. military will deploy long-range Global Hawks from Japan next year, U.S. and Japanese officials announced, marking the first time the Pentagon has been able to secure basing rights for the advanced unmanned aircraft in Northeast Asia. Continue reading
Simlat to Deliver Advanced UAS & ISR Training and Simulation Classroom to Northland College
Simlat Ltd. was selected to provide an UAS & ISR Training & Simulation Center for the Northland Imagery Analysis college programme. Northland’s Imagery Analysis and Geospatial Intelligence programmes are the first of their kind in America. Continue reading
Silent Falcon Prepares to Make a Noise
Silent Falcon is a small company working to develop a solar-powered UAS with an advanced camera system and on Oct. 1, said company CEO John Brown, it launched its Silent Falcon Marketing to start selling the systems. Continue reading
3D Robotics President John Cherbini on Fox Business News
Fox Business News interviews 3D Robotics President John Cherbini to discover how they intend to spend their recent investment of $30M. Continue reading