Thirteen years ago, New Mexico State University held its first UAS TAAC (Technical Analysis and Applications Center) conference, primarily focused on the civil use of UAS in the United States. The conference was one of a very few UAS conferences held in the United States at the time.
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Rainbow Services Offers Customised UAS Pipeline Surveillance System
Serial entrepreneur Hans-Christian Stuber left SwissCopter AG at the end of 2010 to set up a new business at the beginning of 2011, Rainbow Services, one of the first European consultants in the field of Unmanned Aircraft Systems applications.
ShadowHawk Approved by Homeland Security for Use in the United States
The Sheriff’s Office of Montgomery County, Texas was recently awarded a grant by the Department of Homeland Security for a squadron of ShadowHawks.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Tests Draganflyer to Replace Helicopters
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is testing a Draganflyer to hover over crash sites and crime scenes to take photos or beam video back to officers on the ground. The remote-controlled unmanned aircraft should help crash analysts get better, faster images to reconstruct what happened.
European Commission Adopts Eurocontrol’s Surveillance Performance and Interoperability (SPI) and Aircraft Identification (ACID) Proposals
The European Commission is proceeding with the formal adoption process of the Surveillance Performance and Interoperability (SPI) and Aircraft Identification (ACID) rules after the Single European Sky Committee approved implementation last Thursday in Brussels.
UAV-g 2011 – Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Geomatics Conference
The ETH Zurich, Campus Science City (Hoenggerberg), Switzerland is organizing a conference with the focus on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Geomatics (UAV-g) on September 14-16, 2011. The programme is now available.
AeroVironment Introduces Shrike VTOL Unmanned Aircraft System
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AeroVironment, Inc. has introduced its lightweight and man-portable Shrike VTOL unmanned aircraft system.
India Deploys Herons along Border in Indian-held Kashmir
Indian Army has deployed Herons in Northern part of Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) to track the movement of Kashmiris. 16 Herons were originally supplied to the Indian Army in 2007 by IAI – 8 of which are thought to be operated out of several bases including Mansbal.