The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) is partnering with the Canadian Coast Guard to trial the use of commercial unmanned aerial vehicles in its coastal patrol operations.
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Airbus and Textron to Test Shadow for French Requirement
An Airbus Defence & Space and Textron Systems team is due to travel to Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, USA this week, to carry out testing of its offering for France’s tactical unmanned air vehicle requirement for the French DGA defence procurement agency.
NATO Global Hawk to be Tested at Edwards AFB
Northrop Grumman’s family of high-altitude long endurance unmanned aircraft systems welcomed its newest member June 4. The new Alliance Ground Surveillance system is the first of five being built for NATO.
Rentokil May use Drones for Bird Control
Pest control firm Rentokil Initial is looking into using drones for bird pest control, according to the firm’s global director of enterprise, Anthony Meadows.
Meadows, who was speaking at Computing‘s Enterprise Mobility and Application Management Summit 2015 , said that the company has to carry out a lot of ‘bird work’, and that it is looking into the use of drones as an alternative control method.
Gray Eagle’s Advanced Communications Gear Tested
Soldiers have put the MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system, or UAS, through its paces this month using advanced ground controls. Continue reading
Drone to Fly Autonomously Inside Fukushima Reactor
A drone is being developed to survey the interior of reactor buildings at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 plant. The unmanned aircraft will use lasers to detect and avoid obstacles in flight and will be able to land to replace its batteries in the absence of an operator. Continue reading
Microsoft to use Drones to Predict Disease Outbreaks
Microsoft, founded by a man who is not a fan of mosquitoes, wants to develop drones to detect and catch mosquitoes. Researchers on the ominously named Project Premonition will then take blood samples from the mosquitoes to determine if they are carrying diseases from animals they’ve bitten, or any diseases they’re carrying themselves. Continue reading
Malaysia Deploys UAS for Earthquake Disaster Relief
The Communications and Multimedia Ministry is collaborating with the Malaysian Emergency Response System (Mers 999) to do aerial surveys and mapping of the areas affected by last Friday’s 5.9-magnitude earthquake, by using UAVs.