A firm of engineers based at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in England, that offer services to global oil and gas operators has invested in a fleet of UAS to allow them to survey hard-to-reach locations. MACAW Engineering, based at Quorum Business Park, has bought the UAS to use on inspections at production plants, pipelines and other energy facilities. Continue reading
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
KATSU and The Graffiti Drone
KATSU is an artist and vandal. His work pushes our idea of what can be achieved with the graffiti artist’s limited tool set. Having established himself as one of New York City’s most prolific and imaginative taggers in the 1990s, KATSU garnered admiration from the arts community (and condemnation from the authorities) when he pioneered the fire extinguisher spray can, which has permitted him to expand the scale of his art by orders of magnitude. Continue reading
Thieves Use Heat-Detecting UAS to Target Cannabis Farms
Criminals are using cheap kit bought from supermarkets to build heat seeking UAS they can use to track down cannabis farms to rob. Tech-savvy thieves are buying UAS for as little as £60 from supermarkets such as Tesco and attaching infra-red cameras to them, which they can monitor via an iPad. Continue reading
senseFly Announces eBee Ag Aerial Imaging UAS for Precision Agriculture
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senseFly has launched the eBee Ag, a fully autonomous aerial imaging UAS for precision agriculture applications. Continue reading
GoFor is the Uber for UAS
Gofor was created as a concept to explore what an on-demand drone service would look like for normal people. While the service is obviously not real, the finished product is packaged together so well that it almost seems possible. Continue reading
Greece Issues RFP for UAS for Immigration Control
The Greek government in a pilot project is expected to use UAS in order to be able to oversee the country’s sea border in the Aegean sea — which is considered one of the main avenues for immigration into Europe. Greece’ s Ministry of Marine and Aegean Sea has already issued a competition call for a UAS which will be handed to the Greek authorities by the end of June. Continue reading
UAS Survey Looted Dead Sea Sites in Jordan
A video camera strapped to the nose of an unmanned aircraft first shows only a spinning, sunlit horizon in the barrens of southern Jordan. Then the camera swoops, low and slow, over a hilltop whose surface recalls photographs of the lunar battlefields of World War I Europe. Crater after crater gouge the hill’s stony surface. It looks like the aftermath of a murderous artillery barrage. Continue reading
UAS Help Map Fukushima Cleanup and Reconstruction
Drone Adventures was founded a year ago, and they’ve been busy conducting post-disaster autonomous UAS mapping missions in places like Haiti, where updated maps can be critical to aid distribution (in the short term) and infrastructure management and repair (in the long term). Continue reading