The University of Tasmania’s Terra Luma project is using unmanned aircraft systems for environmental and agricultural remote sensing and aerial survey work.
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
UAS to Detect Fruit Tree Diseases in Flanders
Tree diseases can wreak havoc in fruit orchards, and the disease known as fire blight is notorious in Flanders. To detect this disease more quickly, the Fruit Test Centre in Sint-Truiden and the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (Vito) are working on a new detection system. Continue reading
UAS Video of Train Derailment in Virginia
ABC News is very proud of this video shot from a UAS. Viewers comments suggest that news helicopters are now a thing of the past. Continue reading
Aerial Advertising by UAS
DroneCast, a newly-formed high-flying advertising company, took its first flight in Philadelphia on Monday afternoon — launching from Eakins’s Oval along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Continue reading
Students Launch UAS Crowd-Funding Campaign
Cal State Fullerton is experimenting with crowdfunding to provide student groups and organizations with assistance in their major projects. University Advancement, which manages donation programs, has selected four projects as part of a pilot program that will serve as an experiment to see what funding goals can best attract potential donors. Continue reading
Ottawa’s GooseBuster Produces Results
Steve Wambolt, an-ex IBM and Corel employee designed a hexicopter system fit with lights and blasting predator noises to rid a beach in Ottawa of pesky geese and has produced conclusive results. Continue reading
UAS in Brazil Monitor Amazon Rainforest
Brazilian municipalities are planning to use UAS to map properties and monitor forest cover as they move to step up enforcement of the country’s Forest Code, reports The Financial Times. Continue reading
Maximising Data Driven Technology Development for Precision Agriculture
Executing focused and collaborative approaches in using cross functional tools within the field of unmanned systems will become increasingly important in meeting today’s needs and tomorrow’s challenges for precision agriculture. How we collectively approach technology development and dual use R&D will become increasingly important in our ability to support and sustain the needs of data driven operations across a landscape of competing interest and need.