US-based photo service Cooliris wants to bring dramatic aerial photos instantaneously into the hands of consumers via private groups so users can share them on their iPhones or iPads. Cooliris has announced a partnership with UAS manufacturer Aibotix, becoming the first consumer photo application to integrate with UAS. Continue reading
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
UAS Aerobatics – a Creative Solution for Taking Oblique Images
senseFly releases its patent-pending technology for oblique images to enable its fixed-wing mapping UAS to take extraordinary images without the use of a gimbal. Continue reading
Small UAS Probes Antarctic Ice With Radar
A group of researchers from the Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets at the University of Kansas is right now at the sub-glacial Lake Whillans field camp on the Whillans Ice Stream in Antarctica. The team is testing a system they’ve devised that includes a 100-watt ice-penetrating radar carried aboard a small unmanned aircraft system. Continue reading
Bordeaux Classified Vineyards Invest in UAS Technology
Bernard Magrez is to roll out newly-developed vineyard UAS in his four classified Bordeaux estates – Pape Clement, La Tour Carnet, Fombrauge and Haut Peyraguay – before eventually extending them to his entire portfolio of Bordeaux properties, and those in the south of France. Continue reading
DJI Innovations’ S1000 Monster 8-Rotor to Carry Hollywood-Quality Cameras
At CES on Sunday, China’s DJI Innovations showed off its forthcoming S1000, an 8-rotor UAS that was built specifically to carry Canon’s 5D Mark II or Mark III. For those not familiar with camera gear, that’s a setup capable of shooting feature films or documentaries. Continue reading
Parrot Launches MiniDrone & Parrot Jumping Sumo at CES
Parrot‘s been offering up relatively small updates to its AR.Drone line each year at CES, and while the quadcopter is, without question, one of the most immediately recognizable in the space, we’ve been waiting to see a genuinely fresh take on the product. Continue reading
Nova Scotia Royal Canadian Mounted Police to get UAS
The Nova Scotia RCMP is buying five unmanned aircraft systems for a budgeted sum of $165,000 for the purchase, or $33,000 apiece. Continue reading
UAS to Help Pygmy Rabbit Research
In mid-January, scientists from four universities will fly small, unmanned aircraft systems over sagebrush habitat near Magic Reservoir to obtain information about the habitat needs of pygmy rabbits. The pygmy rabbit has been considered for listing as an endangered species since 2003, when the Hailey-based Western Watersheds Project and several other conservation groups filed a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In 2010, the agency rejected the petition on the grounds that it did not have enough data to decide whether the species warranted listing, but a spokesman told the Idaho Mountain Express at that time that the rabbits’ sagebrush habitat was clearly shrinking. Continue reading