Understanding the present demand for a range of applications and diversities, Eqquera Inc., innovated and is researching and developing Unmanned Aircraft System capable of carrying various payloads and engaging in multiple missions from protecting the environment to combat missions. The project is called “Mother Hen and Friendly Chicks”. Continue reading
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
BlueBird Gets SpyLite UAS Latin American Order
BlueBird has won a contract to supply its SpyLite mini unmanned aircraft system to a Latin American country, where the equipment will be used mainly for “civil surveillance” tasks. Continue reading
UAS Monitor Tracking Tags on Wild Life
Engineers at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, last week introduced a new generation of tracking tags that can be interrogated from the air by UAS. On sensing a weak signal from one postage-stamp-sized tag fixed to an animal, a UAS can fly towards the creature on autopilot and retrieve the tag’s data. Continue reading
Conservation UAS over Barro Colorado Island, Panama
Lian Pin Koh (ConservationDrones.org) and Brenden Duffy (FlightRiot.com) went on a trip to Barro Colorado Island, Panama, upon the invitation of Dr. Helene Muller-Landau from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Continue reading
First Flight for Radiation Detector UAS at Bristol University
A flying radiation detector that could be used to help with nuclear decommissioning and clean-up at sites such as Fukushima and Sellafield was recently tested in a specially designed experimental area at the National Physical Laboratory, the only one of its kind in the UK.
Project RISER (remote intelligent survey equipment for radiation), a collaboration between the University of Bristol, Blue Bear Systems Research (BBSR), Createc, demonstrated at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and funded by the UK’s Technology Strategy Board, has been focused on the development and demonstration of a unmanned air system (UAS) based radiation survey system that could potentially be used in hazardous environments. Continue reading
DJI Phantom Crashes into Canadian Lake
Ontario Tourism, busy trying to capture the Limberlost Forest and Wildlife Reserve from the air, had a small UAS go down last weekend. It’s a pretty view, and it appears to be getting great shoots, until something goes horribly wrong. Continue reading
UPG Australia Offers One-Week UAS Flight School
Australian geospatial technology provider, Ultimate Positioning Group (UPG), recently announced a new one-week training course for UAS owners to gain their remote pilot certification – a first on the Australian market, they claim. Continue reading
UAS Help California Vineyard Plan Irrigation
DRNK Wines, a vineyard located in Sebastolpol, California, recently had 3D Robotics fly a UAS over its fields. 3D Robotics specializes in piloting systems for smaller UAS, and the vineyard used 3D Robotics’s route-plotting software for mapping out the aircraft’s precise path. Continue reading