A year and a half ago, Miami-Dade Police Department received two Honeywell T-Hawks as part of a Department of Justice grant. It was the first large metro force in the nation to get these metallic eyes in the sky, and hoped to use them as support during hostage situations and police standoffs. Continue reading
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
Sea Shepherd UAS Captures Footage of Sealers in Namibia
At the crack of dawn the O.R.C.A Force successfully launched their unmanned aircraft to capture footage of the sealers at Cape Cross, Namibia. The images captured from the video stream shows the area of the seal reserve, the sealers stepping out of their vehicles and the full truck leaving the Cape Cross area to drive off to the seal processing factory. Continue reading
UAS Mapping Underground Faults and Fractures in Surprise Valley
From September 1-13, a team of scientists and engineers are collecting magnetic data using ground surveys and a UAS, to map the geophysics below the surface of Surprise Valley, a quiet rural community of about 1,000, set amidst a vast high desert landscape dotted with hot springs and dry lakebeds in the northeastern corner of California. Continue reading
UAS to Help Fight Bushfires in Queensland Australia
With much of Australia looking like reverting to a dry bushfire-prone weather pattern avionics engineers at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) are pulling out all stops to develop the technology to enable remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) to become airborne. Continue reading
Cloud Seeding by UAS Could Reduce Hurricane Intensity
Scientists propose using UAS to cloud seed in an effort to reduce the intensity of a hurricane. Continue reading
China to Use Unmanned Aircraft for Coastal Environment Monitoring
China plans to launch unmanned aircraft in 11 maritime provinces to survey weather patterns and environmental conditions around its coastal waters, according to the State Oceanic Administration, Legal Daily reported. Continue reading
TV News Broadcasters Study UAS for Aerial News Photography
TV news-gathering gadgetry doesn’t get any sexier than the Camcopter S-100, a military-grade unmanned aircraft manufactured by the Austrian Schiebel Corp. Continue reading
Altavian Gets 5-year Support Contract from US Army
Altavian announced that it has received a five-year contract from the US Army Corps of Engineers to maintain and support its unmanned aircraft used for surveys and inspections in Florida and Puerto Rico. Continue reading