Canyon County, Idaho, is one of the first places in the USA to get FAA approval to use an unmanned surveillance aircraft for emergency operations. Continue reading
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
Embry-Riddle UAS Targets Whale Poachers in Pacific
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students and professors have designed an unmanned aircraft that will help keep poachers from killing sharks and whales near Ecuador. Continue reading
Schiebel Camcopter Goes Hollywood
Brain Farm Digital Cinema, Snaproll Media, and Schiebel have announced that the CAMCOPTER S-100 achieved the first ever UAS first flight with the CINEFLEX camera. Continue reading
Kansas State University UAS to Monitor Crops
The Kansas State University Department of Agronomy recently purchased a new MAJA Unmanned Aircraft System, with the intent of installing imaging systems on it for studying plant productivity, monitoring plant growth stages, assessing plant health, and mapping plant composition for characterizing changes in distribution of invasive and toxic plant species. Continue reading
AggieAir Flying Circus Monitors Wetlands, Construction and Wildlife
The AggieAir Flying Circus is a service center at the Utah Water Research Laboratory that provides high resolution, multispectral aerial imagery using a small, unmanned aircraft system called AggieAir. Continue reading
Oregon Sheriffs Eye UAS
The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to soon green light the use of small unmanned aircraft by emergency services. Continue reading
Silicon Valley Develops Drone Subculture
Techies in Silicon Valley are sending the three-to-six foot wide unmanned aircraft, guided by computers, radios and soon cell-phones, to survey fields, capture action shots from the air or follow them around to snap photos at optimal angles. Continue reading
Hawaii Harbour’s Surveillance UAS Still Grounded
The State of Hawaii purchased an unmanned surveillance aircraft last year to patrol the skies over Honolulu Harbour but the aircraft can’t be flown because of heavy air traffic in the area. Continue reading