The Police Service of Northern Ireland is considering the use of mini UAS to combat crime and the dissident republican threat.
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
Arlington Police to Purchase Two Unmanned Helicopters
At the most recent City Council meeting, officials gave Arlington Police Department permission to use of about $202,000 in Department of Homeland Security grant money to buy two small unmanned aircraft. Continue reading
UAS Monitors Volcano Volatility in Costa Rica
Scientists from the University of Costa Rica have developed a low-cost unmanned aircraft to monitor steam emissions and other atmospheric markers at Costa Rica’s Aranel Volcano. Continue reading
Nano UAS from the UK
BCB International‘s SQ-4 weighs only 2.9 ozs. (82 grams), flies up to 400 feet in the air, fits in the palm of a hand, contains two video cameras, can hover in place and perch on ledges, and automatically returns “home” when its battery runs low. Continue reading
Architects Use UAS to Inspect Historic Bridge in Scotland
Architects have been using a remote-controlled aircraft to survey the historic Stirling Bridge in Scotland. Continue reading
Spanish Ecologists Count Birds with DIY Unmanned Aircraft
A remote colony of birds kept flying away before anyone could count them, so a team of ecologists built a do-it-yourself unmanned aircraft to spy on them from above. Continue reading
Iranian Students Build $15,000 UAS
Head of the Khomeini-Shahr branch of the Islamic Azad University, Khalifeh Soltani, announced on Monday that a group of students have built an unmanned aircraft which specializes in rescue and relief operations.
Shackleton Energy Company to Mine the Moon for Water with Manned and Unmanned Systems
The process of establishing the world’s first operational lunar base and propellant depot business in space is underway as the Shackelton Energy Company launches its initial fund raising campaign. This comes in the footsteps of recent amazing new discoveries of huge deposits of propellant-feedstock ice on the moon by NASA and other international space programmes. Continue reading