The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will use its two small unmanned Manta aircraft to sniff for black carbon, an agent formed through the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, biofuel, and biomass, in the Arctic.
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
Gatewing X100 Roadshow in Australia in May
Position Partners, the Australian Distributor of the Gatewing X100 will be showcasing the system at Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Hunter Valley from 23rd May to 3rd June. Here is the pitch:
UK Police Force Sells Unused UAS
Essex Police Force in the UK invested £20,000 in a UAS, but has put the aircraft up for sale without it ever being used.
Taiwan’s First Local UAS
Gang Yu Corp introduced the AI Rider, a system based on a six-rotor unmanned aircraft weighing about 1,450 grammes, during Secutech, an international security exhibition held in Taipei last week.
‘Long Tail’ Author and 24 Year Old behind DIY Drones
Chris Anderson is founder of DIY Drones, the largest amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicle community on the web with 15,000 members, and of 3D Robotics, the commercial arm that serves the DIY Drones online store – “The Amateur UAV Superstore”. Chris is also editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, and wrote The Long Tail, in 2006. Business Insider published this 4-minute interview with Chris about his DIY Drones activities:
New Fixed Wing Platform from MAVinci, Germany
MAVinci, based in Leimen near Heidelberg, Germany, has announced the introduction of SIRIUS II – a fully integrated orthofoto UAS. The system obtains aerial images and calculates orthofotos and three dimensional elevation models out of the image data.
DIY Drones
Type in ‘drones’ on Google, and it won’t be long before you come across DIY Drones, the largest amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicle community on the web with 15,000 members, and the DIY Drones online store – “The Amateur UAV Superstore”.
Fukushima – 2 New Videos – Detail Inside Reactor Building
Over the weekend, Japanese energy company TEPCO released new footage taken by unmanned helicopters. The first clip is mainly overhead views with some scary vapours being emitted at one stage:
The second goes into one of the buildings and shows the total devastation inside one of the reactor buildings: