Pierce Aerospace, a pioneer in Remote ID technologies, announced that it has been selected by Metis Technology to deploy Remote ID sensors throughout the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area. Continue reading
Category Archives: Research
New System Designed to Protect Drones From Cyber Threats
Researchers at the University of Adelaide have begun developing what they describe as a world-first cybersecurity system aimed at protecting drones from increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. Continue reading
SOCOM wants ‘Acoustic Rainbow’ Tech for Silencing Drones
Acoustic rainbows may sound psychedelic, but the concept has nothing to do with hallucinations. By dispersing sound waves, noisy objects can potentially be made far less audible. That promise has drawn the interest of U.S. Special Operations Command, which is seeking Acoustic Rainbow Emitters (ARE) for drones under a Small Business Innovation Research solicitation that closed March 25. Continue reading
Autonomous and Efficient Large-Scale Snow Avalanche Monitoring with an Unmanned Aerial System
Avalanches occur in remote, hazardous terrain, making timely data collection difficult. Unmanned fixed-wing aerial vehicles offer a practical way to gather large-area imagery for mapping avalanche activity. Continue reading
Parallel Flight Technologies and Alpha Unmanned Systems Support US Navy on UAS Heavy-Fuel Research
Parallel Flight Technologies, Inc., a developer of next-generation unmanned aircraft systems, and Alpha Unmanned Systems, a European manufacturer of fuel-powered helicopter UAVs, have announced a collaboration to advance heavy-fuel propulsion for unmanned aviation in support of the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR). Continue reading
DIU to Fund ‘Unjammable’ Magnetic Navigation Tech
To counter increasingly pervasive jamming of GPS signals, the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is launching a programme to mature magnetic navigation, or “magnav,” systems. Continue reading
Drone Whale Breath Sampling Hints at Deadly Virus in Arctic
Drones have been used to successfully collect samples from the exhaled breath—or “blow”—from wild humpback, sperm and fin whales in northern Norway, hailing a new era of non-invasive health monitoring for these marine giants in Arctic regions. Continue reading
Airbus Research Spain Announces $3.8M Project Using UAS to Adapt Agriculture to Climate Change
Airbus Research has just announced a 3.2M€ (USD 3.8M) project to develop solutions based on UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) to make agriculture more efficient and adapted to climate change. Continue reading