Any MAVinci customer will be able to upload Images into Icaros’ server for Orthophoto and DTM extraction, directly from MAVinci desktop application, creating easy integration and seamless workflow between the two platforms. MAVinci is now offering its UAV’s customers easy integration of all major processing SW companies and allows their UAV customers to choose the process provider individually. “Icaros...
The U.S. Geological Survey, Boise State University and the University of Idaho are partnering to use UAS technology to gather data on the landscape habitat of pygmy rabbits. Pygmy rabbits dig extensive burrow systems, which are also used by other animals. Loss of habitat is a direct threat to this species , which depends on big sagebrush, particularly mature...
By KATHLEEN KRELLER Idaho Statesman Idaho Power Co. fish biologist Phil Groves doesn’t want to see any more of his colleagues injured or killed in helicopter crashes while doing research. So he has embraced technology typically used by the military and hobbyists: drone aircraft. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game frequently surveys salmon nests in streams and tributaries....
As ever the Guardian has it pegged pretty much right, it is the beginning of hysteria. The signing of HR 658 has started the ball rolling in America and all of a sudden sUAS have been invented. Most pundits ignore that several countries have had legal use of small systems for several years and they have not collapsed under...
The New York Times seems pretty anti sUAS use, almost daily reports of worries. We think they are operating in the manufacturers twilight zone. They believe the capability hype. Perhaps they ought to be flying a couple of their own before to get a handle on how things really work. What people say is possible and what is actually possible are...
Australian-owned AEROmetrex, leader in digital aerial data acquisition and processing, and New-Zealand company Hawkeye UAV, pioneer in commercial Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operations have signed a distributor agreement for AEROmetrex to market Hawkeye-UAV technology and imagery throughout Australia. The range of activities to be undertaken by AEROmetrex includes sales of the RQ-84Z AreoHawk UAV system as well as technical...
Advanced Defense Technologies recently declared it has entered into a joint venture agreement with North Carolina-based Halberd Corporation to develop advanced drones and UAVs. The collaboration accentuates on the short and long range drones and UAVs for defense and commercial markets. An industry research firm, Teal Group stated that the global expenditure on drones is estimated to increase two-fold...
2011 Unmanned Aircraft Systems’ Remote Sensing Technology Used Against Bark Beetles in National Forests Brett Whalin This paper goes over the growing problem of bark beetles destroying North America’s forests. It first goes over the life of the beetles and the current methods of fighting them, in order to give the reader ideas on how they can be...
Ben Anderson Alaska Dispatch Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, often referred to as “drones,” don’t get a lot of good press. Usually, when a drone makes the news, it’s just completed an airstrike somewhere across the world, likely in the Middle East, taking out a structure thought to contain al Qaeda militants. But there’s a softer, friendlier side to UAVs – they’re...
The rules for the UAV Challenge Airborne Delivery Challenge 2012 for high schools have been released. New to this year’s high school version of the main Outback Challenge is the so called “search phase”, an optional flying component. Teams will search an area that contains various symbols left by Outback Joe and the team that can read the most...
