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...
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has established a training and certification facility preparing UAS operators and technicians to support Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). The UAS Academy leverages the extensive experience gained by IAI experts through more than 40 years of UAS design, development, operations and training of UAS operators and technicians. In addition to providing a variety of training services...
The UAS Global Exhibition and Conference intends to be the new leading European event for the ’Unmanned Aircraft System’ (UAS) market, bringing together academy and industry stakeholders from across these promising sectors as well as all other interested entities and persons involved in innovation and research related to UAS. It will also provide views from high level officials from...
Simlat was recently awarded a contract to provide UVision Global Aero Systems with a highly advanced simulator for training & testing, including built-in, external, and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) simulation, all customized to UVision’s cutting-edge unmanned aerial platforms. Herzliya, Israel, Feb 12, 2012 – Simlat announces a recently awarded contract for an advanced simulator for UVision. This multi-purpose system is intended...
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Army helicopter pilots will soon be able to train virtually anywhere, at any time, thanks to a new training device demonstrated last week at UAH. Team members with the AH-64D Apache Longbow Block III program gave a demonstration Thursday of the Apache Block III National Airspace trainer (AB3NAT). Designed to act as a “surrogate trainer” for...
A research team from Clarkson University is developing an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) called the Clarkson Research Aerial Vehicle for Experimental Needs (RAVEN) to gather wind turbulence data. The three member team consists of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering professors, Suresh Dhaniyala, Lin Tian and Pier Marzocca along with members from six companies and institutions in the Europe and US....
Author Jay Gundlach is no stranger to Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). He helped develop over 17 UAS at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and served as Vice President of Advanced Development for Insitu before joining Aurora Flight Sciences as Director of Conceptual Design. Dr. Gundlach has now completed his first textbook, titled “Designing Unmanned Aircraft Systems: A Comprehensive Approach,”...
With the FAA in the US trying to integrate Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Air Space (NAS), the question of how UAS pilots will be trained or get degrees, when this happens, is a question on almost everyone’s mind in the industry. The first college to have a full degree for UAS was the University of North...
HUNT VALLEY, Md., Dec 19, 2011 AAI Logistics & Technical Services, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. TXT +0.11% company, announced today that it has earned the highly selective Sweden Armed Forces Technical School maintenance training provider certification. It is the first unmanned aircraft system (UAS) training provider to have earned this designation, and only the sixth altogether; other...
MetaVR will exhibit its products and technology in Booth #1249 at the annual Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference and Trade Show (I/ITSEC), November 28 – December 1, 2011, at the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL, USA. MetaVR™ is the largest supplier of unmanned aerial system (UAS) commercial 3D visualization software for the US military with over 1,000...
