Not exact matches
Drones — or unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs),
in the industry's preferred parlance — are inspecting smoke stacks and monitoring seal populations, and will soon explore the insides of active volcanoes.
According to Gabriel's father, Fernando, his son became interested
in UAVs, or unmanned
aerial vehicles, a few months ago after seeing YouTube postings of personal
drone footage — everything from
drones flying through fireworks displays and capturing
aerial views of killer whales
in British Columbia's Johnson Strait to police activity on the streets of California and kids surfing monster waves
in Newport Beach.
There are even realtors interested
in using
drones for
aerial photography, which is currently prohibited by the FAA, and a sailing coach interested
in applying
drones to maritime sport.
And analysts said New Delhi's 2017 request for U.S.
aerial drones was aimed at monitoring Chinese activity
in the ocean.
Unmanned
aerial vehicles have become a fixture on the battlefield
in Syria, as both the US, Syria, Iran, and Russia all have operated weaponized and unarmed surveillance
drones there.
The increase
in drone incidents makes sense given the increasing popularity of the unmanned
aerial vehicles.
In what's being characterized as the closest encounter yet between an unmanned
aerial vehicle and a civilian aircraft, an Air France plane last month came within 16 feet of colliding with a
drone.
The company is expanding its role
in the logistics industry with
drone technology that could ultimately see the unmanned
aerial vehicles deliver products to customer homes.
The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration, which oversee
drones in the national airspace, released rules
in Aug. 2016 for how businesses can use
drones for tasks like
aerial photography or to monitor farms.
No tool of war has come further
in the last 25 years than
drones, or unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs).
«The $ 5 fee to cover administrative costs may prevent users from registering for both convenience and cost, especially
in the case of small toy - like UAVs [unmanned
aerial vehicle],» said a statement from the Small UAV Coalition, a
drone advocacy group that includes Amazon (AMZN), Google (GOOG), and
drone manufacture DJI.
They're buzzing overhead
in yards all over Silicon Valley, but the most impactful applications of unmanned
aerial vehicles — a.k.a.
drones — are for business.
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architect and researcher Ammar Mirjan explains how
drones could be programmed to construct buildings
in the first of two movies about the use of unmanned
aerial vehicles
in architecture.
SkyRanger
drones provided critical
aerial intelligence for first responders
in the wake of Hurricane Irma and other natural disasters.
The companies are pushing lawmakers to allow for experimental testing of
drone delivery
in sparsely populated areas and more research and development of delivery plans, according to Michael E. Drobac, a leader of Akin Gump's unmanned
aerial vehicle lobbying practice, which represents Amazon.
Unlike the military
drones that are already operating
in Mali, the Thales
drones will be used to provide
aerial surveillance for civilian operations such as humanitarian convoys.
Initially, the development of unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAV) was an exclusively military affair; only
in recent times have civilian
drone developers started to appear on the scene.
In her work she focuses on the strategic implications of the increasing use of Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or «
drones «-RRB- by Western armed forces.
Here's a wild one, courtesy of Wired's Danger Room: what happens when an
aerial drone from Georgia (the one
in the Eastern Hemisphere) runs afoul of the Russion air force?
Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles (UAV)-- the correct term for
drones — have become one of the most covered topics
in Western national and international media
in recent years.
NASA to Advise
in Further Development of
Drone Corridor and Other Unmanned
Aerial Systems Projects
in New York State
In fact you can argue that this administration's done more against the Pakistani Taliban with the
Drones and UAV's (unmanned
aerial vehicle) that the president a year ago authorized to be used.
• Earlier this summer, the Legislature passed a ban on using camera - mounted
drones in county parks, saying the unmanned
aerial vehicles posed a threat to residents» privacy.
Parker Gyokeres, owner of Propellerheads
Aerial Photography, who operated the
drone at Maloney's wedding, and was paid by Maloney's videographer, acknowledged
in an interview Monday the «FAA has straight banned everyone from flying.»
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, has been leading research into how to manage an expected boom
in air traffic from the operation of low - altitude unmanned
aerial systems, or
drones, across the nation.
But the Federal Aviation Administration prohibits the commercial use of
drones like the miniature helicopter that gathered the breathtaking
aerial footage of Maloney's June 21 wedding to Randy Florke
in Cold Spring, N.Y.
NASA has been leading research into how to manage an expected boom
in air traffic from the operation of low - altitude unmanned
aerial systems, or
drones, across the nation.
AERIAL DRONE FOOTAGE OF ENERGETIC FELLING OF THE OLD KOSCIUSZKO BRIDGE STEEL TRUSS SPANS On Sunday, Governor Cuomo and hundreds of New Yorkers assembled to watch the energetic felling of the old steel truss spans of the Kosciuszko Bridge
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For example, the GoPro
drone can automatically follow you, orbit a scene, fly
in a line like a cable cam, and even take an
aerial selfie!
If you're interested
in aerial drone photography and want pro-level photos and videos, your photo
drone choice should be the new DJI Phantom 4.
In short, if you are serious about
drone flying and
aerial photography and videos, the DJI Phantom 4 Quad Copter offers future - proof features, plus the best flying experience you can currently buy.
Through this operational process, the Nsphere
drone can make agile movements
in ways that might not be attained by other
aerial vehicles.
Nsphere
drone can fly like a copter type
aerial vehicle
in the vertical flight mode, and like a fixed - wing type
aerial vehicle
in the horizontal flight mode.
As debate over the use of unmanned
aerial vehicles
in the U.S. rages on, a fashion designer introduces clothing that blocks
drone - mounted infrared cameras
But the word «clearly means a lot of things to a lot of different people,» according to Dean Jansen, co-director of the
Drones and
Aerial Robotics Conference (DARC), which took place
in October.
Commercial use is also illegal — last week real estate agents
in Los Angeles, California, were ordered to stop using helicopter
drones to shoot
aerial movies of properties they are selling.
But for this study the scientists employed relatively modest
drones — or unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAV)-- to survey the darkened ice belt
in unprecedented detail.
The system, called Hydra Fusion and developed by researchers at Lockheed Martin
in Canada, will make
drones better at
aerial surveillance.
One of the biggest advances
in recent years is the Coyote
drone, a 7 - pound unmanned
aerial vehicle packed with sensors and a GPS device.
I think our results demonstrate
aerial thermography's potential to transform how we explore archaeological landscapes
in many parts of the world,» says Jesse Casana, an associate professor of anthropology at Dartmouth, who has been using
drones in aerial thermography for five years
in his archaeological research.
This is a digital surface model of the vernal pool region of the Whetstone Savanna Preserve
in southern Oregon generated from
aerial images collected using a small
drone.
Flying robots (aka unmanned
aerial vehicles, or
drones) to check power lines or deliver emergency aid have become an important and controversial part of military capacity
in recent years.
Commercial use of unmanned
aerial vehicles
in U.S. airspace was banned by the Federal Aviation Administration
in 2007, although growing numbers of hobbyists have been toying with the use of
drones, particularly for
aerial photography.
Unmanned
aerial vehicles, or
drones, can collect detailed information
in real time at relatively low cost for ecological research.
Dennis Bowman, a crop sciences educator with U. of I. Extension, is using two
drones to take
aerial pictures of crops growing
in research plots on the farms.
RHex furthers the U.S. military's ongoing efforts to deploy
aerial drones and land robots to assist troops
in the field.
Researchers believe this technology — published online today
in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics — could be used
in aerial or submarine
drones to improve navigation, as well as extend the sensory range of current robotic systems, which is limited to vision, radar, and sonar.
A company specializing
in aerial filmography using radio - controlled planes wants to force the agency's hand on fines constraining for - profit
drone use
With up to 50 nations around the world developing military robots, says physicist Jürgen Altmann of Dortmund Technical University
in Germany, opposing
aerial drones could ultimately square off against each other.
Rise of the Machines Thousands of unmanned
aerial drones, tanks, and submarines have been developed and deployed by militaries
in up to 50 nations.