By Chris Anderson Congrats to APM:Plane user Charles Devaney, who just shared the Drone Social Innovation Award! From Robohub: The first winners of the inaugural “Drone Social Innovation Award” are a landmine detection project and a project providing aid to disaster victims in the Philippines. The two drone projects were selected from dozens of applicants and will split the […]
Archives for September 2014
More drones, more jobs for Northern Nevada
Brush up on your video-game skills. Drone jobs are coming to Reno. “Our society has built a ready-made workforce with video games,” said Don Cunningham, business operations manager for the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems. “It’s the same types of skills: hand-eye coordination and using buttons and levers to make something do something. I know […]
Drones may provide big lift to agriculture when FAA allows their use Agricultural drone
By CHAD GARLAND When Steve Morris began building unmanned aerial systems in the late 1990s, he envisioned flying them over fields and collecting data that would be useful to farmers. But after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, drones became largely associated with military strikes and surveillance operations. Morris said the technology became the subject […]
FAA gives permission for drone to join search for woman who vanished in Plano
By Wendy Hundley Texas EquuSearch has gotten permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to start using a drone to assist in the search for a missing Fort Worth woman. Use of the unmanned aircraft can start at 8 a.m. Thursday, said Tim Miller, founder and director of the Houston-based search-and-recovery team. The group joined the search […]
Drone Beat: Search and Rescue UAVs, Amazon’s Online Store and More
BY LORENZO FRANCESCHI-BICCHIERAISEP 15, 2014 The U.S. government uses them to bomb alleged terrorists in far-away places. Tech companies such as Amazon, Google and Facebook are all toying with the idea of using them, and now they’re a photographer’s secret weapon. Drones are a big part of our lives, whether we see them or not. […]
City of Cape Town plan to acquire drones
September 11, 2014 Daneel Knoetze “Aeryon Scout In Flight” by Dkroetsch – Own work. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. NEWS Shortly after referring to its CCTV system as “Big Brother” and expressing support for public video surveillance, the City of Cape Town has revealed that it is in the “planning phase” of a […]
Drones appear on Jackson City Council’s radar
Dustin Barnes, The Clarion-Ledger 3:52 p.m. CDT September 9, 2014 Drones flying around Jackson – or at least the idea of them – have caught the attention of the City Council who is now pondering how to get ahead of the supposed inevitable occurrence. A proposed ordinance, brought up by Ward 3 Councilwoman Larita Cooper-Stokes, […]
RCMP use drone to find family lost in the woods
HALIFAX – RCMP say a drone was used to help locate a family that got lost in the woods. On Saturday at 4:30 p.m., two adults and their 17-month-old child entered the woods off the Highway 107 extension. The Dartmouth family got lost and called police around 8:30 p.m. Sgt. Linda Gray with Halifax District RCMP […]
Was The Drone Flight Over A University Of Texas Football Game Illegal?
The University of Texas Police are investigating an unauthorized drone flight by a UT student who flew his drone over Darrell K. Royal – Texas Memorial Stadium. The flight took place during the home opener for the Texas Longhorns football team. The flight is the type of seemingly harmless, yet actually irresponsible behavior that irks […]