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Grand Sky and Harris Partner to Create UAS BVLOS Super Corridor
April 24, 2019Grand Sky Business and Aviation Park and Harris Corp. have joined forces to enable the country’s first and largest unmanned aerial system (UAS) airspace to support beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS)...
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Kongsberg Geospatial Releases IRIS UxS 2.0, Selected as AUVSI Award Finalist
April 24, 2019Kongsberg Geospatial, an Ottawa-based geospatial technology company announced the release of IRIS UxS 2.0, an updated and enhanced version of their Fleet Control Station and Airspace Management System. IRIS UxS provides drone...
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Low-Cost Autonomous Rubber Dinghy for Mapping and Monitoring Coral Reefs
April 24, 2019Researchers are now exploring the use of recent advances in open source Global Positioning System (GPS)-guided drone technology to design and test a low-cost and transportable small unmanned surface vehicle (sUSV). In...
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Drones Used to Map Antarctic Penguins
April 24, 2019A team of researchers undertook an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) survey with the aim of ascertaining the suitability of the use of small and lightweight fixed-wing electric engine powered UAVs for mapping...
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NASA Tests Tiny Drones to Investigate Weather
April 24, 2019Swarms of puny autonomous airborne drones may sound like a scene appropriate for a sci-fi movie-but it is now a reality as per a video of a test flight shared by NASA recently....