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As companies scramble to discover new uses for small unmanned aircraft, critics fear changes to laws will ignore privacy issues 
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Scientists are to scan the Amazon forest in Brazil to look for evidence of occupation by ancient civilisations. A drone will be sent up with a laser instrument to peer through the canopy for earthworks that were constructed thousands of years ago. The UK-led project is trying to determine how big these communities were, and to what degree they altered the landscape.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
LiDAR surveys are a classic instrument to stick on a UAV. In this case we can den use it to get insight into ancient land use in a very hard to see part of the world.
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Tough federal aviation rules and public backlash against drones have raised worries that the U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle industry will be left behind foreign competitors. Developers say the U.S. light drone industry is being overtaken by manufacturers in Israel and Australia.
Jonathan Fausto's insight:
Do we want UAV companies to develop their units elsewhere ? Again everything is about safety.
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Attention, campers. National parks are becoming "no drone" zones.
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You may have heard about the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) quietly declaring that this year's Super Bowl will be a "no drone zone." You may not have heard just how big that no drone zone will be. It's 60 miles wide. The no drone zone is larger than the city of Phoenix. Seems a little bit absurd, huh?
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By site editor Dan Chung: DJI are releasing a mandatory firmware upgrade that will prevent users from flying their Phantom series quadcopters in a 15.5 mile radius area of downtown Washington DC, t... Via planetMitch
Chris Wells's insight:
Manufacture to install software that prevents UAVs from being flown in "no fly zones". Specifically, within 15 mile radius of all airports and DC.
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Here is a glossary of terms for unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Talib Alhinai, a 22-year-old Emirati PhD student at Imperial College London is part of a team studying innovative, occasionally outlandish uses for drones, including one that can ‘3D-print’ while hovering in mid-air.
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Engineers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute designed a simple underwater camera and lighting system that is made mostly of hardware store materials. And all for $3,000. Most oceanographic camera systems cost $5,000 to $20,000 and require ships and cranes to carry the heavy equipment.
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The UAE is looking to highlight the humanitarian potential of the technology with its Drones For Good competition, with the inaugural first place winner set to be announced next week to take home ...
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Interesting idea for robotic replanting.
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Ryan Summers's insight:
For the 70th anniversary of Auschwitz BBC got some great footage using an UAV! With this aerial view you really get a sense for how massive this camp was.
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When a group of scientists drilled through 2,430 feet of ice in Antarctica to get to the water underneath, they only expected to find a few microbes here
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"It is the closest thing to flying like a bird," said Ostermann, a drone photography hobbyist. Here's how you can make breathtaking aerial videos too.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Umm...yeah. I wouldn't go promoting flying over roads or other such spots to the uninitiated nor very experienced flyers. This smacks of a lack of clear thinking.
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I had the distinct honor of both keynoting & judging the outstanding Drones for Good Challenge in Dubai last week (see my live reports). Teams from all around the world came to the UAE to compe...
Chase Tillman's insight:
Fixed wing UAVs will fly through national parks and circle camera traps one at a time downloading their data. This seems very efficient for any sort of data retrieval in which the sites are spread far apart. Maybe CSUCI could eventually adopt this method for long-term studies?
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A clever, bizarre-looking drone may one day save your butt after winning a million bucks in the UAE's Drones for Good competition
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As technology and industry continue to develop and the regulatory procedures begin to loosen, we'll see conservation drones used in even more different ways in the field of wild...
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BBC Newshour's Owen Bennett-Jones looks in to the use connotations of the word "drone" by the international military.
Andrew Brinkman's insight:
This is an interesting article looking at how we define "drones" and how language usage affects the perception of this new technology.
PIRatE Lab's comment,
January 30, 2015 9:59 PM
Excellent start to a conversation. Anyone have some new names?
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Highlights from an FAA report on close calls involving drones flying over America.
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Unmanned aircraft have proved their prowess against al Qaeda. Now they're poised to take off on the home front. Possible missions: patrolling borders, tracking perps, dusting crops. And maybe watching us all?
Alex Greene's insight:
An interesting article touching on the assimilation between drones and daily life.
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BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- North America's largest consumer drone manufacturer is on a...
Chase Tillman's insight:
This seems like it could be promising. We might be able to get a free UAV out of it.
This is the link to apply:
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Once virtually unknown for civilian use, drones are taking to the sky in increasing numbers, outpacing regulation in many countries Via InfoBlaze
Don Diallo Delavegas's curator insight,
September 14, 2015 12:57 PM
So true but that is what development is all about.
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A billion people in the world lack access to all-season roads. Could the structure of the internet provide a model for how to reach them? Andreas Raptopoulos of Matternet thinks so. He introduces a new type of transportation system that uses electric autonomous flying machines to deliver medicine, food, goods and supplies wherever they are needed.
Timothy Holcombe's insight:
An older TED talk but it is astoundingly applicable to the possibilities and examples of how UAVs can be responsibly used to provide beneficial services.
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Here it comes. These mounting fears are legitimate, fueled in part by the fact responsible users are not being allowed to fly but every member of the public with a credit card can.