After 17 elephants were killed by a speeding train in West Bengal, India, the nation's railways and environment ministries are considering deploying unmanned aircraft systems to help prevent such tragedies. After 17 elephants were killed by a speeding train in West Bengal, India, the nation's railways and environment ministries are considering deploying unmanned aircraft systems to help prevent such tragedies.
After 17 elephants were killed by a speeding train in West Bengal, India, the nation's railways and environment ministries are considering deploying unmanned aircraft systems to help prevent such tragedies.
Researchers say small unmanned aircraft equipped with fisheye-lensed cameras now can use insect-like visual navigation to stay on track.
According to the U.K.'s The Independent, unmanned Earth observation drones equipped with surveillance cameras may fly across London's skies during next year’s Olympic Games.
Interest is growing rapidly in the use of unmanned aircraft systems for precision agriculture, which potentially could become the largest application for this developing technology.
Stanford University researchers are hoping to gain new insights into climate change effects on important ecosystems: centuries-old living coral reefs that remain unmapped and unmeasured.
Archaeological sites that currently take years to map will be completed in minutes if unmanned aircraft tests under way in Peru go well.
Unprecedented property loss from wildfires in Colorado and the western United States underscores the importance of emerging multipurpose unmanned aircraft systems for rapid disturbance mapping. By Thomas Zajkowski, a remote sensing specialist with the U.S. Forest...
BINGEN, Washington - Insitu, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, assisted from the air in the firefight against the Camp Fire in Northern California, now deemed the deadliest, most destructive wildfire in California's history. "Our hearts go out to all...
In 2014, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas aims to support a burgeoning opportunity for Nevada’s job market by launching an unmanned aircraft system minor degree program.
