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Sgt. Tim Ehrenkaufer of the Daytona Beach Police Department recommended Embry-Riddle professors for his or her assist in assessing the harm from Hurricane Irma and he appears ahead to working with the college and college students sooner or later. “We were able to get a good overall perspective of areas …

Drones are superior – once they’re in the fitting place on the proper time. However, rogue drones – piloted by hostile or negligent customers – can endanger lives when flying in unauthorized airspace. A main instance is the current collision of an errant drone with an Army UA60 helicopter over …

Riaan Meyer is used to engaged on massive scale renewable vitality tasks.  “The typical solar plant in Africa is just much bigger than it is in other countries,” says Meyer.  “And solar is booming on both ends – plants and residential. ”  Meyer’s firm GeoSUN is out in the sector …

Commentary DJI, the highest gun in drone know-how, issued the next launch this previous week finish that asserts a proposal for managing drone visitors. UTM (Unmanned Traffic Management) is  a gnarly situation for the UAV trade. There are a lot of initiatives and methods underway. Airmap is one comany that …

Africa is floor zero for using humanitarian drones and medical drone supply – and with revolutionary packages and the event of a humanitarian drone hall, UNICEF’s drone tasks in Malawi have change into a mannequin for the remainder of the world. Matthias Boyen of UNICEF explains that drones resolve crucial …

Neuroscientist Dr. Denise Bjorkman is enthusiastic about her work.  She talks quick and thinks quick – and started her speak at the Drones Africa Summit this morning by paraphrasing US Representative Pat Schroeder: “I have brains and a uterus, and I’m using them both.” Performing analysis with the Drone Portal …

Mining is a significant business in Africa – and drone firms have established themselves there to develop with the business. Service supplier Rocketmine, a division of French firm Delta Drone,  was the primary licensed business drone operator in South Africa and Ghana and flies the most important fleet of drones …

Taking a drone abroad is sophisticated at the most effective of occasions. Choosing the correct gear to take, packing your gear up securely and getting it by way of airport safety are all complications that pilots flying overseas need to face. And that’s earlier than you’ve even landed in your …

A federal court docket has grounded 4 elements of a 2016 drone ordinance in a Massachusetts city after a pitched authorized battle which will set priority in future UAV case legislation. Local drone operator Michael Singer filed the lawsuit after the city of Newton handed an ordinance regulating drone use …

Flying drone and inexperienced wheat area Land O’Lakes, Inc. has introduced finalists for the Land O’Lakes Prize: Drone Challenge, a crowdsourced competitors launched in February 2017 to assist floor priceless, user-friendly drone options that may assist farmers make higher choices for their crops as they work to provide extra meals …