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Brican launches unmanned aerial vehicle
A Brampton-based flight system developer has unveiled a new Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that will be used to remotely track and gather data on wildlife. The TD100 series was the showpiece item for Brican Flight Systems Inc, located at 54 Van Kirk Dr., during the Ontario Centres of Excellence's ...
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UAVs help utilities bring back the power
Researchers at New Mexico State University (NMSU; Las Cruces, NM, USA) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI; Palo Alto, CA, USA) have concluded that unmanned aircraft can be safely and effectively used to assess power grid damage following a storm or natural disaster.
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Trimble Navigation acquires unmanned aerial vehicles
Trimble Navigation (Sunnyvale,CA, USA) has acquired privately-held Gatewing (Gent, Belgium), a provider of lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and software for photogrammetry and terrain mapping applications.
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UPES students apply for patent on aerial pipeline surveillance vehicle
Dehradun, April 13 -- Two budding engineering students of UPES, Swapna Dilip Rasal of BTech (Aerospace Engineering) and Gane Ravi Kumar of Integrated BTech (Applied Petroleum Engineering) have conceptualised an idea by which a solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle could be deployed for surveillance
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GPS camera combo helps UAVs find a place to land
Queensland University of Technology (QUT; Brisbane, Australia) researchers are developing a system that should enable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to be deployed more widely.
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Modular imaging system developed for flight
Engineers at MaxVision (Madison, AL, USA) and Visual Intelligence (Houston, TX, USA) have teamed to create an airborne digital sensing and image processing system for use in aerial surveillance on manned and unmanned air vehicles.
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Small UAV uses hyperspectral imager
Headwall Photonics' (Fitchburg, MA, USA) Micro-Hyperspec imaging sensor is being successfully deployed onboard small commercial unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to help agriculturalists monitor vegetation over wide areas.
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FLIR thermal camera withstands shocks up to 800 Gs
FLIR's compact Quark thermal camera core design is based on wafer-level packaging of the microbolometer sensor.
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Navitar converter lenses improve distance viewing and increase magnification
Navitar's line of converter lenses offers 0.5, 1.5, and 2X magnification to support block cameras, which are often used for security, defense, and surveillance applications that require high-quality converter lenses either to improve long-distance viewing or increase magnification.
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Sensors Unlimited IR camera is mil-hardened for unmanned aerial systems
The GA-1280J-15A 1.3-Mpixel, InGaAs video camera from Sensors Unlimited - Goodrich ISR Systems is military-hardened and, at less than 4.3 in. 3 , fits onboard most unmanned aerial vehicle or ground vehicle systems, and handheld imagers and mobile surveillance systems.