Tag: researchers
Fire-Management Drone Under Development by University Researchers
A new drone under development at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) could change the way wildfires are fought, as well as encourage the use...
Test Site Researchers Expand Flights to Public Airport
Unmanned aircraft system researchers associated with the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership (MAAP) of Virginia Tech and Rutgers University recently tested new technology designed to prevent...
Alaska Researchers Use UAVs to Study Sea Otters
Researchers often find that watching marine life into order to gather data about behavior and abundance can be tedious and time-consuming, but recent studies...
Bigfoot Researchers Look into Using Drones
Cryptozoologists - those who study cryptids, creatures such as Bigfoot and Yeti - are looking into using unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in their work....
Researchers to Study Amazon Rainforest with UAV
The U.K.'s University of Exeter is leading an international project that will use unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing to investigate the Amazon rainforest....
Researchers Create Autonomous sUAS for Naval Fire-Fighting
A team from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute and Sensible Machines has developed a small unmanned aerial system designed for assisting fire-fighting inside navy...
Hawaii Researchers Map Active Lava Flow for Emergency Responders
Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Hilo (UH Hilo) have used an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to successfully map the active flow front...
Killer-Whale Researchers Find Value in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Researchers from the U.S. and Canada have come together to use an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a non-invasive, innovative way to study the...
MIT, Cornell Researchers Invent UAS That Sets Light for Photographers
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Cornell University have created light-equipped unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to help photographers avoid the often...
British Researchers Develop 3D-Printed UAV
U.K. engineers at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre at the University of Sheffield have successfully printed a 1.5-meter-wide prototype unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for...