EASA - Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 mandates the Agency to regulate Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and in particular Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), when used for civil applications and with an operating mass of 150 Kg or more. Experimental or amateur build RPAS, military and non-military governmental RPAS flights, civil RPAS below 150 Kg as well as model aircraft are regulated by individual Member States of the European Union.
Toys, even if capable of flying but not equipped with internal combustion engine, are subject to Directive 2009/48/EC . Agency is supporting the initiative of the European Commission to develop a ‘roadmap’ covering the development and integration into non-segregated airspace of civil RPAS in the medium and long term. The roadmap is articulated in three pillars: research and development; safety regulation and technical standardisation; and complementary measures including privacy and data protection, insurance and liability.
RMT.0229, RMT.0230 and RMT.0235. Congress Passes Bill That Opens US Skies To Unmanned Drones. Drones for “urban warfare” In November 2010, a police lieutenant from Parma, Ohio, asked Vanguard Defense Industries if the Texas-based drone manufacturer could mount a “grenade launcher and/or 12-gauge shotgun” on its ShadowHawk drone for U.S. law enforcement agencies. The answer was yes. Last month, police officers from 10 public safety departments around the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area gathered at an airfield in southern Maryland to view a demonstration of a camera-equipped aerial drone — first developed for military use — that flies at speeds up to 20 knots or hovers for as long as an hour. In short, the business of marketing drones to law enforcement is booming. Now that Congress has ordered the Federal Aviation Administration to open up U.S. airspace to unmanned vehicles, the aerial surveillance technology first developed in the battle space of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan is fueling a burgeoning market in North America.
Puma AE (All Environment) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) The Puma AE (All Environment) is a small unmanned aircraft system (UAS) manufactured by AeroVironment. The UAS can be deployed in land-based and maritime operations. The Puma AE is capable of conducting intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and target acquisition (ISRT), battle damage assessment, maritime patrol, search and rescue and drug interdiction missions over water or land. Orders and deliveries of AeroVironment's UAS "The UAS can be deployed in land-based and maritime operations.
" In August 2010, AeroVironment was awarded a $35.3m contract by the US Department of Defence to deliver digital the Puma AE UAS, associated spares and training services. In August 2011, the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) placed a $65.5m contract with AeroVironment to deliver new digital Puma AE systems and initial spare packages. Puma All Environment development The Puma UAS was selected by the USSOCOM in 2008 for its All Environment Capable Variant (AECV) programme. Northrop Grumman Bat UAV. The Bat, formerly known as the KillerBee, is a low altitude and long endurance unmanned air vehicle (UAV) system. It was designed and developed jointly by Northrop Grumman and Swift Engineering to meet the requirements of the US Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy and the Department of Homeland Security. The Bat can perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) operations over a large area. Its huge capacity provides space for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) payloads and systems.
The Bat aircraft, launched from an AAI Shadow unmanned aerial system (UAS) launcher, does not require a runway and can be retrieved through nets. The UAV completed its maiden flight on 25 February 2010. Bat UAV variants The Bat has two variants – Bat-10 and Bat-12. Bat unmanned air vehicle design "The Bat can undertake surveillance and reconnaissance operations flying at a maximum speed of 201km/h. " Bat UAV development Bat aircraft navigation Electro-optic, infrared sensors Bat UAV radars.
Rheinmetall Shows New Hybrid UAV. Rheinmetall Airborne Systems revealed a new fixed-wing/VTOL hybrid UAV at the ILA Berlin airshow. Displayed in full-scale model form, the Tactical Utility TU-150 is a joint development with Swiss UAV, the company that produced the VTOL UAV now marketed by Saab as the Skeldar. The TU-150 is capable of hovering, can take off and land vertically, and can fly at 120 knots for up to eight hours (11 hours with auxiliary fuel tanks). The turbine engine, burning kerosene or heavy fuel, generates electrical propulsion for the rotors and pusher propeller without any gearing.
Multiple stabilized sensor balls can be carried, and “a wide range of mission scenarios” is being explored, according to Rheinmetall. The TU-150 weighs 300 pounds and has a wingspan of 26 feet, including the rotors. Rheinmetall also displayed its TR-50 lightweight low-cost reconnaissance UAV. Finally, Rheinmetall also displayed the optionally piloted version of the Diamond DA42 Opale MPP diesel twin. Free Project Management Software Reviews: Online & Open Source PM Sofware Tools. Our sweet little web based Aerial Imagery and UAV Flight Tracker with Ortho-Mosaic/GIS/KMZ Tile Builder. Beautiful Orthophotos! Hello fellow UAVers, dronemapper.com My UAV partner (Ross) and I have been working on a project that we'd love to get some feedback and additional ideas for.
Our intention is to allow free access to this web based tool and also a really cheap subscription model per month (think $4 range) to support hosting costs and the large amount of cpu processing power needed to generate maps. The free users will get all the same features but lower resolution imagery and possibly less accurate georeferenced tiles/tiffs/added watermarks to support the site. No ads. Our software and backend servers use tons of different open source packages to complete the process of georeferencing and building image mosaics. We are also trying to offer an "easy to use" UI to view each flight and all the associated data.
We've been having some problems getting our own flight systems up and running, ranging from a bad MUX on an APM 1 (thanks for fixing!) So, here we go -- some screenshots and comments: Blended Mosaic. Technology: Drones fly into nascent civilian market ripe with energy, environmental applications -- 01/25/2012 -- www.eenews.net.
Advertisement As a Russian tanker plowed through the frozen Bering Sea to deliver fuel to Nome, Alaska, earlier this month, it had an unlikely helper: a small drone that hovered overhead, sending images of the sea ice to researchers onshore who were plotting the vessel's path and planning oil spill contingencies. Drone technology, which revolutionized the way the U.S. military spies and fights, is now opening vast new opportunities for environmental researchers and the energy industry. And the Arctic -- with its brutal temperatures and vast, unpopulated spaces making manned flight difficult and dangerous -- is ground zero for those efforts.
Greg Walker, the man behind the controls of the drone in Nome and manager of the University of Alaska's Unmanned Aircraft Program, has been at the center of many of the Arctic missions. "You learn pretty quickly how to keep your hands warm," he said during a phone interview last week. Drilling down on energy applications Spying on sea lions.
Nano Patents and Innovations: Military UAVs To Get Hands And Arms. The team, led by Dr. Paul Oh, a professor in Drexel’s College of Engineering and head of the Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics department, will examine the reaction forces and torques associated with applying robotic arms to UAVs as part of his work in the Drexel Autonomous Systems Laboratory. UAVs currently perform passive tasks such as gathering in-flight visual data and intelligence, tasks that are performed well above ground. Oh’s team is looking at how UAVs might interact with objects at or near ground level. The group’s research focuses on developing what the NSF calls “Mobile Manipulating UAVs” –with arms and hands capable of performing active near-ground tasks. Oh envisions a broad range of applications from infrastructure repair and disaster recovery to border inspection and agricultural handling.
“These types of aircraft will advance field service robotics for things like search and rescue and disaster mitigation,” Oh said. Tilting Tri-Rotor VTOL v.3.b unveiling. VerticopterTutorial Part 1. The UAV Payload and Subsystems Market 2012-2022 - Report - Defence - visiongain. Asia Pacific Satellite-based Earth Observation Market. The EO Market is poised for growth in the coming years with a larger number of players, advances in technology and a political environment that should improve with regards to data. In a nutshell, Earth Observation via satellite is supporting sustainable human activity on the local, regional and global scale. The range of capabilities offered by EO satellites and its acc has progressed rapidly in recent years. Asia is going to show a healthy growth in both the commercial data revenues and the EO VAS revenues side.
The commercial data revenues are expected to increase by more than three times in the next 10 years. This research service titled Asia Pacific Satellite-based Earth Observation Market provides an in-depth analysis of the market drivers and restraints, industry trends, and competitive environment in addition to the challenges and issues faced by market participants. Market Overview Competition from Established Markets Impairs Market Growth Market Sectors - Satellites - Technologies. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for Border Security – Global Market & Technologies Outlook – 2013-2021.
The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in border security missions around the world is expanding rapidly as nations apply lessons from NATO UAV operations to their border and national security needs. This expansion, which began with the US, Brazil and Israel, will create new markets and new business opportunities. That’s particularly true for integrated capabilities guided by an Operating Concept and turnkey packages that include equipment, training, operations and maintenance. Small nations are discovering this technology.
Smaller UAV types will especially benefit in these new markets where the established players have less influence and the more complex UAVs have less relevance. This new report is the only available research that examines, analyses and predicts the evolution of Border Security markets and the relevant UAV technologies in light of the whole global market. The report covers these technologies: The report identifies, analyzes and forecasts these topics, among others: Commercial Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS): Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018. WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study Commercial Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS): Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018. The 2012 study has 794 pages, 288 tables and figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve significant growth as the commercial unmanned aerial systems provide a way to automate surveillance of wide areas and implement strategic mapping and first responder support.
Small unit surveillance, urban monitoring, force protection, and aerial mapping are core uses for commercial unmanned aerial systems. Commercial UAS are designed to offer interchangeable payloads: Meteorological, air samplings, IR monitoring and emergency are the most common uses for helicopter UAS. Harbor & border control, area & event security, search & rescue, out-reach Surveillance, and damage assessment are applications for the technology.
Monitoring the security of vast pipelines or patrolling borders are applications. Research Methodology - 1.1. Why is Commercial UAV Information So Hard to Find? A quick look at Thirty Thousand Feet (Aviation directory) finds dozens of UAV manufacturers who claim their product has commercial capabilities. Yet there is almost no information available on the size of those markets, what capabilities will be most profitable or which UAVs are best suited. Even an article from 2005 makes the top ten on a Google search. That indicates very little activity. Why is there so little information and activity in markets that will eventually see perhaps ten times the money flowing there as will be realized in military UAV markets? Developed air space in the US and Europe is closed to commercial UAV operations.
Air space regulators are afraid of large, conventional UAVs like the Predator, Reaper and Global Hawk. Military UAVs were developed with conventional aircraft technology because that was available and familiar. Global Internet Access Served by Persistent UAVs Market Value by Region [$Billion] – Scenario I, II and III Snapshot – 2011-2016. Pipeline Security Assessment. Roper W. E., and Dutta S. (2005). Remote Sensing and GIS Applications for Pipeline Security Assessment. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual ESRI User Conference. The purpose of the study was to address a practical, reliable and economical means of monitoring pipeline assets using some of the remote sensing techniques (aerial and satellite) combined with GIS (Roper and Dutta 2005). The authors submitted five remote sensing techniques that could be applied to pipeline security assessment and these are LIDAR Systems (Terrain Analysis and Submerged Infrastructure Assessment), Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR), Unmanned Airborne Vehicles and Integrated Satellite Based Detection System for Pipeline Monitoring.
The authors' purpose to a large extent agreed with the challenges and/or problems associated with the application of geospatial technologies. The authors' paper is structured. References James P. Hartdraft, R. (1998). Roper W. Oil leakage article conclusion. Conclusion The use of Unmanned Aircraft, with an on-board thermal imaging camera, to map the ground temperature would be a particularly energy and cost effective way in which this task could be routinely performed, with minimal atmospheric pollution: the TAM 5 would have used only 1.33 Kg of fuel to fly the BTC pipeline no pilots are needed and the takeoff and landing can be automated 16 planes would be needed to have a spare at each pumping station automated data analysis could take place anywhere in the world Limitations and extensions to this suggestion Time varying thermal properties of the soil around the pipeline would make it far more difficult to make any meaningful interpretation.
Such variations are: Rainfall increasing the thermal conductivity and heat capacity of the soil. Growth / death of vegetation, changing the emissivity of the land surface. The effect of rain might be interesting. Detecting oil leakage into the sea through the use of Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) Using UAVs to detect oil and gas leakage from pipelines. A suggested way to detect oil leakage Use a small Unmanned Aircraft (UA), on which is mounted a small thermal imagingcamera, to fly autonomously along the pipeline, just after sunset, to record the thermal images of the ground, from which one can deduce the thermal heat capacity of the ground, around the pipeline.
Just after sunset, there will be a drop in temperature, just as there will be an increase after sunrise, and one can interpret the thermal images, to estimate the heat capacity of the ground. If these images are taken once a day, one should be able to detect leakage from any of the 60,000 pipeline joints (according to the Sunday Times article), as a change in heat capacity of the ground, in the vicinity of the leaking joint. In fact, one should have a time dependent view of the changes. Features Route of the BTC pipeline through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey The first weld… What's involved Issues one would need to address are as follows: UAVs aid in exploration, production. Airborne - Visual Pipeline Inspection Services. Airborne - Oil & Gas Industry Aviation Services. IED’s, Mines, Route Clearance and Talisman | Think Defence. Home :: Fugro Airborne Surveys. Your eye in the sky. Scout Micro UAV Helps Libyan Rebels in March to Tripoli.
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