Monthly Archives: February 2014

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  PopSci: Salvadoran Newspaper Sends UAS To Cover Presidential Election

  Posted on February 7, 2014 by auvsiadmin in News, STEM Education and Learning.

  PopSci: Salvadoran Newspaper Sends UAS To Cover Presidential Election As Salvadorans lined up to vote for a new president this Sunday, Salvadoran newspaper La Prensa Gráfica sent a drone out to record video of them from above. This is the first time anyone in El Salvador has used a drone for journalism, La Prensa Gráfica [...]

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  WWF, Namibia Wrap Up Year of Antipoaching Technology Testing

  Posted on February 4, 2014 by auvsiadmin in Environmental Protection, News.

  AUVSI: WWF, Namibia Wrap Up Year of Antipoaching Technology Testing After a year of field-testing, the World Wildlife Fund announced that unmanned aircraft and related systems can be effective in deterring poaching in Africa. The WWF worked with the Namibian Ministry of Environment and Tourism on a project funded by the Google Global Impact Award, [...]

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  Fire Engineering: Connecticut Fire Department Employs UAS at Quarry Fire

  Posted on February 4, 2014 by auvsiadmin in Enhancing Public Safety, News.

  Connecticut Fire Department Employs UAS at Quarry Fire     The Branford (CT) Fire Department made use of a drone for the first time in the department’s history during a fire at the J& J Blasting Company in Stony Creek Quarry last week. Firefighters called an evacuation based on the drones finding, causing the temporary [...]

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• HuffPo: UAS Captures Unbelievable Video, Adds Entirely New Dimension To Whale Watching

  Posted on February 4, 2014 by auvsiadmin in Environmental Protection, News.

  UAS Captures Unbelievable Video, Adds Entirely New Dimension To Whale Watching     Fin whales — the second-largest whale species and also one of the most elusive — are longer than the average school bus. Given their size and deep-diving behavior, encountering one of these behemoths in the wild is quite the treat for any [...]

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