CCROV is a commercial underwater drone with a difference – it’s fitted with a 4K camera. That means you can pilot it around the depths of the ocean, and live stream or capture the footage in stunningly high resolution.
This is an intriguing proposition, because the ocean still has many secrets to yield – according to the National Ocean Service in the US, we’ve explored less than 5% of the world’s waters, and what better way to see them than in 4K? |
ELF II-VR Drone is a mini selfie drone controlled by smartphone. It is ultra-portable, safe and easy to you.Multiple creative designs make ELF the most professional toy drone. With it, you can enjoy multi-rotor drone, virtual reality and VR fight experience. ELF releases your hands by using smartphone-based gesture control mode, with the G-sensor integrated. Carrying 720P HD Wi-Fi camera, ELF takes amazing selfies and allows social sharing in real time. VR mode lets you enjoy the 3D first-person view(FPV). ELF II is an easy, intelligent, selfie, mini, duarable drone which is our super recommend.
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Published on Jun 7, 2016Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ)
A Joint FEMA-OEM Catastrophic Earthquake and Tsunami Functional Exercise June 2016 The Exercise Scenario |
The International Drone Expo held in Los Angeles was a huge success. Drone Manufacturers from all over the Globe showed off their new products and software applications. There were drones available for the hobbyist as well as the commercial application side. The Drone use that the mass public understands is just the tip of the iceberg. New technologies are enabling drones to complete tasks that are highly dangerous for humans. There are drones built to string power lines, drones to spay crops, drones for security, drones for thermal imaging and drones for search and rescue. As the USA becomes more educated about what drones offer and the safety they provide it is the hope of the Drone and UAV community that restrictions will be modified by common sense approach and allow for future technologies to present themselves.
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Published on Aug 14, 2015. MMC UAVs disaster emergency support team arrived Tianjin explosion live to videography the explosion, after 30 hours later, aerial the accident scene after the explosion, the scene is a mess, smoke and debris everywhere, nearby residents have been evacuated, the air filled with the pungent smell. A few cars through the high-speed when the explosion happened has been distorted. Behind the explosion live, the bell tower forever fixed in 11:36 (the explosion time)...
Thanks for firefighters fighting in Tianjin explosion, pray for the victims! |
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T-Mobile Netherlands believes flying drones should be equipped with an embedded Sim card. The operator's Drone Technology working group is looking if it possible to inspect mobile sites with a flying camera before technicians go onto the roof.For each flight of an inspection drone, permission must currently be granted by the Dutch Aviation Authority.T-Mobile NL's technical pilot is looking to see if an embedded Sim could simplify the process. The Sim would be used for registration with the airline and telecom authorities. The sim could also have functionalities, such as automatic geofencing, showing the zones where the drones should not fly. T-Mobile NL believes that an embedded Sim could be a way of regulating drones in Europe. Interested parties should contact drone@t-mobile.nl |
Records BrokenTropical moisture tied to distant Hurricane Joaquin has contributed to exceptionally heavy rain in Charleston and much of South Carolina. Charleston International Airport reported 11.50 inches of rainfall Saturday, breaking the all-time single-day record of 10.52 inches set Sept. 21, 1998, during a similar setup involving moisture from former Tropical Storm Hermine.
Meanwhile, the National Weather Service in Charleston said the tide peaked at 8.29 feet above mean lower low water at 1:42 p.m. Saturday, the highest level in Charleston Harbor since Hurricane Hugo established the record tide of 12.56 feet on Sept. 21, 1989. (For reference, a tide level of 7 feet signals minor flooding and a level of 8 feet signals the start of major flooding.) “What we are experiencing is an unprecedented event, Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. told Charleston City Paper. "That is the huge amount of rain over a relatively short period of days,” said Riley, who predicted that this month’s rainfall would reach record amounts for Charleston in the month of October. |
“This will eventually pass,” said Mayor Riley. “Our goal right now is just to get everybody through safe and in the most pleasant manner possible.”
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GoPro founder and CEO Nick Woodman confirmed that a GoPro drone was on its way in an interview with our own Matt Burns at Disrupt SF. “Development is on track for the first half of 2016. We have some differentiations that are right in the GoPro alley,” he said.
Other than that, Woodman didn’t give any hint about what this drone will do. But it’s clear that a GoPro drone makes a lot of sense given the company’s camera expertise. |
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Intel and Yuneec plan to collaborate on projects, but have not revealed what they are going to develop. This is the third drone startup Intel has invested in so far. The other two are Airware, which makes commercial drone software (and also has its own UAV fund) and PrecisionHawk, a sensor hardware maker and data analysis platform.
The drone market is expected to grow quickly and venture capital firms are pouring funding into startups. According to CB Insights, drone companies had raised $172 million by May 2015, more than the previous three years combined. This means that the consumer drone market is becoming crowded and companies like Yuneec, EHANG, DJI, and U.S. rival 3D Robotics will have to focus on honing UAVs and software for business users. By investing in startups that cover drone hardware, software, and data analysis, Intel looks set to start building an ecosystem that can not only use its semiconductors, but also diversify revenue beyond chips as it recovers from several quarters of slow revenue growth. |
RPA Training from ABC News Back Story on Vimeo. |
Proposed changes to Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) rules will soon make it easier for media organisations to use small remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), better known as drones, for news gathering.
But the ABC will tightly control their use to ensure they are operated in a safe way and that privacy is respected. During his 15 years on the road for the ABC's Foreign Correspondent program, award winning journalist Mark Corcoran reported from many of the world's hot spots, covering wars, civil unrest, and disasters. In 2006, when filming in a bomb-ravaged Beirut street during a lull in air strikes, an Israeli military targeting drone with a camera attached flew overhead. |
ABC develops drone training course for camera operators While all RPAs are subject to CASA rules, a proposed change in licensing for small "low risk" craft weighing less than two kilograms will make it easier for media organisations to use them for newsgathering and film-making in some areas.
But the national broadcaster is determined that they be operated responsibly and has developed an innovative training course for camera operators working on its news and current affairs programs who work domestically and are also often deployed overseas. "I think this is the first time, certainly in Australia, that this kind of internal training has been conducted for RPAs that weigh less than two kilograms and the ABC has a responsibility here as the nation's largest broadcaster," Corcoran said. |
We already have the ability to theoretically impinge on people's privacy with helicopters that can record good imagery more than a kilometre away from the subject, or with the powerful lenses we use on standard news cameras, and we don't do that because of the editorial controls and I see that applying to the use of RPAs. Mark Corcoran.
But there are limitations.
CASA's rules prevent sub-two-kilogram RPAs from being flown within 5.5 kilometres of an airport or aerodrome; at night; within 30 metres of people; or directly over the top of populous areas such as crowded parks and beaches. Operators must keep them below 121 metres and always within line of sight. Corcoran said those restrictions and proposed new rules banning filming near helipads mean most metropolitan areas will be off limits. "I think initially for the ABC, the potential will be immediately realised within rural and regional areas, where we don't have the population density and don't have the air traffic," he said.
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Aerial drones are targeting a new enemy: malaria.
Four hundred feet above a Malaysian forest, a three-foot eBee drone hovers and takes pictures with a 16-megapixel camera every 10 to 20 seconds. But it's not gathering images of the mosquitoes that transmit malaria. Even today's best drones aren't capable of such a photographic marvel. Rather, the drone is looking at a changing landscape that holds clues to the disease's spread. The malaria drone mission, described in a study published Oct. 22 in Trends in Parasitology, began in December 2013, when UK scientists decided to track a rare strain of the mosquito-borne disease that has surged near Southeast Asian cities. Understanding deforestation may be the key in seeing how this kind of malaria, known as Plasmodium knowlesi, is transmitted. |
Aerial drones are targeting a new enemy: malaria.
Four hundred feet above a Malaysian forest, a three-foot eBee drone hovers and takes pictures with a 16-megapixel camera every 10 to 20 seconds. But it's not gathering images of the mosquitoes that transmit malaria. Even today's best drones aren't capable of such a photographic marvel. Rather, the drone is looking at a changing landscape that holds clues to the disease's spread. The malaria drone mission, described in a study published Oct. 22 in Trends in Parasitology, began in December 2013, when UK scientists decided to track a rare strain of the mosquito-borne disease that has surged near Southeast Asian cities. Understanding deforestation may be the key in seeing how this kind of malaria, known as Plasmodium knowlesi, is transmitted. The mosquitoes that carry P. knowlesi are forest dwellers. The insects breed in cool pools of water under the forest canopy and sap blood from macaque monkeys that harbor the malaria parasite. |
Some films, including Harry Potter, have used drone sequences from filming done in countries with looser regulations. Photograph: Jaap Buitendijk/AP
Schools use drones for learning. |
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