Image: Percepto Transport Canada has approved Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to operate Percepto’s drone-in-a-box solution beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) at McConnell Lake Control Dam without a visual observer on site. A BVLOS Special Flight Operations Certificate was issued…
A team of researchers has developed a low-cost sensor that can detect the changes in river height to provide wide-area flood warnings. The Raspberry Pi Reflector (RPR) was designed by a team of scientists from the University of Bonn, the…
The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) of the U.S. Geological Survey has been working to rebuild its geodesic monitoring network after lava consumed several GNSS stations in 2018. The work began following the 2018 Kīlauea lower East Rift Zone eruption and…
This graphic represents measurements uploaded via the CAMALIOT app by thousands of volunteers. (Image: ESA) More than 11,000 people around Europe and the world have turned their smartphones into GNSS monitoring tools by downloading the CAMALIOT app, so far delivering…
A couple of interesting drone applications came up this month — marine smoke emission monitoring and studies from a little known European drone manufacturer. Monitoring marine emissions Climate change: Some might say these are words we don’t really need to…
