“Seen & Heard” is a monthly feature of GPS World magazine, traveling the world to capture interesting and unusual news stories involving the GNSS/PNT industry. This month, we focus on UAVs. Screenshot: Quaternium video Non-stop flight in Valencia On Feb. 3,…
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…
UAVs are finding places in the lives of many more people — farmers employing crop-spraying drones to counter a locus infestation in Pakistan, finding the way towards useful inspection tasks at an operating airport in the U.K., large airborne vehicles…
By Alexander Rügamer, Daniel Rubino, Xabier Zubizarreta, Wolfgang Felber, Fraunhofer IIS, and Jan Wendel and Daniel Pfaffelhuber, Airbus Defense and Space GmbH This work presents a new secure localization method that can be used for UAVs to obtain a new…
UgCS, a provider of mission planning software for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), and public safety and disaster response UAS expert Airborne Response have developed a comprehensive search capability for drones that will allow remote pilots to more effectively conduct search-and-rescue operations using…
