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/22^nd February 2018, Daily Camera, CU News By Charlie Brennan/ Student researchers at the University of Colorado are planning to add the study of sperm whale communication patterns to the fast-growing list of tasks that can be aided by drone technology. And they — the students, not the whales — could use the public's help. CU's 12-member Search and Help Aquatic Mammals UAS aerospace engineering student team — the acronym, appropriately, is SHAMU — is trying to raise funds for a project aimed at facilitating scientific research on sperm whale communication patterns.

/31^st January 2018, DRONE MARKET WATCH^TM/ A passenger drone (also known as a drone taxi or flying taxi) is a type of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that carries passengers. The first passenger drone was introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016 by Guangzhou-based Chinese company Ehang Inc and is called the Ehang 184. The company has raised more than $50 million in capital funding.

/24^th December 2017, DRONE MARKET WATCH^TM/ The global commercial and civil drone market recorded strong growth in 2017, with many prominent companies and investors showing confidence in drone technology. Stay with Drone Market Watch in 2018 to get leatest industry insights, analyses and reports. To see our greeting card just press ...

/22^nd December 2017, EASA, EC, DRONE MARKET WATCH^TM/ EU ambassadors (Permanent Representatives Committee) today endorsed the deal concluded with the European Parliament on 29 November on revised common safety rules for civil aviation and a new remit for the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). The reform includes the first ever EU-wide rules for civil drones, that will allow remotely piloted aircraft of all sizes to fly safely in European airspace and will bring legal certainty for this rapidly expanding industry.

/14^th December 2017, Los Angeles Times by Hailey Branson-Potts/ The Los Angeles Fire Department dispatched drones for the first time while battling a wildfire this month as firefighters took on the Skirball fire in Bel-Air. Fire officials demonstrated the use of the unmanned aerial vehicles for reporters on Thursday, sending two drones buzzing near blackened hills around Linda Flora Drive.

/30^th November 2017, REUTERS by Julia Fioretti/ Drone owners in Europe will have to register their devices if “dangerous” and aircraft makers ensure that black box recordings can be downloaded in real-time if a plane is in distress under a sweeping reform of Europe’s aviation safety agency. European Union lawmakers and member states reached a tentative deal early on Thursday on a long-awaited reform of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), which includes Europe’s first ever rules on drones.

/15^th December 2017, Jones Day by Ozan Akyurek, Maximilian P. Krause, Rhys W. Phelps, Francesca Ravallese and Martin J. Wortmann/ The European Union aims at producing effective EU-wide rules to make drone use in low-level airspace safe, secure, and environmentally friendly. The "U-space" the European Union wants to regulate covers altitudes of up to 150 meters.

/16^th November 2017, DRONE MARKET WATCH^TM/ Drones, or remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS), as they are known, are no longer used solely by the military. In the UK alone, there are now hundreds of companies, mainly SMEs, using RPAS to provide a range of services, including photography, land surveying, building inspection and crop analysis. RPAS will revolutionise what the aviation industry can achieve and how it is regulated. Europe Union already took a number of regulatory initiatives in order to reap the future benefits of this exciting new technology.

/16^th October 2017, Cho Jin-Young/ The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure & Transport holds a public hearing on drone industry development with the Korea Transport Institute and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, reported from BusinessKorea. According to the ministry’s plan to that end, approximately one trillion won (US$0.9 billion) shall be invested for drone technology research and development until 2022 so that South Korea can rank fifth in the world in the sector and its technological strength reaches at least 90% of those of industry leaders.

/20^th September 2017, Alfonso Torres-Rua/ Multiple drones or UAV devices are available in the market for agricultural purposes, and some of them are already being used in Utah farmland. Because drones are available, it is important to determine their capabilities. The camera sensors are key to the quality of maps produced by the drones. In general, low cost sensors that capture red-green-blue (RGB) and near-infrared (NIR) pictures are not necessarily calibrated for agricultural purposes.