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Civilian Unmanned Aircraft applications
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Aerial reconnaissance
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Security and control
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Aerial Reconnaissance
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Aerial Policeman and crowd monitoring
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Aerial traffic and security watch
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Monitor civil engineering sites
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Monitor waterways and shipping
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Oil and gas pipeline watch
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Disaster effects management
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Rescue and clear up effort supervision
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Disaster damage estimation
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Countryside and agriculture
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Monitor the countryside
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Monitor litter on beaches and in parks
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Monitor agricultural activities
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Survey work
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Telecommunications
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Telecom relay and signal coverage survey
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Oil and gas E+P
Mineral exploration
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Geophysical surveys
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Types of Unmanned Aircraft
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This photo is of the 2.7 Kg Dragon Eye unmanned aircraft at work in Fallujah. Photo by
LTC Norm Root.
as posted on
http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/articles/military_photos_20052111.asp
The 12,110 Kg Northrop Grumman “Global Hawk” with a range of 22,236 Km
- from
http://www.northropgrumman.com/unmanned/
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The US military is spending an enormous amount of money and time on the
development and deployment of Unmanned Air Systems, and it is instructive to
learn of their progress. A comprehensive document on the activities and
experience of the US military in this area is to be found in the latest UAS
Roadmap 2007 - 2032:
Download from
http://www.acq.osd.mil/usd/Unmanned
%20Systems%20Roadmap.2007-2032.pdf
or download a
copy of the roadmap
(
12.250 MBytes
) from the Barnard Microsystems site. Since both files are large, it may take
some time after selecting to download either file before you see anything on the
screen...
The older US DoD Road Map for 2005-2030 is also still available.
download
uav_roadmap2005
(note this is a big document: 9.216 MBytes)
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Outstanding technical challenges
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demonstrating precision flying, in terms of a defined flight path
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achieving high reliability, fail safe systems
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development of:
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a low vibration engine and a gyro stabilised, modular, payload mounting
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embedded, effective, “sense and avoid” intelligence
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a high data rate duplex communication link between the ground and unmanned
aircraft
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a Network Centric infrastructure, to manage data from unmanned aircraft
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low cost, precision, magnetometer
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low cost and lightweight gravity meter
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a small, sensitive, ethane monitoring sensor
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automated image data compression algorithms
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automated data correction, fusion and interpretation software
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