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Showing posts with label drones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drones. Show all posts
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Working with PhotoScan in the cloud

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Back in 2012 when I first started flying drones to make high-resolution photomaps (e.g., strapping a first-generation GoPro to the bottom...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Here's a holiday gift guide to help you get started in drones

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While drones have some great potential both as a tool and an educational hobby, it can be rather intimidating to get started. There...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

A call for journalists and makers to join hands around IOT and evidence-based journalism

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Writing for Al Jazeera English, D. Parvaz reported on a recent conference for atomic experts organized by the International Atomic Energy...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

A bug's eye view, brought to you by a nano quadrotor drone.

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What's better than a tiny drone that buzzes like a bee through offices and hallways? How about a tiny drone shielded with a 3D-printe...
Monday, January 13, 2014

A discussion on deploying drones for international development

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Last month, Deutsche Post DHL transported six kilograms of medicine from a pharmacy in Bonn, across the Rhine River, to its headquarter...
Monday, November 25, 2013

There's been a big uptick in drone research over the last decade

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Recently, I was tasked with producing some basic citations on unmanned aerial vehicles, more commonly called drones, for a new grant pr...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Drones, journalism, and the peak of inflated expectations

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It's a story that's been repeated time and time again with emergent technology. Researchers publish some new breakthrough, and th...
Friday, August 16, 2013

Even with a ton of drone regulations, there was a ton of innovation at the SUSB Expo

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An MLB Company representative shows the company's Super BAT's camera gimbal system to an audience member during the SUSB Expo, in ...
Monday, July 22, 2013

UAVs Pros Cons in Toronto: safety and dialogue are keys to legitimacy

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Ian Hannah of Avrobotics.ca displayed his professional hexcopter at the UAVs Pros Cons Symposium in Toronto. One of the biggest drone-re...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

Why the word "drone" is scaring neighbors, creating bad legislation, and blocking an economic boom.

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Sensationalist coverage and fabricated illustrations have cemented the word "drone" as a weapon in the public psyche. But it may...
Friday, May 10, 2013

Life-saving rescue could be game changer for drone adoption

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Search and rescue often is touted as one of the areas where unmanned aircraft, commonly called drones, can do the most good with existin...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013

You can't always get the the drone you want, but if you try a laser you'll get what you need

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 The "perfect" small unmanned aircraft, commonly called a drone, might still be several generations away. But like Moore's ...
Monday, April 8, 2013

On engaging the public on privacy, journalism, and drones.

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Journalists might be familiar with the quote by US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, who once wrote "Publicity is justly commended ...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

"Drone" over SXSW provides aerial view of NASA's shiny new space telescope

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Unmanned aircraft made their South By Southwest debut this year, and prominently so. A session with Chris Anderson, former Wired EIC tu...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

World's most popular consumer drone gains autonomous flight

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Since it was introduced in 2010, the AR.Drone has been a success among hobbyists, hackers, engineering students, drone journalists , ac...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Droneveillance, and blogging for the International Symposium on Technology and Society

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Lately I've found myself blogging for the International Symposium on Technology and Society , or ISTAS. It's an annual conference...
Friday, November 9, 2012

We need more drones because we’re having more big disasters.

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The images of an inundated New York City certainly were eye-catching. But it isn’t until you start parsing the data that you start to rea...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

The case of Chicken v Bomber, and how it might impact drone law

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The first thing you should know is if you run afoul (pun very much intended) of the law, I can’t bail you out. If you read the “About ...
Friday, August 24, 2012

Drones are monitoring sea mammals, keeping tabs on oil spills, helping governments prevent floods.

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Every year, AUVSI, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International,hosts the biggest conference and trade show for drones in t...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Get the fire extinguisher! Drone safety, GPS spoofing, and how I learned to stop worrying and love the drone.

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There are certain things you expect when you're building drones for photomapping and journalism. First, you expect some setbacks. Per...