News tagged with aerial vehicles

A new imaging system produces 3-D models of monuments using unmanned aircraft

University of Granada researchers have developed a 3D imaging system that scans 3D models of historical buildings using data obtained from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)–an aircraft without a human pilot onboard. This ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Flying 3-D eye-bots

Like a well-rehearsed formation team, a flock of flying robots rises slowly into the air with a loud buzzing noise. A good two dozen in number, they perform an intricate dance in the sky above the seething ...

Electronics / Robotics

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Get your rotor runnin': Flexrotor program takes off for next phase (w/ Video)

Part helicopter, part airplane, the Office of Naval Research (ONR)-sponsored Flexrotor vertical takeoff and landing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enters the next development phase April 30 in delivering improved maritime ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Darpa to develop mobile millimeter-wave backhaul networks

Providing high-bandwidth communications for troops in remote forward operating locations is not only critical but also challenging because a reliable infrastructure optimized for remote geographic areas does ...

Technology / Telecom

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Researchers devise new means for creating elastic conductors

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new method for creating elastic conductors made of carbon nanotubes, which will contribute to large-scale production of the material for use ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NASA radar to study Hawaii's most active volcano

(PhysOrg.com) -- An airborne radar developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has returned to Hawaii to continue its study of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii's current most active volcano.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research to help safer emergency aircraft landings

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) aviation researchers are developing an information system to help Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) make safer emergency landings and better enable their wider commercial use.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

NASA studies vegetation canopy water content, soil moisture

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists seeking insight into the role vegetation plays in water fluctuation between soil and the atmosphere recently conducted research using specialized sensors during a series of NASA ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An unmanned aerial vehicle that uses wind power like a bird

Queensland University of Technology PhD student Wesam Al Sabban is a genius and has the medal to prove it!

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 3

NASA unmanned aircraft measures low altitude greenhouse gases

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, NASA researchers have demonstrated the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to collect very low altitude airborne measurements of greenhouse gases at several sites in California and ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A labor saving way to monitor vast rangelands

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have found that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a tool used by the military, may be suitable for keeping an eye on changing land-use patterns across vast tracts of western ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Patented method transforms digital cameras for aerial color infrared photography

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and David Linden, a technical consultant currently serving as a chief scientist at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in McLean, Va., have jointly ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Texas-based defense contractor hacked by Anonymous

(AP) -- A Texas-based defense and aerospace firm says one of its top officials has had his email account broken into by the hacking group Anonymous.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Engineers look to the birds for the future of UAVs (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at UC San Diego are mimicking the movement of bird wings to help improve the maneuverability of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Technology / Engineering

created May 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Micro aircraft IMPULLS improves avionic systems and sensors

Myriad sensors and systems provide modern aircraft with data for flight control. But a bird's eye perspective is also of great benefit when measuring pollutants, searching for missing persons and even in archaeological ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0