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The Surveillance Drone   Why Surveillance? What makes an ideal surveillance drone? To appreciate the answer to this question it is important to first understand what Surveillance is. Security and Surveillance speak to some of the most basic of human needs: safety– how the environment gears up to ensure security, and with that, the safety…

 DRONES in Oil and Gas Industry: 6 areas to make a difference.   In the Oil and Gas industry, critical functions are: asset management and monitoring to assess production performance,  environmental and safety compliance,  overall integrity and other factors.  While the needs are straightforward, the complexities, risks and scale involved are immense: pipelines span thousands…

A discussion about the tactical advantages provided by an airborne drones in car chases compared to landbased operators whether on foot or in a vehicle. THE ANATOMY OF A DRONE-ENABLED VEHICLE PURSUIT IN AN URBAN SETTING Increasing urbanization brings various elements of society closer together a trend further exacerbated by contention for resources. Car chases,…

DRONES in PIPELINE MONITORING Airborne Drones discusses how to implement drones in pipeline monitoring     INTRODUCTION Oil pipelines are vast infrastructures often in difficult terrains such as marshlands, hot desserts or frozen areas, or even areas of conflict. The length of main pipelines in Russia exceeds 280 thousand kilometres while in America it exceeds…

Drones in Search and Rescue.  While drones are rapidly demonstrating its value across many industries, its application is particularly dramatic with drones in Search and Rescue operations where the extra range and reach of drones make it is presence felt like nowhere else. Unlike most other applications which are fairly routinized and predictable, SAR operations…

THE STATE OF THE DRONE MARKET AT THE END OF 2018. Airborne Drones discusses the current state of the drone market and makes some predictions. It is fashionable at the end of a year to review the developments of the past year. Airborne Drones offers its own overview.   The biggest stories of the 2018….