Newsletter drone 22 décembre 2020
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Environnement
Canada Selects Elbit Systems’ Hermes StarLiner UAS for Environmental Protection
UAS weekly – 21/12/2020 – Elbit Systems announced today that following a competitive procurement process, Public Services and Procurement Canada, on behalf of Transport Canada, selected the HermesTM StarLiner Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) to support maritime environmental protection missions in the Arctic and along the Canadian Eastern and Western coasts, as part of the Canadian National Aerial Surveillance Program. Fully certified to operate in civilian airspace, the Hermes StarLiner UAS will take-off and land in civilian airfields to perform a wide range of operations to reduce harmful environmental impacts, including detection of oil pollution, Ice Patrol and Reconnaissance, wildlife survey, Fisheries Patrol and others… lire l’article
Drone captif
COMSovereign Delivers First Tethered Drone-Based LTE Network
UAS weekly – 21/12/2020 – COMSovereign Holding Corp., a U.S.-based developer of 4G LTE Advanced and 5G Communication Systems and Solutions, announced that its Drone Aviation business unit has delivered its first fully integrated, drone-deployed LTE network system to a customer. This milestone marks the commercial availability of a new tethered drone-based aerial platform that allows customers to “stand up” a fully operational LTE network without reliance on existing infrastructure. Built on Drone Aviation’s highly portable WATT 200 tethered drone, the new aerial LTE network platform features the FeatherLite™ airborne LTE communications package developed by Virtual NetCom (VNC), another unit of COMSovereign Holding Corp. Unlike other drone-based telecommunication network solutions, FeatherLite leverages advanced network function virtualization to create a complete 3GPP standards-compliant airborne LTE network… lire l’article
Surveillance de linéaires
RTE expérimente l’inspection automatique des lignes électriques par dirigeable drone
Aero Buzz – 21/12/2020 – Le tout premier essai de vol du Diridrone de CNIM Air Space en conditions réelles a eu lieu les 15 et 16 octobre 2020 entre les communes de Mauriac (Cantal) et Soursac (Corrèze). L’objectif était de contrôler l’état des lignes électriques sous tension à l’aide de capteurs embarqués sous le dirigeable et faciliter la maintenance du réseau électrique sur de grandes distances. Après un premier vol expérimental en octobre 2020 et l’analyse des images recueillies par le drone, RTE va poursuivre ses travaux de développement dès 2021 avec l’intégration du Diridrone dans ses processus de surveillance du réseau… lire l’article
ISR
Kongsberg Geospatial Announces New Tactical UAS Sensor Data Management Solution
Geospatial World – 14/12/2020 – Kongsberg Geospatial, the creator of the TerraLens geospatial map-engine Software Development Kit (SDK), has announced the release of the Modular ISR Data Analysis and Storage (MIDAS) solution. Kongsberg Geospatial MIDAS is a Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (PED) Solution for rapid intelligence analysis of data from tactical drones. MIDAS was developed to provide a rapid capability for the exploitation and further distribution of drone sensor data… lire l’article
R & D
Video: Loyal Wingman completes first high speed taxi
Australian Aviation – 22/12/2020 – Boeing has announced that its Loyal Wingman prototype has completed its first high-speed taxi in a “remote test location” in Australia. The planemaker also revealed it has pushed back its first flight from the end of 2020 to early 2021. Loyal Wingman, fully unveiled to the world in May, is the first military aircraft to be designed, engineered and manufactured in Australia in more than 50 years. It uses AI to help both manned and unmanned aircraft in mid-air, hence the Australian project name Loyal Wingman… lire l’article
Inspection visuelle
Drones for safety inspection of ships pass test
DTU.dk – 15/12/2020 – The drones to be used for safety inspections of ships in the future passed the first ‘go-no-go test’ with flying colours. The next step will involve further development for deployment in practice. Surveys for classification of vessels are currently carried out by human specialists who move through the ships’ many different tanks to check whether the metal hull has started to corrode– and, if so, how serious the damage is. In cooperation with Force Technology, which has been carrying out drone inspections for a number of years, as well as Dampselskabet NORDEN and Lloyd’s Register, researchers from DTU Electrical Engineering have now developed the first drones designed to take over such inspections. The autonomous drones will even be able to perform the inspections more accurately… lire l’article