The latter has been especially prominent due to the fact that many UAS applications involve the use of the UAV as a platform for a high definition camera. The issues which have had to be addressed for this type of operation have centred on both the safety of other aircraft and issues of public (third party) safety and the protection of privacy. Aircraft external maintenance inspection.Agricultural fertiliser and chemical application.
Monitoring of linear network infrastructure such as railway tracks, power lines and pipelines.Visual, spectral and thermal examination of structures.Facilitation of communications and broadcast.Many of these uses are now well established and include: The recent rapid progress in extending the scope of military and State use of UAS has led to recognition of the very widespread potential for civil commercial applications of various UAS, the majority of which are small UAVs operating below the height above terrain normally used by manned aircraft or at least below about 1000 feet agl. As previously, the military has led the way in using UAVs and only more recently have they become, at the smaller size, accessible to civil users who were previously limited to the longstanding hobby activity of flying radio controlled model aircraft. In recent years, fixed wing UAVs have been joined by increasing numbers of rotary and multi-rotor UAVs. A total of 380 of these were built and used by both the Navy and the RAF before they were retired in 1947. However, well before this, the first recorded use of large UAVs was in 1935, when the British Royal Navy began using adapted DH82 Tiger Moth aircraft called 'Queen Bees' which were flown under radio control for gunnery target practice. Military and other State use of UAS has developed rapidly since it began apace in the USA in the early 1990s and has utilised satellite communications and GNSS navigation to operate UAVs at very long distances from their controllers. UAVs can vary in size from those which can be hand launched to purpose built or adapted vehicles the size of conventional fixed or rotary wing aircraft. In recent years, the tendency to refer to any UAV as a "drone" has developed but the term is not universally considered appropriate. UAS can also include an autonomously controlled UAV or, more likely, a semi autonomous UAV. These systems include, but are not limited to, remotely piloted air systems (RPAS) in which the UAV is controlled by a 'pilot' using a radio data link from a remote location. A command and control (C2) system - sometimes referred to as a communication, command and control (C3) system - to link the two.An autonomous or human-operated control system which is usually on the ground or a ship but may be on another airborne platform.Source: Regulation (EU) 2019/945 DescriptionĪn Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) has three components: Unmanned aircraft (UA) means any aircraft operating or designed to operate autonomously or to be piloted remotely without a pilot on board. Most publications use “drone” as the easily recognizable term for an unmanned aircraft, but UAV is becoming more popular, and is pretty much synonymous with drone as it stands for “unmanned aerial vehicle.Unmanned aircraft system (UAS) means an unmanned aircraft and the equipment to control it remotely. are flirting with drones as direct delivery vehicles for small packages, with hopes of utilizing the technology for much more in the near future. Some drones are also built to withstand extreme temperatures or other factors, making them able to conduct inspections in areas where humans would not be able to operate without shutting off parts of essential systems.
Large structures can be inspected in fractions of the time with drone technology. Because drones are unmanned, they can be deployed to areas of (otherwise) high risk to search for survivors and are even sent to places knowing they won’t return (though their data will).
“Eyes in the sky” have long been a key part of search and rescue operations, but similarly to aerial photography, even more, can be done when a pilot isn’t required for a search and rescue operation.
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