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Flying drones in national parks and designated wilderness areas for commercial or recreational purposes is strictly forbidden under current federal law. However, states are free to determine whether these same restrictions apply in the case of their own park lands. Many have seconded the federal prohibition, largely out of concern for visitor and animal safety... Read More
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New drone footage of Hurricane Nicole’s devastating impact in Florida is raising public awareness of the growing threat that these storms are posing to residents of small coastal towns. The hurricane started as a tropical storm and was not expected to cause severe damage. In fact, it came ashore as a Category 1 hurricane... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Drone industry advocates have been pushing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for years to allow unmanned aircraft to be flown without remote piloting, especially in non-residential areas for the purpose of surveying and protecting critical infrastructure. While the FAA continues to debate new regulations to govern Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone operations, the... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:The war in Ukraine is fast becoming a “battle of drones.” Each side has begun deploying small, hard-to-detect missile-equipped drones for deep penetration “kamikaze” attacks on the other side’s ground vehicles and rearguard encampments. The drone war had remained at a low level until last month when Russia escalated its drone attacks and began targeting... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Forty-five of the 50 US states prohibit the use of drones for the purpose of hunting wildlife, including bears, deer and birds. The reasons are largely moral and ethical: Using a drone to scout wild animals is widely viewed as a violation of the “Fair Chase Rule,” which stipulates that human hunters should not have... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Is the federal government exclusively empowered – through the FAA – to regulate access to low-altitude airspace above private commercial and residential property? One frequently hears this argument, especially from drone industry advocates seeking to promote and expand the use of drones to reduce their labor and operational costs and to enhance safety. But as... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:One of the most highly touted competitive advantages of drones is their ability to conduct aerial site surveys that are more cost-effective and technically accurate than field surveys conducted on foot. Thousands of farmers and mining and construction company owners already swear by drones. But drones are also proving their worth identifying the ruins and... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:South Carolina is one of a handful of US states, mostly located in the South, that has yet to experience a major drone industry “take off.” The Virginia-based Mercatus Center, which ranks all 50 states in terms of their degree of “drone-friendliness,” places the Palmetto State at #43. Even reliably conservative legislators have sought to... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:In recent years, heart-rending images of dead or dying sea mammals and fish, their stomachs stuffed with plastic, have shocked citizens around the globe. Reports indicate that the amount of plastic dumped into the world’s oceans has tripled over the past decade. And unlike oil spills, which can be remedied with extensive and costly clean-up... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Worried about recent threats from neighboring Turkey, its long-time Mediterranean rival, Greece is fast-tracking the development of a new fleet of surveillance drones that can keep tabs on the nation’s vast island archipelago while sending a signal to its neighbor – which possesses its own increasingly robust armed drone industry – that Greece is not... Read More
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