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A Pasco Sheriff’s Office drone found a missing man in the woods outside San Antonio, Florida, in the dark early hours of July 2, using a thermal camera to pick his body heat out of the surrounding trees. Deputies got the call around 3:25 a.m., put a drone in the air, and used the aerial…
Greece will run more than 100 drone surveillance bases and three mobile command centers carrying thermal cameras across the country during the 2026 wildfire season, its largest drone deployment yet for fire detection. Government officials laid out the plan as part of a wider civil-protection strategy presented at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Kyriakos…
Welcome to your weekly UAS News Update. I have three stories for you this week: Autel is fighting back against the FCC’s Covered List, the Michigan House passed two drone procurement bills while stalling on airspace restrictions, and a drones-for-good story where a thermal drone saved a life in freezing temperatures. Let’s get to it.…
Portage County Sheriff’s Office deputies located a missing 91-year-old woman with a thermal-equipped drone at 11:51 p.m. on May 5, roughly 43 minutes after the initial call came in. She’d walked away from a residential care facility in Plover, Wisconsin sometime after 9:45 p.m. and ended up in a wooded area, as Waupaca Now reported.…
Neros Technologies completed its first U.S. Army PBAS delivery ahead of schedule and launched Archer Block 2, a field-reconfigurable FPV drone with swappable sensors and the Flatbow ground control system. Here's what it means for Phase II of the Drone Dominance Program.
A dog named Sweetie spent the night alone, injured, and hidden in a freezing retention pond. A drone found her in minutes. This is exactly why DFR programs exist, as Oregon Live reports. Sweetie’s Long Night in Happy Valley The call came in around noon on Friday. A dog had slipped through a fence near…
A small town in Enfield is about to decide whether it wants a drone in the sky, and the debate sounds a lot like conversations happening across America right now. On Monday at 6 p.m., residents will gather at Whitney Hall, 23 Main St., for a public hearing on whether the Selectboard should accept a…
The Monroe Police Department used a drone with thermal imaging early Thursday morning to locate a suspect who fled from a stolen vehicle after a pursuit that began in neighboring Wadesboro, as reported by WCNC. Shortly before 1 a.m., Monroe officers were alerted that the Wadesboro Police Department was actively pursuing a stolen red Hyundai…
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