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NASA Disasters Program offers satellite imagery, maps for disaster response

July 21, 2019

Jeremy Kirkendall, senior GIS administrator for the NASA Disasters Program, gives GPS World an overview of the program […]

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An expanding search pattern for a UAV on the UgCS platform. (Image: Airborne Response)

Search pattern planning for UAVs helps rescue response

August 9, 2018

UgCS, a provider of mission planning software for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), and public safety and disaster response […]

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Source: Simon Batzdorfer, Markus Bobbe, Martin Becker and Ulf Bestmann, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig

Teaming ground and air vehicles for an autonomous multi-sensor survey

April 9, 2018

By Simon Batzdorfer, Markus Bobbe, Martin Becker and Ulf Bestmann, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig All images courtesy of the […]

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Esri, DigitalGlobe map California wildfires

October 12, 2017

Using live data from USGS and Waze, a new Esri interactive map visualizes active wildfire locations and traffic alerts […]

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EagleView capturing Hurricane Irma imagery to speed response

September 12, 2017

EagleView Technologies is actively flying to acquire post-storm imagery in Florida following Hurricane Irma. With more than 20 […]

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Hurricane Irma prep gets boost from Esri resource catalog

September 8, 2017

Esri has published a Hurricane Irma Resource Catalog in advance of the Category 4 hurricane cutting through the Caribbean islands […]

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PNT Roundup: DARPA FLA program tests sensor-loaded quadcopters

September 8, 2016

MicroUAVs Self-Navigate Indoors with Inertial, Cameras, More The sensor-loaded quadcopters edged around obstacles and achieved target speeds of […]

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