Showing posts with label drones.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drones.. Show all posts
Sunday, December 31, 2017

Land Titlles and Drones

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According to this piece only about 30 percent of land in Africa is titled and recorded.  The plan is to use drones to map in detail enough t...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

The Future Is Now: Amphib Warfare

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Born before US entry into WWII, I grew up with a lot of military history available.  I didn't like the military when I served, but retai...
Tuesday, November 01, 2016

FSA Aerial Photography Using Drones?

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FCW has a post on USDA's IT budget requests.  It includes this paragraph: Then there's the outright fanciful. When the Federal Avi...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

First the Truck Drivers, Then the Soldiers

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Kevin Drum blogs about the threat to long distance truck drivers (and a commenter notes the follow-on impacts on restaurants, etc.) presag...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Robots in Everything

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DOD has its first robot ship. Farmers are building their own.
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Which Branch Will Shoot Down Drones?

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Politico has a piece on a US Army analysis of Russian military capabilities as demonstrated in Ukraine.  One paragraph: Karber says the l...
Monday, February 29, 2016

Y2K as Metaphor: International Date Line

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From a NYTimes piece reporting on a DOD study raising problems with potential autonomous weaponry, which selects its own targets. The Cen...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Drone Registration and Obama's Immigration Actions and Guns

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Today's papers (I think, but I'm playing catchup with my reading after a short trip) say that the FAA is planning to implement a r...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

Agriculture and Drones

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An old story and a little confused.  The guy was a fighter pilot, but operated drones in Iraq and Afghanistan, so I guess he was a converted...
Monday, October 13, 2014

Farming Drones

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Piece on farmers wanting to use drones. They argue that the US will fall behind in the technology unless FAA immediately does rules.  It ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Robot Day: Cows and Grapes

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The NY Times has an article on milking robots.  I'd read about robotic milkers before, perhaps even posted on them, but this is the fir...
Thursday, November 07, 2013

The Most Un-Private Place in America?

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Might be a farmer's fields, once the FAA gets off its rear and approves drones for farm use,  drones which can provide data down to the ...
Sunday, September 01, 2013

FSA and Drones

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Via Marginal Revolution, here's a piece on how archeologists are using drones in their work. Causes me to ask: when is FSA going to dr...
Sunday, April 07, 2013

Drones and FEMA

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Seems to me FEMA should immediately create its own air force of drones, first to survey the aftermath of hurricanes, flooding, etc to assess...
Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Drones and Farming

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Via Marginal Revolution, here's a Daily Beast piece on drones in farming.  Unlimited possibilities, particularly with precision farming...