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While aerial drones are fast becoming commonplace, underwater drones or ROVs have been slower to make their way into mainstream consumer technology.  Both offer the opportunity to explore new areas and gain a fresh perspective on the world around us, with marine drones having the advantage of being free from much of the legislation that aerial drone pilots have to navigate. The vast majority of underwater drones operate tethered to a buoy or beacon in order to prevent [...]

Altitude Angel is the world's leading unmanned traffic management (UTM) provider and has taken steps to improve safety in the skies for all users by introducing a 'just culture' reporting system for drone operators and pilots. With the aim of catching up to the reporting standards already in place for the manned aviation industry, which is based on the principle of just culture.  This is not a no-blame scenario but it does recognise that only a tiny proportion [...]

While many industries are still exploring the way that they can harness the power of the UAV to boost efficiency, agriculture has already made headway into using drones to boost efficiency and move towards precision agriculture in an effort to gain the maximum output from their fields. While farming is often thought of as relying heavily on tradition, it's an area that has been remarkably quick to embrace the benefits that new technology has to offer with 18% [...]

Search and rescue teams in many areas - from coastguard to mountain rescue - have been investigating how drones can help them in their life saving work over the last few years. Having an aerial perspective on an emergency situation provides some very obvious benefits in terms of allowing fast searching over large areas that could have potentially difficult terrain to traverse on foot - exactly the type of terrain that search and rescue to teams are there to [...]

In today's competitive property market, sellers are always looking for a way for their names to stand out and attract the interest of the browsing buyer. The popularity of online estate agents means that the amount of real estate that a buyer can view is no longer limited to a physical shop window. This means that large volumes of properties can be displayed in a single desktop window - great for buyer choice but challenging if you're trying [...]

Drones can offer a no-intrusive, fast and cost-efficient way to assess your chimneys and roofs for both commercial and domestic properties. However, drone flights are not possible or practical in all circumstances or locations so mast photography can provide an excellent aerial photography alternative. There is no legal distance restriction when using a camera attached to a mast as there is with a drone.   They are not required to remain 30m / 50m away [...]

In the long, long list of things to do when you're planning a wedding, there's a relatively new checkbox that has appeared on the To Do List - hire a drone pilot. Couples are increasingly including a view from the skies as part of the ways in which they are going to capture their wedding memories. A UAV pilot isn't the perfect guest at all wedding venues but at those with substantial grounds, the resulting images and footage [...]