The University of Alaska Fairbanks has tested unmanned aircraft and used them to map wildfires, count Steller sea lions and assess salmon nests. Alaska State Troopers are preparing to acquire an ...

Alaska’s drone ... systems,” or drones, became operational Monday, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The FAA authorized the University of Alaska in Fairbanks to conduct wildlife ...

Instead, everyone aboard the Nanuq, a University of Alaska Fairbanks research vessel ... company that provided the sensor inserted into the drone. Most days, researchers took the glider farther ...

He can also convert hundreds of images taken during a flight to produce 3D maps. Drones ... like the University of Alaska Fairbanks were among the few to fly drones. The university has about ...

They went to Barrow to map sea ice ... to attend the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the fall, said he always liked cinematography and had already bought a drone before the class started.

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An unmanned Aeryon Scout drone flown by the University of Alaska Fairbanks stayed on the lookout ... in the aftermath of an earthquake, or map the borders of Alaskan wildfires with infrared ...

Fairbanks International Airport became the first international airport in the state to host a large drone launch. The Sentry, an unmanned aircraft owned by the University of Alaska Fairbanks ...

project manager at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration, said the drone can fly for around five to seven hours powered by both battery and ...

Although drone technology is becoming more mainstream and supported on a local, state and federal level, users of the tech may still face barriers to implementation. In Alaska, those challenges ...

Alaska is at the forefront of using drone technology to better forecast and study disasters such as avalanches, according to Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) experts. The research goal is to improve ...