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New water rescue tactics: Microdrones meets DLRG

Microdrones and DLRG Horneburg demonstrate promising new water rescue tactic using drones and compact flotation devices.
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Simulation Success: Microdrones demonstrates how drones can improve water rescue

Sixty seconds. That’s how long it takes for an adult to drown. For a child, it takes only thirty seconds. Can drones help prevent such unthinkable tragedy? On Friday, July 22, 2016, Microdrones showed...
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Surveying Dangerous Structures: Follow-up Q & A to our crumbling dam project

The Microdrones team was recently featured in the sUAS Guide for helping a government conservation agency successfully inspect a crumbling dam that was too dangerous for surveyors to access using...
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Inside Unmanned Systems

Surveying and mapping: the right tools for the job
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Microdrones celebrates Part 107 with high-value offer

This is the day we’ve been waiting for,” said Mike Dziok, Marketing Director for Microdrones. “We’ve worked hard to perfect three exceptional UAS packages, all of which are available immediately.”
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Too "Dam" Dangerous?

When a conservation agency needed accurate data on a crumbling dam too treacherous for human access, they relied on an unmanned aerial system.
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Microdrones celebrates Part 107 with high-value offer

In celebration of the Part 107, Microdrones has released an exciting promotional offer: 60 acres of free post-processing to anyone who e-mails the Microdrones team a commercial mapping or surveying...
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How drones protect animals

Animal counting UAVs Forget about binoculars and clipboard, transposed digits and staring into space: now drones spring into action! In science, UAVs are increasingly being used as animal counters....
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"High time for the drone"

Microdrones was guest commentator at an expert round in the German Bundestag. Our former CEO Sven Juerss reported about versatile uses of drones.
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TÜV Nord: Wind Turbine in Focus of md4-1000

With a height of 67m a Vestas V66 wind turbine is located in the wind park Neuenbrook, about 50Km from Hamburg. Two Quadrocopter type md4-1000 are equipped with different camera systems, a SONY Alpha...
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md4-1000: Guarding Angel Of Gas Field

A Microdrones-based inspection system has begun its trial flights to inspect pipelines in an inspection-unfriendly terrain in China.
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md4-1000 Desilting And Removing Dangers In Huaping

A mission for Microdrones in China: UAV / drone desilting and removing dangers in Huaping. The authorities of the Yunnan province, China, used a md4-1000 for quick analysis of a debris flow disaster.
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md4-1000 in Emergency Surveying And Mapping in Guizhou Mountains

The Municipal Survey & Design Institute for Water Resources and Hydropower in Guizhou Province deployed their md4-1000 in an emergency surveying and mapping task.
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Scouts Above The Treetops

The Thuringian Hainich National Park is famous for its extensive beech forests. Microdrones UAVs are now to show what condition the trees are really in.
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Rescue In All Realms

ICARUS is perhaps the biggest project for UAV-assisted rescue and unmanned search operations currently running on the continent – in which Microdrones play an important role.
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Autonomous UAV Landing With A Ground-Based Infrared Stereo Vision System

How can Microdrones safely land in unknown territories and areas without GPS signal? Staff of the University of Hamburg, Germany, and the National University of Defense Technology, China, have...
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AUV Surveillance in Earthquake-Stricken Cangyuan

Once a earthquake occurred in the Cangyuan county, China, a md4-1000 was deployed to the stricken area to provide emergency survey and mapping support.
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Positional Quality Assessment Of Orthophotos Obtained From A md4-1000 Multi-Rotor UAV

In this study the University of Cordoba, Spain, explored the positional quality of orthophotos obtained by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). A md4-1000 multi-rotor UAV was used to obtain images using...
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Creating an Orthophoto Map and 3D Model Using a md4-1000

3Dsurvey is a team of experienced land surveyors and devoted computer vision specialists. Combining an md4-1000 equipped with a laser scanner and their geodesy software tool "3Dsurvey" they created a...