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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...
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md4-1000 Based Dronlife Nominated for "UAE Drones For Good Award"

md4-1000 based Dronlife, a project to urgently delivery human transplant organs, was nominated for the international competition of the 1st "UAE Drones for Good Award".
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Westfalen Post

The Flying Robot from Siegen (German)
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Documenting And Monitoring A Landslide Using An UAV

Following severe rainfall of over 200mm from 31 May to the morning of 2 June 2013 in Howald, east of Kaltbrunn in Switzerland, a large area of forest started to slip. The length of the main slide was...
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Microdrones Parcelcopter Enters Regular Service For DHL

Deutsche Post DHL’s parcelcopter project has entered its next phase, with Microdrones’ special copter going into regular service from the town of Norden in North Germany to the North Sea island of...
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Belgian Rescue Teams Use Microdrones in Disaster Areas

Airborne support in the search for survivors and land mines: in the wake of a natural disaster in Serbia/Bosnia and Herzegovina, rescue teams have been using German-made drones. This past May,...
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Belgian Rescue Teams Deploy Microdrones In Disaster Areas

Airborne support in the search for survivors and landmines: in the wake of a natural disaster this past May in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, rescue teams have been using German-made drones.
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Drone-based Monitoring of Boulder Beaches in Galicia, Spain

Low altitude flights by a microdrone were made in 2012 and 2013 over two boulder beaches in north-western Spain. Geographical information system software was used to map the data. Boulder outlines...
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Applanix And Microdrones evelop Industry Solution For Real-Time Georeferencing

Turn your unmanned aerialvehicle into a professional mapping solution with Applanix and Microdrones.
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Die Rheinpfalz

Scouts over the Tops (German Newspaper Article)
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MYVAN - powered by Mercedes Benz

And action! A Sprinter 2500 Van as mobile command center for Microdrones
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Microdrones In Test Flight For DHL

The market leading international logistics concern DHL has used a Microdrones md4-1000 for the first time to deliver a parcel.
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Unmanned Microdrones UAV Crosses The Alps

Siegen, 13th June 2013. On Wednesday morning, a Microdrones md4-1000 achieved something which no other quadrocopter had done before: equipped with a HD camera, in adverse conditions it crossed the...
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European Commission Strategy for Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS)

The development of drones (RPAS or Unmanned Aircraft Systems) started in the 50’s and matured rapidly in recent years in the military context. Drones are now entering the civil market, opening a...
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Test For High Voltage Interference

Microdrones in test lab for high voltage interference at Dresden Technical University.
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Aerial 3D Scanning With md4-1000

The use of so-called micro unmanned aerial vehicles (MUAV) as sensor devices is risisng steadily – in both the scientific and civil areas.
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DLR: Kontas Bench Testing For Certifying Components For Parabolic Trough Power Stations

Qfly (flying camera) for measuring parabolic trough collectors.