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UAV ground control station (GCS) is a land- or sea-based control centre that provides the facilities for human control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or "drones"). [1] It may also refer to a system for controlling rockets within or above the atmosphere , but this is typically described as a Mission Control Centre .
The drone command post has been up and running for more than a week now. Ocean County Sheriff Drone Pilot Alex Trust poses with one of the county’s drones. J.C. Rice
The modern concept of U.S. military UAVs is to have the various aircraft systems work together in support of personnel on the ground. The integration scheme is described in terms of a "Tier" system and is used by military planners to designate the various individual aircraft elements in an overall usage plan for integrated operations.
The Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System (ARES) was a concept for an unmanned VTOL flight module that can transport various payloads. The concept started as the TX ( Transformer ) in 2009 for a terrain-independent transportation system centered on a ground vehicle that could be configured into a VTOL air vehicle and carry four troops.
A post shared on social media purportedly shows a man taking down a drone seen in New Jersey recently. Verdict: False The video is months old. Fact Check: Drone sightings have continued for ...
ARGUS is an advanced camera system that uses hundreds of cellphone cameras in a mosaic to video- and auto-track every moving object within a 15 square mile area. [ 1 ] ARGUS is a form of wide-area persistent surveillance system that allows for one camera to provide such detailed video that users can collect "pattern-of-life" data and track ...
UAVs, more commonly identified as drones, are small aircraft or balloons that can be controlled in a remote manner by a radio control/RF module or using intelligent on-board systems that make the drone autonomous, simply cooperating with the network infrastructure and without human interaction. [10]
UAVs are used by a broad range of military forces, from Argentina [12] to the US and also by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).. As of January 2014, the U.S. military operated 7,362 RQ-11B Ravens; 145 AeroVironment RQ-12A Wasps; 1,137 AeroVironment RQ-20A Pumas; 306 RQ-16 T-Hawk small UAS; 246 Predators and MQ-1C Grey Eagles; 126 MQ-9 Reapers; 491 RQ-7 Shadows and 33 RQ-4 Global Hawk ...