Links, thoughts and research into using drones, UAVs or remotely piloted vehicles for journalism at the Drone Journalism Lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Journalism and Mass Communications.
The county commissioners say they won’t foot the bill for a crane, and they don’t think the helicopter owner’s suggestion to have someone rappel from a real chopper and snatch the miniature one off is, well, very realistic or worthwhile.
An interesting idea. Could we include fake mass protests in there?
Fox Sports and ESPN are already using them to cover live cricket matches in Australia. Matter of time, this.
I say drone, you say drone. “Drone” has come to mean any aerial vehicle that flies without a person actually sitting in it. But there are di…
More from the FAA’s privacy call-in.
The FAA held a teleconference today to talk about privacy policies around the six UAV test sites they’ve yet to announce. Pepperdine University Law Professor Greg McNeal and EPIC Privacy’s Amie Stepanovich live tweeted the event with their reactions.
A few missing — ahem — but a good list. Rightly focuses on agriculture as a huge potential user.
By Daniel Wheaton
Charles Eide thought he was following all of the rules when he used a drone to take photos of real estate.
He wasn’t. In early February, the Federal Aviation Administration told him to stop.
Eide, along with hundreds of other businesses, are facing the same question: Is it legal to use drones and aerial photography for profit?
It isn’t.
The story itself has a decent back-and-forth about if our laws are or aren’t ready. It’s not so clear cut.
Matthew Schroyer gives a serious answer to yet another snarky blog post about journalists using UAVs to do their work.
