With a desert climate and an average annual rainfall of just 100 millimetres, the UAE is funding a number of research projects to bring rain from the sky. A team of researchers at the University of Reading in England will begin testing drones that would fly into the clouds and generate rainfall from the clouds using electrical pulses, near Dubai, CNN reported.
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Two companies have teamed up to spray water using drones – the smart method uses 10 litres of water per hectare, while tractors use 250. Corteva AgriScience and Brazilian company Arpac have jointly developed an efficient drone water spraying system. The new system is extremely promising, as the drone uses 10 litres of water per hectare using the spray method, compared to an average of 250 litres per hectare for a tractor.
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For most people, two basic uses of drones come to mind first: military drones and aerial photography with drones. It was the former that gave rise to the term drone itself, which was named after the unmanned aerial vehicles that were initially used only for surveillance and reconnaissance purposes, after bees without stingers.
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Many of the parcel delivery drones of the future are expected to handle parcels weighing up to five kilograms, which would allow small, standardised UAVs to take over a large percentage of the deliveries currently made by ground vehicles. But will heavier packages be left to slower traditional truck and van deliveries?
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ABB’s drone flies through the pipelines and uses sensors to check for leaks. If there’s one job that seems designed for a drone, it’s checking for leaks in miles of winding pipelines. A lightweight drone equipped with sensitive sensors can accurately identify where a leak in the system has broken a seal in one quick flight, and the maintenance team can always go straight to where they need to work, no need to search for the fault along the pipes, no need to break through vegetation, no need to trample farmland to take measurements.
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Wingcopter has taken a big step forward in the field of parcel delivery drones, with the German manufacturer preparing to launch a drone that can deliver three parcels to three different destinations in one flight.