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New powers for police to address illegal and unsafe use of drones

this post originally appeared : href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-transport">Department for Transport, Civil Aviation Authority, Innovate UK, and Baroness Sugg CBE Part of:Aviation and airportsPublished:26 November 2017

New safety laws to help put the UK at the forefront of drone technology development.

Police are set to be given powers to prevent the unsafe or criminal use of drones as part of a new package of legislation.

The measures are intended to allow drone users to continue flying safely and legally, helping to place the UK at the forefront of the fast-growing drone industry. This will also pave the way for the devices to be harnessed for a range of uses by businesses and public services.

Baroness Sugg with PhD students — Aviation Minister, Baroness Sugg meets PhD students working on drone technology at the Aerial Robotics Lab at Imperial College, London.

Researchers map New Zealand landslides with satellites, drones, helicopters, hiking boots

This post originally appeared on http://phys.org/news/2016-12-zealand-landslides-satellites-drones-helicopters.html.

A University of Michigan-led team of geologists and engineers is mapping surface ruptures and some of the tens of thousands of landslides triggered by last month’s magnitude-7.8 earthquake in New Zealand.

The U-M-led team includes a researcher from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Working in collaboration with scientists from New Zealand’s GNS Science and the U.S. Geological Survey, they will combine observations collected by satellites, drones, helicopters and on foot to create what is expected to be the largest inventory of earthquake-triggered landslides, according to team leader and U-M geologist Marin Clark.

The high-resolution digital topographic maps the researchers create will help response teams in New Zealand determine which landslides pose the greatest threat for future sliding and for river damming that can lead to catastrophic flooding. The project is also viewed as a training exercise for future large earthquakes anticipated in places like Southern California.

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