Preston has been named as one of five national drone test centres after joint bid from UCLan and Preston City Council was awarded Nesta’s High Flying Challenge status in partnership with Innovate UK. Over the next five months, the UCLan’s Civic Drone Centre – a partnership between UCLan’s Engineering Innovation Centre and the Media Innovation
Flat-pack UAV platforms, sensors, thermal imaging cameras, pens, paper, scissors and the prestigious 3D-printed Golden Drone trophy: last week saw Digital Media Europe 2016 conference host the first Journalism DroneHack. Organised by the Civic Drone Centre at the University of Central Lancashire and WAN-IFRA’s Global Alliance for Media Innovation (GAMI), and housed in Vienna’s Palace
Last weekend (19th & 20th September 2015) there was a buzz in the air around UClan’s Preston campus as two new drones took to the skies. DroneHack 2.0 is the second in a series of maker events where the Civic Drone Centre is opened up to members of the public to engage with drone technology.
Cutting-edge nano-materials and sector-leading research on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) met today in world-first aeronautic collaboration. Today (September 15th, 2015) saw the first flight of a UAV part-constructed with graphene, a new nano-material that the thinnest material on Earth. The project was a result of a research partnership between the University of Central Lancashire’s College
The use of UAVs (drones) in search and rescue (SAR) operations is not radically new. Our own AeroSee project developed in 2013 developed the potential of crowd sourced search and rescue raising plenty of practical questions along the way. At the core of the project we asked what role crowd sourcing might play in interpreting
Here at the Civic Crone Centre we believe unmanned aerial vehicles could transform life in the field for our medics, our search and rescue professionals, and people working for NGOs and charities delivering aid and food to people hit by natural disasters or caught in conflict situations in some of the world’s most inhospitable and
The Civic Drone Centre is looking for the very brightest and best people to come together on June 12th to design, build and test drone applications that’ll make a difference in the real world and could save the lives of hundreds of people.
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