Because it was the first one I saw and it was the newest one.
One of the words i had trouble with is Bureau- (an office or department for transacting particular business.) Another word is international-(existing, occurring, or carried on between two or more nations.)
“The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International is a trade group for drone manufacturers and users. It says agriculture could account for 80 percent of all commercial drone use” “With advancements in technology, 3-D images and temperature readings from drones could be tied with other data. The information could give farmers even more information about growing conditions.”
Source 2 states, “Drones can gather information about crops and send updates to sprayers and other farm equipment. They can tell farm machines where to find problem spots. ”
As an agriculture surveyor who is trying to utilize drones to increase the efficiency of the surveying the land for my customers, I would have a lot to consider before starting usage of the drones. Currently, the FFA has been given the power to create federal regulations around the operation of drones, but they have not been clearly defined yet which would make operating drones. Some states and local municipalities have even also created their own statutes in order to keep up with the technology. Due to the fragmented rules governing different areas and a lack of clear regulation from the federal government, operating a drone could open my business up to substantial unforeseen liabilities. I would need to make sure to I have done enough
Today the use of drones has moved beyond military and recreational use and has emerged as a trending topic of conversation within both the private sector, commercial, and military realms (Bowden, 2013). Drone piloting has also become quite the topic of controversy due to military drone pilots taking non-traditional routes to achieve pilot certification. Military application has changed the landscape of foreign policy has augmented our military’s reach across the globe with the use of drones on the battlefield (Cole, 2014). As far as commercial uses drones are now augmented the way we deliver packages and cultivate vast amounts of farm (Senger, 2013). Even surveying of lands has changed with the adaptive technology drones utilize to map land features. The influx of drones in the public and private sector now has the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Recently drones have been seen more and more around the world and maybe it’s because they are easier or the common folk to obtain. A few farmers have been using once only military available drones to keep better track of the water usage in they’re farms. Drones used by these farmers “are using sensors and robotics to bring big data to precision agriculture” (Anderson 1) that data will help farmers use less water and less pest aside improving the environment and the overall quality of the produce available in the market for the consumers.
Our future is intense and frightening, but overall, unpredictable. We will have driverless cars soon in our world. They will overtake our roads and means of transportation. In my opinion, I think there is both good and bad with these driverless cars. There is both pros and cons dealing with this future. This future for cars will reduce drunk driving, reduce traffic jams, and reduce expense on the driver and our planet. The downside however, will come with putting millions out of business. Driverless cars are technology, and technology is not perfect, it sometimes crashes and does not always work the way we want it to. We do know that humanity is not perfect either. Humanity makes mistakes just as much as technology. So in this essay, I will talk about perspective one, perspective two, and perspective three, all talking about how driverless cars are good and bad for the future of our world.
Curiosity in human beings is limitless. For as long as humanity has existed, we have prided ourselves on our discoveries, our inventions, our own ingenuousness. We discovered fire, created the wheel, and harnessed electricity. We made cars go and planes fly, and we acquired a limitless amount of information along the way. And each and every time, we patted ourselves on the back and told ourselves good job. Eventually, we decided that we’d run out of things to discover on our own planet, and we turned our eyes toward the sky. The Final Frontier, we called it, the last step for human discovery. We sent robots, then animals, then people, then even more sophisticated robots and rejoiced when they returned with knowledge and information about the worlds that lay beyond our own. And all the while a second frontier lay unnoticed, hidden in plain sight: the ocean. While
Drones can collect data in a lot of different ways. They can use 3D mapping to analyze soil. They can use this data to decide seed planting patterns, irrigation, and to monitor nitrogen levels. They can also have hyperspectral, multispectral, or thermal sensors to identify which crops are more dry or needs improvements. This data allows for the drone to decide which areas need more attention. By scanning a crop using both visible and near-infrared light, drone-carried devices can identify which plants reflect different amounts of green light and NIR light. This information can produce multispectral images that track changes in plants and indicate their health. A speedy response can save an entire orchard. Distance-measuring equipment—ultrasonic echoing and lasers such as those used in the light-detection and ranging, or LiDAR, method—enables a drone to adjust altitude as the topography and geography vary, and thus avoid collisions. All this data is used through various cameras and imaging to make the drones effective at keeping crops healthy. With such a large amount of data usage and storage comes a large amount of data security concerns. The FBI and USDA believe that cyber attackers might target the farming industry by stealing farm-level data in bulk (information about soil content, past crop yields, planting recommendations, etc.) or destroying it in protest. They have also warned the attacker may encrypt collected data and hold it for ransom (Zorz). If these do
This being said farmers could use drones to fly over their fields and spray pesticide on the crops so that they don’t have to waste their precious time driving all over (Villasenor 2). Many farmers already use drones on their crops, It is widely used in areas where there is so much land that it would takes days or weeks to crop duster all of their plants. The drones make it a much faster job and allows for the farmer to take care of other things such as animals instead of spending weeks on spraying crops. Farmers also wouldn’t have to risk getting ill from being around the pesticide itself. The environmental protection agency could also use it to check for air quality around factories or other environmentally harmful buildings without risking their health (Villasenor 2). Just think of how helpful these drones would have been after the nuclear reactor explosion in Japan. The government would have been able to send in these unmanned vehicles and see the environment and stability of the other reactors, checked the quality of the air to see if humans could survive in that environment, and checked the radiation of the
Self-driving cars are no longer a thought of the future. Companies like Tesla, Mercedes, and BMW have already released, or are soon to release them. Driverless cars were first created in the 1980’s but they didn't use them in real traffic situations until 2013. But recently the driver of a tesla model S electric sedan was killed in an accident while the car was in self driving mode( Jamie L ). Driverless cars may be a neat invention to make driving easier but there are various flaws like hackers, that need to be addressed.
Are drones killing innocent civilians? Drones are a recent development that were made after September 11, 2001, after the World Trade Center travesty. Although drones were made for a reasonable purpose of stopping further terrorism. Drones have caused more trouble than they have stopped.
Awesome post, this really hit home for me as I grew up raising cattle and helping out with my distant family corn farm. The utilization of UAS in agriculture will greatly reduce the cost to raise both crops and animals. On top of that it helps deter the risks associated to the farmer/rancher. For example, after a snow storm most ranchers go out to check on their cattle, this is dangerous as temperatures are still frigid and theres no telling whats beneath the snow. By using a camera equipped UAS, ranchers are able to verify the condition of their herd from the safety of their own homes. I predict that in the near future the majority of those involved in agriculture will utilize UAS. Great post, I look forward to reading more of your input in
In addition, farmers who are subject to working conditions along with the simple nature of human abilities which detract from their ability to inspect a field compared to technology, are eliminated in UAV practices of inspection. The benefit transfers down the line of agriculture when the product the farmer was able to grow has ended up at the grocery store, and by the same means, the support for the drones’ integration is bound to follow.
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) equipped with their respective payloads and sensors are working across a variety of applications on the behalf of our society, environment, and the world at large. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) concluded that approximately 90 percent of commercial UAS growth will be in public safety and agricultural applications (Karpowicz, 2016). As the world’s population continues to grow, farmers are becoming hard pressed to efficiently produce crops while simultaneously meeting demand while overcoming the challenges of successful crop production (Mazur, 2016).
In our ever aging society new ideas are being made each and every day. Autonomous drones are one of these relatively new ideas that could help or turn out to be disastrous. These drones are capable of sifting through hundreds of hours of video very quickly, or help our soldiers survive in the battlefield. This is of course in a perfect world. In the real world autonomous drones have to many unanswered questions. They aren’t held accountable under international law and they don’t have common sense like a soldier would on the battlefield. They could possibly start an unintentional war. They are too risky to be used in warfare and they are too unpredictable to be trusted with the lives of soldiers. This amount of risk has called for a lot of attention by human rights lawyers.
Drone technology is advancing rapidly and it is changing the way in which things are being done. Drones are widely used by many people as a hobby or for career purposes, as well as for military purposes by the United States. Drones provide the U.S military with many benefits, which helps the military to operate efficiently and in a safe manner. Businesses are utilizing this technology as well in order to make their companies run more efficiently, as well as to improve their customer service. Drone technology will positively impact our society; drastically change our culture and political system and definitely advance our economy as well as help enhance our environment.