He is making a difference; a tree at a time – every tree makes accounts Born and raised in rural Uganda, on the edge of an abundant forest, Kabiito always felt a strong connection with the trees/forest surrounding his home. Growing up, these multi-species mighty trees played a vital role for him, his family and…
On 17th November at Space53 facilities SPECTORS partner met for the fist general assembly after one year from the kick-off. Every group presented the work done and shared informations, idea, experiences and feedback about the year. Here is possible to see some of the pictures taken during the event, photographer Marcello Tania.
Hyperspectral cameras are very powerful sensors already widely used on satellites such as NASA EO-1 with its hyperspectral instrument Hyperion. The characteristics of this sensor are multiple; every pixel of every image taken contains the continuous radiance spectrum over a certain range of wavelengths, which means different values define the single pixel, achieving huge amount…
Twente University is hosting a workshop for drones enthusiasts which would like to know more about them and recent technological updates: on 2. November , during Grant Week organized by OostNL, UT, Saxion, “Drones for future” will take place on behalf of Space53 and UT from 14.00 to 15:30 at the university Gallery. State-of-art will…
On 19th October 2017 there is gonna be an open ventureclass at Twente University (NL) about drones and business. The program and the event is in dutch and for more information just follow this link.
During September SPECTORS had a seminar of 5 days based on the video-lectures offered by the Technical University of Munich (TUM), EdX course, on basic concepts for autonomous navigation of quadrotors: the idea behind was that we are a group of people focusing on very different topics between each other and we needed to gain…
UASweekly.com published this week an article about how drones can help during emergencies when conventional first-aid can’t be fast enough due to ground conditions, distance, lack of available personnel. An example is the HiRO (Health Integrated Rescue Operations), telemedical Drone Project, presented at OMED ’17 (Osteopathic Medical Education Conference). Latest environmental disasters showed the need…
This weekend in Berlin there is gonna be a international Exhibition and different organized workshops about Drones: DroneBerlin and SPECTORS is going. The workshop schedule is full of interesting activities and covers the whole two days: Germany is present with the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Helmholtz Institute of Freiberg and Chemnitz University of Technology. Different are…
On 29. August Harm Bartholomeus and Marcello Novani from Wageningen University did some flights with drones provided with sensors in Haus Riswick, Landwirtschaftskammer of NRW property. The grass plots have been fertilized with different Nitrogen sources and amounts and the trial is performed in order to evaluate differences between the different plots. Not only drones…
One of the topics in which SPECTORS is active is drone positioning, with staff involved in developing and testing optical positioning systems that may be effectively implemented on drones. To give a general idea to whom is not familiar with the topic, positioning systems are needed on drones in order to be able to determine…
