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UAVaid's latest developments and activities.

UAVaid Inks MOU With I-Conic Vision for Real Time Disaster Mapping

PRESS RELEASE: UAVAID and I-CONIC Announce Groundbreaking Technology Partnership for To Speed Up Disaster Assessment LONDON and STOCKHOLM – 23 November 2023 In a significant stride towards speeding up the emergency response to large-scale disasters and global...

UKRI Publishes SeaWatch Video

Delighted to be able to announce that UK Research and Innovation have prepared and launched an outline video about Project SEAWATCH.  The project is a collaboration between UAVaid and Archangel Imaging to develop a coastal monitoring capability for improving Safety At...

Published: Project SeaWatch video

UAVaid and Archangel Imaging are delighted to announce the launch of a brief video outlining Project Seawatch.  SeaWatch is a collaborative project blending drones and AI for coastal safety-at-sea and fisheries protection applications in the UK and internationally....

MP Derek Thomas meets Project SeaWatch

Derek Thomas MP visited the Project SeaWatch team (UAVaid and Archangel Imaging) while technical testing at Predannack Airfield in Cornwall, for a briefing on the coastal monitoring innovation project.  Representing the largely coastal parliamentary constituency of St...

Drones Raison D’être: Overcoming Terrible Roads

Have you experienced this for yourself ? During UAVaid's deployment to rural Sierra Leone, May 2023, the team witnessed first hand the challenges posed by inadequate road infrastructure in remote and rural areas.  It brought into sharp focus the value that drones can...

UAVaid Receives HANSARD UK Flight Permissions From UK CAA

GOOD NEWS !!! UAVaid has received permission for the HANSARD drone to fly in UK airspace, from the UK Civil Aviation Authority. The application process was led by UAVaid co-founder, James Ronen, and required the development and preparation of extensive and detailed...

Mansofinia Mapping – Permissions and Flights in 1.5hrs

May 2023.  Seizing the opportunity of a few hours of remaining daylight at the end of a busy day of drone mapping in eastern Sierra Leone for Project SAPLING, the UAVaid drone team mapped the community of Mansofinia.  This remote community lies south east of the Loma...

Sierra Leone Elections Gold Command Briefing

Ahead of the June 2023 General Election in Sierra Leone, UAVaid's Daniel Ronen briefed the Sierra Leone Police Gold Command on recent developments in drone technology, capabilities and issues relating to the operational use of modern drones.  The briefing was given in...

UAVaid Expands Drone Services in West Africa

December 2022, UAVaid has inaugurated an extended range of drone services in Sierra Leone, conducting a series of new light surveillance and aerial monitoring flights near the capital, Freetown. Using a rapid-deployable quadcopter drone, these inaugural photographic...

Death of Queen Elizabeth II

  Together with the rest of the nation and people throughout the world we mourn the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. She was our longest-ever reigning monarch and a constant source of stability and strength. With her tireless devotion to service, she was the...

UAVaid Consortium Announce NATEP Funding Award

A consortium formed of Archangel Imaging, UAVaid and Novit AI, today announced the successful award of a share of £2.5m of development funding from the National Aerospace Technology Exploitation Programme (NATEP) and formal start of PROJECT GENIE, a 12-month programme...

UAVaid Awarded Share of £73m Future Flight Challenge Funding

UAVaid and Archangel Imaging are delighted to announce the launch of Project SEAWATCH, with funding awarded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through the Future Flight Challenge Phase 3 programme. Project SEAWATCH will develop the critical technology for a new...

UAVaid Briefs Sierra Leone High Commissioner

UAVaid co-founder Daniel Ronen was honoured to be invited to the Sierra Leone High Commission in London and brief HE Morie Komba Manyeh, Sierra Leone High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, on the opportunities and progress being made implementing drones in the West...