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!! NEW !! Latest SEAWATCH Video
Project SEAWATCH: Autonomous coastal drone AI monitoring collaborative project between UAVAid and Archangel Imaging, with the support of UKRI Future Flight Challenge co-funding.
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...
And now for something completely different: UAVaid maps a Cornish golf course
As part of UAVaid's welcoming of new drone mapping capabilities to its fleet, Feb 2023 saw the team map the beautiful St. Austell Golf Course in Cornwall, England. The site is an 18 hole, 6,042 yard par 69 parkland course with wonderful countryside views, designed...
UAVaid Partners UKAid For Reforestation Innovation
UAVaid partners to innovate and develop drone technology for reforestation monitoring and verification.
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...
HANSARD Flies In Sierra Leone
UAVAID HANSARD UAV DRONE flies in Sierra Leone.
UAVaid and Archangel Sign Co-operation Agreement to Integrate AI into Drones
UAVaid and artificial intelligence (AI) specialist Archangel Imaging have signed an MOU of cooperation for integrating advanced AI capabilities into unmanned aircraft. The strategic partnership will support the development of technologies integrating edge-based...