UAVs In Ag: Research and private industry develop uses for unmanned aerial vehicles

摘要

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), better known as drones, have been used by the military for years, but soon domestic industries will also have the ability to use this technology. While the Federal Aviation Administration continues to work out the rulesand regulations that will be used to govern UAVs in the private sector, companies that offer the technology are finding private industry partners to determine how it could be of benefit. Such was the case recently that brought a UAV company together with peanut researchers. And it was Roderick Gilbert, with the Georgia Agriculture Innovation Center in Tifton, who worked to create the collaboration between this new private industry and university researchers.