Sunday, December 21, 2014

Teller penguins and icebergs – Dagens Næringsliv

This drone can fly in gale in 30 minus degrees from Oslo to Milan with 15 kg equipment. It counts penguins in Antarctica and icebergs in Greenland. Now the even tougher mission trip.

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In a laboratory in the research park in Tromsø stands small and large drones – unmanned aerial – up along walls and ceilings. In mid ‘Cryowing Explorer “-” Cold Wing “- three feet long with a wingspan of five meters. The drone has just returned from Antarctica, where it charted in November population of penguins. Earlier this year, it flew between Narvik and Hammerfest to measure out new pathways for the big power line Statnett will build in the north. At Greenland counted “Cold Wing” number pups in the West Ice, and it has previously surveyed deglaciation of Greenland and run traces quads in protected areas by the Lyngen Alps in Troms. The drone can fly 1600 km, equivalent distance Oslo Milan, without landing. Now drone upgraded to even tougher assignment.



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