Where the Drone Leads
Drones in Public Safety. FAA Revitalization Act recognizes the value of drones, expressing the Will of Congress thst the FAA move forward in important areas such as Public Safety and Beyond Line of Sight ops. How should we influence this in the most effective way? The host for this episode is Ted Ralston. The guest […]
STEM as the Common Denominator (Where The Drone Leads)
Where the Drone Leads: to the Marshall Islands STEM is like a common, universal language…Drones are arguably the high point of STEM. Thru STEM, global participation can assist resilience in a very remote and threatened location such as Ebeye. The host for this episode is Ted Ralston. The guests for this episode are Mayor Kabua, […]
Leaping into the Future (relatively speaking) (Where The Drone Leads)
FAA Reauthorization Act Defines the Path Forward for Drones FAA Reauthorization Act gives the FAA its guidance from Congress. In its new 5-year lease on life, FAA has been directed to make more major steps forward in managing the emergent world of drones. In fact, one may conclude that drones are being mainstreamed and are […]
Where the Drone Leads – North to Alaska (Where the Drone Leads)
Unmanned Traffic Management – what’s that all about? This week on Where the Drone Leads we’ll be discussing managing drone traffic for safety, efficiency, and service – how are we going to do that? How are we going to introduce drones into disaster management, with the legacy Incident Command System designed before drones became available? […]
Drone Up: New Views on Critical Subjects (Where The Drone Leads)
Exploiting drone technology in Public Service: Safety, Environment, Quality of Life Drones provide a new perspective on our environment, ranging from hurricanes to sunsets. What considerations go into the quality of the imagery necessary to get the most useful results out of this technology? The host for this episode is Ted Ralston. The guests for […]
Sharing The Airspace in Hawaii – Drones and Low Level Aviation (Where The Drone Leads)
Airspace sharing with Drones is coming! Drones and helicopters tend to occupy the same space. We need to see this airspace sharing from both sides and be safe! The host for this episode is Ted Ralston. The guests for this episode are Scott Allen, Eric Lincoln and George Purdy. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the […]
Towards A National Direction (Where The Drone Leads)
AUVSI Xponential…pulling all the strings together. Busy times for Drones as manufacturers scramble to deal with emerging standards and regulations, new user needs, and a high interest in capitalizing on drone capability. AUVSI acts as the sounding board, mixing bowl, advocate, and integrator of this emerging (it will always be emerging!) business. AUVSI Xponential conferences […]
To the Western Pacific islands…again! (Where The Drone Leads)
Informing the Future via New Perspectives. The environmental peril of the COFA islands and how new perspectives such as provided by drones can help expose the situation and inform the future. The host for this episode is Ted Ralston. The guests for this episode are Gregg Nakano, Kayla Ishida and Skye Goedert. ThinkTech Hawaii streams […]
Straight Out of Mathematics! (Where The Drone Leads)
Drones on the inside… all math. The Math of Drones… where did it come from, where is it headed? In what directions do we need to push? How do we get high school students interested? How about the math of Reliability and Safety? Or Complex Adaptive Systems? The host for this episode is Ted Ralston. […]
To a New Wave of Critical Thinking (Where The Drone Leads)
Drone Education – From the Inside Out. Drones are very complex composition of video game, cellphone, RC airplane, and dynamic, rather exotic math executed in low-cost precision manufacturing. This is all hidden when we take the drone out of the box, and generally unaware of in the minds of the users. But the future is […]