Air
West Michigan video company shoots environment from a drone
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West Michigan company shoots projects as diverse as extreme sports, high end real estate, marketing materials.
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Air
Despite failed bid for FAA test site, Michigan officials see promise in drones
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Minnesota and Ohio are also among the states that unsuccessfully sought the designation to host test sites for drones.
Air
A drone is still a drone by any other name
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We’re always on the look out for innovative stories and reporting techniques at Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism. In a couple weeks we’ll launch a series on civilian applications of drones for gathering information about the environment. I teach a course encompassing remote sensing, including the use of drones, as newsgathering tools. So a story in the print edition of the New York Times, Drones Offer Journalists a Wider View, caught my eye at Monday’s breakfast table. It’s an interesting enough piece about a controversial technology.
Recreation
High tech, AI, boost farm productivity, earnings
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Precision agriculture technology has been evolving over the past decades, and farming has become more productive and efficient with the further implementation of artificial intelligence.
A 2023 study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found only 27% of farms and ranches nationally used such precision agriculture practices, but the rate was around 40% in Michigan.
Echo
Environmental journalism danger commentary
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Reporting on environmental problems and controversies remains a perilous endeavor, as demonstrated by a series of incidents around the globe.
Journalists are physically assaulted, jailed, interrogated by police, kidnapped, fired, sued for libel, harassed and even murdered for seeking to expose environmental crimes
Echo
Michigan tribes fight long odds to restore wild rice, their history
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Rice is in its renaissance now.
Recreation
Michigan’s Magnet Man attracts river trash
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The heaviest thing that he has found is a full-sized safe in the Rouge River in Delray, Michigan, taking seven people with magnets and hooks to pull it out.
Beaches
Beach cleaning robots are coming to Lake Erie
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The BeBots and Pixedrones will be deployed to Olander Park near Toledo, and then Hinckley Reservation, North Coast Harbor, Fairport Harbor Beach of the Cleveland area.
CIGLR
Cornell researchers farm pixels
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While virtual reality grows in the entertainment world, a team of Cornell researchers is using it to prepare farmworkers for hard work. Cornell hopes to collaborate with farms to create a variety of virtual reality spaces for people to visit and learn how to farm. The idea is to document and record the various practices used on a successful farm.
Transportation
Legislature eyes futuristic ‘highway in the sky’
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Although flying cars aren’t currently in the sky, they could be very soon. Michigan legislators have introduced bills that would establish an “Advanced Air Mobility Study Committee” to review current laws that affect the aeronautics industry.