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Lincoln lacked drones that give new view of old battles
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Filmmakers like the unmanned aerial vehicles for providing an informative vantage point.
But Civil War reenactors say that they detract from the authenticity of their efforts.
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Upending the basin: drone count
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You’ve heard of the annual Audubon bird count. Now you can take part in a drone count. Not the bees – the unmanned aircraft. Here at Great Lakes Echo we’ve been running a series of stories about the use and potential of unmanned aerial vehicles. If nothing else, we’ve discovered that no one seems to have a clue of how many of these things are out there.
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Unmanned aircraft program lends students unique opportunities
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The U.S. government isn’t expected to open airspace for civilian unmanned drone flight until 2015.
But Northwestern Michigan College students can fly drones today.
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Researchers determine turf health with drones
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Michigan State University officials hope to collaborate with a landscape services company to use unmanned aerial vehicles to determine turf health.
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Echo newsroom adds fleet of planes, drones and satellites
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Seeking the high ground: Two new Echo features and another longstanding one produce a different sort of environmental journalism.
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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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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.
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Unmanned aircraft business takes off
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Flint area man and his son shoot promotional video with remotely operated drone aircraft.
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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.