UavInTheNews

Civilian use of UAV in Africa
In terms of our legislation aircraft that are experimental may be used in the sky. The moment you sell the aircraft it is not experimental anymore. Some ruse or scheme will have to be used so that the person providing commercial support to our FrontingCompany is not implicated. I am certain you can't just place an advert in the newspaper stating that you are selling a commercial UAV service for R8000/month for example. But if you do it for free on an experimental level then all is cosher.

If Japan can allow UAVs in an ordered regulated fashion then Africa with it's vast airspace can do the same. It is just a matter of approaching the government and getting them to amend the law dealing with commercial deployment of UAVs.

Farm patrolling in Africa
From http://www.tacticalaerospacegroup.com/border_patrol.html BR Securing national borders against illegal immigration or smuggling, particularly in rugged or desolate areas, requires constant surveillance of known or suspected zones of activity that may measure hundreds of square miles. TAG UAVs can support border patrol operations by providing a highly flexible aerial surveillance capability. With an operating range in excess of 500 miles, TAG UAVs can patrol known zones of activity for extended periods of time. Equipped with a gyro-stabilized EO/IR imaging system, TAG UAVs can effectively monitor areas of interest in darkness, poor weather and rugged terrain, transmitting real-time intelligence to a ground station via datalink. TAG UAVs can also be used as an airborne repeater station to assist communications with patrol units at extreme range. This is the sort of stuff farmers must organize using a FrontingCompany

Tracking bandits in dense bush
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?rep=2&aid=355491&sid=REG&ssid= BR Nagpur, Feb 20: Unmanned Ariel Vehicle (UAV) is all set to be deployed in eastern Maharashtra to trace the movements of Naxals, a senior police official of Anti-Naxalite Operation (ANO) said today. The UAV over Naxal-infested Gadchiroli district is likely to be operational sometime next week, said inspector general of police, anti-Naxal operations, Pankaj Gupta. Gupta told reporters that UAV's operation in Chattisgarh was quite successful and the authorities have received photo and video images both from cameras fitted in the flying machine. It has traced the movement of Naxalites near the hilly terrain of Abuzmadd in Bastar district which is a virtual den of the outlawed extremists. The images of Naxal training camps, organised in thick and dense forests in Abuzmadd area of Bastar region of Chattisgarh are very clear and reveal a lot of things which the official declined to mention.

Law enforcement using UAVs
The UK police will use http://www.microdrones.com/ UAV fleets http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2007/07/17/215507/uk-home-office-plans-national-police-uav-fleet.html and http://www.merseyside.police.uk/html/news/news/may/cd21-05b-police.htm

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200702/kt2007021913453611950.htm The Los Angeles Police Department is operating a Sky Seer to monitor crime within the city. That UAV has an built-in global positioning system and can stay airborne for 70 minutes, flying at 48 kilometers per hour. Each unit costs $25,000-$30,000.