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A Dam Fine Use of a Drone

August 8, 2016 by Jason Reagan Leave a Comment

A team of researchers from Alabama is developing a dam fine application for drones. University of Alabama-Birmingham doctoral candidate Ali Darwish is leading a project to create customized UAVs that can be used for infrastructure inspection – specifically for dams. “Alabama has 2,100 dams, and only 2 percent are regularly inspected,” Darwish said in a UAB press release. … [Read more...] about A Dam Fine Use of a Drone

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