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UAV concept to aid Rural Fire Service
Jun 9 2008, Taylor Flatt

The FireEye, pictured here with its creator Owen Bawden, was created for the Rural Fire Service. It is a UAV (unmanned air vehicle) that they can use to fly over fires and forests and brush that have sparked up into a fire. This tool is going to be...

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