How can drones help Australia fight bushfires? And what are the obstacles to be overcome before it becomes reality? Picture this. It’s a summer evening in Australia. A dry lightning storm is about to ...

Strategic Analysis Australia Director Peter Jennings says Australia is the “only advanced military” which does not have “armed drones”. There are growing calls for restraint as the world ...

Tree kangaroos, which live high up in the tall rainforest trees of New Guinea and Australia, are usually very hard to spot from the ground. But thermal drones, which detect animals from their body ...

In November 2024, Emmeline Norris, a Ph.D. student at James Cook University in Australia and the study’s lead author, was flying thermal drones from atop a 47-meter (154-feet) crane located in ...