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Volume 3 #9: September2012
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Greetings!
Each month, we bring you a few news stories that illustrate how aerial data acquisition (ADA) services enhanced, or could have enhanced, an organization's ability to achieve its goals, with a specific focus on events in your industry.
A new feature this month is an "Update on UAVs," which brings a variety of news stories reporting on the technology and status of the FAA's acceptance of these aircraft in the national airspace, a topic of particular interest in these markets.
Our goal is to share information with you about how ADA services offer significant benefit and value when implemented in a timely manner and as part of your organization's overall operational strategy.
If you find an example that relates to your organization's mission, please call to discuss how we can begin to establish a plan that addresses your aerial imagery needs.
Thanks for your continued interest.
Carolyn Abbott, Director of Marketing Communications
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TODAY'S CHALLENGES & THE ADA SOLUTION
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U.S. Southern Border
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High-quality aerial imagery provides an invaluable third dimensional perspective that can help public safety officials -- homeland security, law enforcement, emergency response -- respond quickly to unexpected events requiring rapid assessment for situational awareness and fast,
effective decision making.
Read here about how ASSIST-U.S. ADA services can support your organization's aerial information goals.
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HOMELAND SECURITY IN THE NEWS
Ships that have called on ports in Yemen face security restrictions in U.S., Government Security News, 9/4/12. "The U.S. Coast Guard has announced that, effective Sept. 18, vessels that have visited a port in Yemen during its last five port calls cannot visit the United States unless they comply with certain tighter security measures. As such, Yemen becomes the sixteenth nation facing such restrictions on their entry into the U.S., says a Federal Register notice published by the Coast Guard on Sept. 4." More ... |
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LAW ENFORCEMENT IN THE NEWS
| BANGOR, ME--Man killed self days before he was to testify about pot farm, Bangor Daily News, 9/28/12. "The massive pot plantation was found after a tip was left on the Maine State Police Troop J website, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a press release issued Monday. When police flew a plane over the site, people on the ground set fire to several buildings being used as dormitories before the suspected growers fled. When the marijuana operation was discovered, Maine Drug Enforcement Agency officials characterized the size, scope and detail of the operation as quite surprising. They said the plants - many of them 8 feet tall and highly cultivated - were of extremely high quality. More ...
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UPDATE ON UAVs
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"Are You Ready for Civilian Drones?", Emergency Management Magazine, 8/30/12. "Commercial and civilian drones are already here - even if they're not supposed to be." More ... Police chiefs adopt drone code of conduct, The Washington Times, 8/16/12. "The nation's police chiefs have adopted a code of conduct for their use of drones, including letting any images captured by unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, be open to inspection by the public, and that the images not be stored unless they are evidence of a crime or part of an ongoing investigation." More ... Manned planes beating drones as the more capable tool in war on drugs, Homeland Security Newswire, 8/10/12. "In the never-ending war on drugs, U.S. Navy planes are showing that technology does not necessarily mean improvement, as manned planes are outmaneuvering unmanned drones in catching cocaine smugglers traveling by sea; in 2011 the manned planes caught an average of $30 million of cocaine per day, and during the last five years they have detected more than 853,000 pounds of cocaine." More ... CBP's Predator UAV Use Raises More Questions, Answers Elusive, Security Debrief, 3/22/11. "The AP story broke as I was attending a conference at MIT's Lincoln Labs on Homeland Security technology R&D. Among the fascinating presentations, the one on wide-area surveillance technologies in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill caught my attention. .. The scientists from Lincoln Labs did an after action analysis that showed the least effective platform for wide area surveillance was a tethered airship (which is logical, given that it was tethered to a specific location.) Close behind in its lack of effectiveness was CBP's Predator UAV. Frankly, I was stunned at this finding." More ...
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ABOUT US ...
ASSIST-U.S.® specializes in providing Aerial Data Acquisition (ADA), surveillance and analysis services to public and private sector organizations throughout the Northeast and along the Eastern Seaboard.
If you know others in your organization or industry who would be interested in what we do, please use the "Forward email" link at the bottom of this page.
Contact us to receive a data sheet that explains our ADA services for your industry in greater detail: info@assist-us.com.
Visit our website to view our solutions here. Our managers' blogs contain articles of interest, as well. Download our company capabilities brief here.
Use our YouTube channel, LinkedIn group and Facebook page to view our real-time video portfolio and learn how we can support your needs for enhanced visual information through aerial imagery services.
  
I look forward to hearing from you to discuss how we might serve your organization's needs. Please contact me to schedule a facility visit or a demonstration of any of our standard aerial data acquisition services (see below).
Sincerely,
Carolyn Abbott, Director of Marketing Communications
603-219-0922, x107 | info@assist-us.com
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| Our Services |
Customized Missions: Using leading-edge technologies to provide cost-effective aerial imagery solutions from a unique, flyover perspective that meet your needs.
Aerial Imagery Acquisition: Recording and streaming your imagery directly to your chosen devices or locations, archiving it for future analysis based on your requirements.
Analysis and Archiving: Analyzing your recorded and/or archived imagery with its critical, embedded information to deliver the post-flight results and reports you need.Training and Consulting: Offering aviation professional development training to the public safety and defense contractor communities and consulting to prospects and clients to ensure they understand the full range of available aerial imagery platform options.
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Copyright © 2012 by Aerial Surveillance, Security & Intelligence Systems Technologies-U.S., LLC. All rights reserved. ASSIST-U.S. is the registered trademark of Aerial Surveillance, Security & Intelligence Systems Technologies-U.S., LLC.
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