DIY Drones is a sponsor of the AUVSI Silicon Valley one-day meeting at NASA Ames this Friday (Jan 8), focusing on UAV use for fires and other emergency response. We get a free guest pass as a result, which I'll give to the first person who asks for it in the comments below (you must be a US Citizen or permanent resident, due to NASA rules).
Here's the description:
"The Silicon Valley Chapter, AUVSI will conduct a forum on Friday, January 8, 2010 to review and discuss the results of the recent exercise held at the Naval Postgraduate School. The exercise investigated the effect of unmanned vehicles on emergency response to wild fires and was modeled after Basins and Indian fires in California in 2006. The exercise involved Forest Service fire experts, government emergency management officials, local emergency responders and unmanned systems experts. The forum will also delve into the wider applications for unmanned technologies in public safety. AUVSI intends to continue these exercises in the use of unmanned system technology in public safety, and they will announce the topic for the next exercise at the forum. "
You don't have to be a AUVSI member to attend. It's just $15 and you can sign up online here. If you're a US Citizen, you can also show up and pay at the door on the day.
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Also, should the "one-day meeting" link be to here?