Mapping the future with unmanned aircraft: Nick Miller explores the feasibility of unmanned aircraft for surveying tasks from the ASTRAEA programme. GEO: connexion | February 1, 2009| | COPYRIGHT 2009 Bev-AL Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

For previous generations, the ability to survey land from an aerial perspective was an unreachable ambition. Many dreamt of flight, but it wasn't until the 18th Century that this actually became a human reality when people were able to take to the skies for the first time. Later developments during the last century saw aircraft created that could fly for longer periods of time and eventually photograph and survey the land beneath. Yet, remarkable as these developments have been, they have limitations.

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