The Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) activities are constantly growing in Latin America. There are ongoing developments (civil & military) in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. UAS operations (civil and/or military) are currently taking place in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.Amongst others, UAS are being used for flare stack inspection, illegal fishery patrol, agricultural applications, police applications (illegal landing strip detection, anti-drug traffic patrol, and illegal mining activity detection), aerial photography, as well as regular military applications.
It is within this context, that UVS International, Paris, France and DCA-BR, Sao José dos Campos, Brazil have teamed to co-organize, within the framework of UVS International’s Global Access Initiative, the UAS Latin America 2011 conference & exhibition in Sao José dos Campos (SP), Brazil on 25-27 October 2011. The following are among the objectives of this conference:
- Bring the Latin American UAS community [industry, users, operators, regulatory authorities (civil & military), academia] together;
- Permit this community to communicate on their current and upcoming developments and activities;
- Discuss the problems relative to inserting UAS in non-segregated airspace;
- Expose the ongoing UAS-related regulatory activities at international level, as well as various national levels;
- Inform on ongoing standards work outside of Latin America and discuss the possibilities, and interest, for the Latin American UAS industry to participate in these activities;
- Discuss operational experience and lessons learned;
- Act as a forum to establish relations with suppliers of UAS-related products and services from outside Latin America.
The complete UAS Latin America 2011 conference programme, including all speakers’ bios & photos, as well as the abstracts of the presentations to be given, is now posted onwww.uas2011-latin-america.org All indicated speakers are confirmed.
All additional information pertaining to this event, including conference registration, exhibition & sponsorship opportunities, can be found on www.uas2011-latin-america.org
The UAS Latin America 2011 conference will be the largest UAS event ever having taken place in Latin America (41 presentations given by experts from 15 countries):
- Governmental entities: 9
- Regulatory authorities: 4
- Research organizations: 3
- Standards organizations: 2
- Industry: 21
- Academia: 2
This event will be the meeting place for the Latin American UAS community and should not be missed.