UAS 2011 Latin America

Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) activities are constantly growing in Latin America.

There are ongoing UAS developments (civil & military) in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.

There are currently UAS operations (civil and/or military) 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.

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 for Latin American industry 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 + the abstracts of the presentations to be given, is posted on www.uas2011-latin-america.org