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UAS Regulations

The new drone page is here: http://www.gcaa-gy.org/drones.html . This excellent information page provided detials under the following topics:

Drone Registration
Drone Operations
Aerial Surveillance
Drone Safety
4 Simple Step of Applying for a Drone Permit
Aerial Surveillance using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Operating a Drone
Share the air - Drone Safety

THE CIVIL AVIATION REGULATIONS- PART XVI- UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM OPERATIONS (2018) are here:
http://www.gcaa-gy.org/pdf/Civil-Aviation-Regulations-Part-XVI-Unmanned-Aerial-Systems-Operations.pdf

[LATEST UPDATE: May 2020, David Guerin]

Last update / 13.01.2022

Drone use in ecology

Building capacity to use drones for mapping:

Since 2017, the Cobra Collective has been working with members of the Rupununi Wildlife Research Unit to map the precise location of the hydrological link between the Amazon and Essequibo basins... in the Rupununi Wetlands of Guyana, enabling the development of one of the most aquatically biodiverse regions in the world, with over 400 fish species identified so far.

The mapping will help support appropriate development and conservation of these biodiverse rich wetlands, while at the same time provide a new insight into South American aquatic biogeography.

In collaboration with 3DXR, one of the UK’s most innovative drone
development and manufacturing enterprises, we have developed and deployed a low-cost, long-range, fixed-wing drone which is able to fly autonomously for up to 2 hours and over 100 km while taking over 1000 high-resolution images per mission.

The Cobra Collective is building further capacity in drone surveying, construction and maintenance in order to establish an autonomous Indigenous drone survey unit in Guyana that can support environmental monitoring within the Rupununi Wetlands and beyond.

Several Indigenous team members are now suitably trained.

The Cobra Collective May 2020 Final Report is here: https://cobracollective.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/WWF_Cobra-Collective-Report_May2020_Final.pdf
Details: Client: World Wildlife Fund; Project:Eco-hydrological Assessment of the North Rupununi Wetlands; Report: Monitoring and Assessment.

[Last updated by Macayle Guerin: January 2022]