Excerpts from; UAV non-military market study 2013

Table: UAV Civil transactions 2008-2012

EUROPE
Purpose Date Manufacturer UAV Designation/ Image End user Country
Video game 2011 AR Drone Parrot

Leisure
time
consumers
France
Search-and-rescue 2012 Delta Drone

ski resorts France
Disaster risk reduction,
disaster preparedness,
emergency response,
environmental
assessments
2012 Microdrone Mdb4-200

UNOSTAT United
Nations
tracking sports players 2012 Futurelab

Sports
media
Germany
Traffic enforcement 2011 Microdrone

Saxony
Police
Germany
evaluation of parabolic
trough power plants
2010 Microdrone

D.L.R Germany
Gas pipe inspection 2011 Microdrone

Thyssenga
s
Germany
Purpose Date Manufacturer UAV Designation/ Image End user Country
Narcotic fields detection 2012 Italdro Scrabble 01

Ravenna
Police
Italy
Anti-narcotics operations 2012 Microdrone

Turin
Police
Italy
EEZ patrol. Tender
pending
2012 - Requirement Coast
Guard
Norway
Monitoring agriculture
field yields
2003 CATUAV
Spain

Catalonia
state
Spain
3D Images of Historical
Buildings
2012 University of
Granada

University Spain
Archeological burial sites
mapping
2011 Microdrone

Russian
Archeology
Dept.
Russia
Traffic and urban law
enforcement
2009 Microdrone UK

AR100
Kent Police UK
Fire fighting 2011 Microdrone

MD400
West
Midlands
Fire
Service
UK
small unmanned
helicopter to monitor its
Barrow gas terminals.
2012 Micro Drones
UK

Centrica
Energy
UK




ASIA
Purpose Date Manufacturer
UAV Designation/
Image
End user Country
maritime surveillance,
rescue, police patrol,
traffic control, agriculture
and forestry, air
monitoring, forest fire
prevention, electric power
circuit detection missions
2012 AVIC

U8
Marketed-
Civilian
clients.
China
police locate and track
duties
2011 DRDO

Golden Hawk
Indian
police
India
Counter insurgency 2012 DRDO

Indian
police
India
cloud seeding
surveillance, and
reconnaissance missions
2012
Apeiron
Aerospace

Marketed
India + New
Zealand
Forest survey, Forests
and biodiversity
monitoring
2012 ETH Zurich

Sumatra
Forestry
and Wildlife
Indonesia
Safari video coverage 2011 Microdrone

TBS
Television
Japan
surveying the aftermath of
natural disasters
2009
Kyoto University
and Yamaha
Motor Co.

Civil rescue Japan

Purpose Date Manufacturer
UAV Designation/
Image
End user Country
support Nepal's
anti-poaching efforts and
help detect illegal loggers
in national parks
2012 Hobbyking FPV Raptor

World
Wildlife
Fund
(WWF)
Nepal

AFRICA
Purpose Date Manufacturer
UAV Designation/
Image
End user Country
tracking the movement of
animals and to hunt
poachers in the field
2012 unknown

World Wildlife
Fund (WWF)
Africa
help protect its rhino
population from poachers
2012 unknown

Government Kenya

OCEANIA
Purpose Date Manufacturer
UAV Designation/
Image
End user Country
deliver critical parts to
mines and conduct aerial
surveillance of mine sites
2012 UAV Australia

Mining
companies
Australia
documenting the litter left
or washed up on the
nations beaches, wildlife
conservation
2012 Draganflyer
Scientific predator

Commonwealth
Scientific and
Industrial
Research
Organisation
(CSIRO)
Australia
weed detection trials 2012 Insitu

Queensland
Government
Australia

Purpose Date Manufacturer
UAV Designation/
Image
End user Country
Swimmers watch, life
buoy drop, etc.
2012 Aerobot
Aerobot Ring

Surf Life Saving
Australia
Australia
monitor traffic, perform
search and rescue
operations, or map crime
scenes
2012 DTA
Hawkeye
police
New
Zealand

LAT-AM
Purpose Date Manufacturer
UAV Designation/
Image
End user Country
Law enforcement, counter
narcotics
2012
Considering
acquisition
Unknown police
Trinidad
and
Tobago
Map archaeological sites 2012
Vanderbilt and
Aurora Flight
Services
SUAV

Archaeology Peru

















N.AMERICA
Purpose Date Manufacturer
UAV Designation/
Image
End user Country
photographing crime
scenes' search for
missing persons. tactical
situations, such as
instances where a
suspect is on a roof or
balcony
2012
Aeryon Labs
Inc
Scout mini helicopter

police Canada
designed to reduce the
risk of cargo delivery in
remote and hostile
environments
2007 MMIST
CQ-10A SnowGoose


Disaster relief
teams
Canada
Wild Fire Mapping. 2006
General
Atomics
Aeronautical
Systems, Inc
Altair UAV

FAA, NASA and
the U.S.
Department of
Agricultures
Forest Service
(USDA-FS)
US
studying plant
productivity, monitoring
plant growth stages.
2012 Bormatec
MAJA Unmanned Aircraft
System


Kansas State
University
Department of
Agronomy
US
search-and-rescue
missions, during
accidents and natural
disasters,
2012 Dragonflyer X6

Seattle Police
Department
US

Purpose Date Manufacturer
UAV Designation/
Image
End user Country
Asses Storm Damage on
Power Cables

2012
Insitu,
aerovironment,
and other
unidentified
makers
Electric Power
Research
Institute
US
video of river sediment
newly released by the
removal of Elwha Dam
2012 Aerovironment
Raven

U.S. Geological
Survey, the
federal Bureau
of Land
Management
and the National
Park Service
US
to capture aerial shots for
an upcoming reality show
2012 Quadrocopter
CineStar-8

Laminated
Pictures (movie
company)
US
the CAMCOPTER S-100
achieved the first ever
UAS first flight with the
CINEFLEX camera
2012 Schiebel
Camcopter S-100 with
CINEFLEX camera

Brain Farm
Digital Cinema,
Snaproll Media
US
Firefighting 2012
Dragonfly
Innovations Inc
Draganflyer VTOL

Bellevue Omaha
Fire Department
US

Purpose Date Manufacturer
UAV Designation/
Image
End user Country
monitoring a location
before a drug raid, or
looking for a fleeing
burglary suspect
2012 AeroVironment

North Dakota
Sheriff
US
surveillance missions
over wildfires

2007
Mercury
Computer
Systems
VistaNav-SSR

U.S. Forest
Service
US
to investigate the location
and severity of erosion
along the Missouri River
2012

Aerovironment
and General
Atomics
RQ-11A Raven

MQ-9 Predator


The U.S.
Geological
Survey (USGS)
US