Commercialisation of new applications for light unmanned aircraft

寻求市场资金证明，以评估为民用客户开发和提供小型无人机（SUA）新服务的商业可行性。SUA是CAA（民航局）分类涵盖重量小于7公斤的飞机，对它们在英国领空的操作要求最低限度的管制。这需要研究量化市场需要什么或将来可能需要什么;评估和评价能够满足这些要求的新兴技术和潜在技术，并了解这些飞行器必须在其中运行的可能的监管和法律的框架。所有这三项都是企业提供专业和商业服务所必需的。有良好的指标表明，民用SUA市场正在全球范围内增长。在英国，SUA目前的用途主要是作为视频和娱乐市场的平台，在工业调查和公共服务角色（如警察）中也有一些用途。这些产品的长期商业可行性仍不确定。行业和用户社区提出了更多新颖的应用程序和服务，例如：能够携带不同的有效载荷，如红外，雷达，空气质量嗅探器，噪音监测，更多的机载智能操作，以允许和“感知和避免”，实现移交，在特定条件下的规避机动，更广泛地用于灾害管理，然而，这些都不太可能看到商业运作，而sucraft的发展在很大程度上是不协调的，并留给供应商推动，因为没有人知道这方面的市场我们相信，无论是在英国还是在全球，SUA服务都有巨大的潜在市场，适合民用专业市场。但这需要持续和协调的市场营销和研发，这就是这个项目的目的

Proof of market funding is sought for assessing the commercial viability of developing andoffering new services with Small Unmanned Aircraft (SUA) for civilian customers.SUA is a CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) classification covering aircraft weighing less than7Kg and requiring minimal regulations over their operations in UK airspace.This requires research to quantify what the market wants or is likely to want in future; toassessand evaluate emerging and latent technologies that can meet these requirements; and tounderstand the likely regulatory and legal framework that these craft will have to operate in.All three are needed in order to for businesses to offer professional and commercial gradeservices.There are good indicators that the the market for SUA for civilian applications is growingglobally. In the UK, current use of SUAs is mainly as platforms for video and photographyfor the leisure market with some use in industrial survey and public service roles such as thepolice. The long term commercial viability of these is still uncertain. Industry and the usercommunity propose more novel applications and services such as: ability to carry differentpayloads such as IR, radar, air quality sniffers, noise monitoring, more autonomousoperations with on board intelligence to allow and ‘sense-and-avoid’, enable handover,evasive manoeuvre under specific conditions, wider use in disaster management, monitoringland use and other applications.However none of these are likely to see commercial operations while developments of suchcraft are largely uncoordinated and left to the vendors to drive forward as no one is sure whatthe market for this segment is likely to be.We believe there is a huge potential market both in the UK and globally for SUA servicessuited for the civilian professional market. But this requires sustained and coordinatedmarketing and R & Deffort, which is the purpose of this project