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Airborne unmanned aerial vehicle monitoring station

  • US 9,741,255 B1
  • Filed: 05/28/2015
  • Issued: 08/22/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An unmanned aerial vehicle monitoring system, comprising:

  • an aerial monitoring station (“

    AMS”

    ), the AMS;

    including an airship that maintains the AMS at an altitude above a commercial airspace;

    including a plurality of image capture devices; and

    configured to monitor positions of each of a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles (“

    UAVs”

    ) located within an AMS coverage area;

    wherein, for each of the plurality of UAVs, the AMS is configured to receive respective position information, and the AMS is configured to orient a respective image capture device in a direction indicated by respective position information of a respective one of the plurality of UAVs; and

    a remote computing resource in wireless communication with the AMS.

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