UAVs Will Study Californian Smog

Roland Piquepaille writes "The California Energy Commission is funding a research effort named CAPPS, short for California AUAV Air Pollution Profiling Study. CAPPS will use autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (AUAVs) to gather meteorological data as the aircraft fly through clouds over Southern California. The goal is to study smog and its consequences as well as better understand the sources of air pollution. The first flights started in April 2008 and data collection will continue until January 2009. But read more for additional references and photos of these autonomous unmanned aircraft."

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And cue the tinfoil hat crowd

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I can just hear them now:

"This is not for researching pollution! They are secretly equipped with spy gadgets to watch everyone! They even have guns to secretly kill people!"