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Tracking, operator registration need for commercial UAS

21st October 2015 - 15:42 GMT | by Richard Thomas in London

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UK and US experts believe more needs to be done in order to effectively integrate UAS operations into commercial airspace.

Policy and regulation dominated discussions during the second day of The Commercial UAV Show in London. 

Parimal Kopardekar, manager of next-gen concepts and technology development at NASA’s Ames Research Centre, said he expected the use and proliferation of unmanned systems would continue and the challenge would be how to adapt policy to meet the demand.

‘My personal view is that every family will have a drone and every home will work as an aerodrome, so how do you accommodate that?’

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