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News Source Record

# News Source Record

**L-Ne / Open-source news extract** — Original media coverage of unmanned aerial systems.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection date | 18 June 2015 |
| Platform | Quiet Systems |
| Data label | Open-source news record // LRRK collection product |
| Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. |
| Scale | Local |
| Language | English |
| Terms matched | UAS; unmanned aircraft systems; unmanned aircraft |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | Grand Forks Herald (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| Title | UND postpones decision on UAS engineering research |
| Dateline | Grand Forks, North Dakota |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.newspapers.com/image/1135788702/?terms=UAS |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2015-06-18|grand-forks-herald|und-uas-engineering-compliance |
| Source grade | A1 |

## Pictures

- page A1: 2015-06-18-grand-forks-herald-und-uas-engineering-page.jpg
- clips folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vXHLTJaJN6V5eWhhGKAB_ObEa0zYttcd

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — A1]** Brandi Jewett of the Grand Forks Herald reported that a University of North Dakota committee is holding off on approving an unmanned aircraft systems research project that would explore evaluating engineering projects from the air in Walsh County. Members of the university’s UAS Research Compliance Committee want answers to questions on a project application submitted by the Northern Plains UAS Test Site and KLJ Engineering. The test site works with companies to research potential uses of unmanned aircraft and their integration into commercial airspace. As proposed, test-site and KLJ personnel would fly two types of unmanned aircraft over bridge, water-drainage and flood-diversion projects and record images of the sites. “The test site has a client that wants to fly UAS to evaluate their use in inspecting engineering projects,” said Chris Theisen, director of research, development, test and evaluation for the test site. “Much of this is a data collection effort to gather sensor imagery.” The image data would be used to develop engineering software tools. Jump, page A5.

**Kinematic object.** Two unnamed UAS types proposed for civil infrastructure inspection (Walsh County bridges, drainage, flood diversion) under Northern Plains UAS Test Site / KLJ.

**Coverage frame.** industry / research compliance

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original: Grand Forks Herald staff byline (Brandi Jewett) on the local UND compliance hold.
- Wire reprint status: Staff-written. Not AP/Reuters/McClatchy.
- OCR / image-page caveats: Tesseract on A1 crop. Hed, byline, Walsh County, test-site/KLJ, Theisen quote, and two-type flight plan locked. A5 jump not extracted this pass (prior CDN 429 on full-page download; A1 recovered via cropped bands).
- What was excluded: UND nickname poll package and the Welch/Shaw trial teaser.

## LRRK relevance

Watch / Lab. A Watch desk would have logged a university compliance hold on a civil inspection UAS flight box over Walsh County infrastructure.

*LRRK — security assurance for systems that sense, move, and act.*

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