# News Source Record

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

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection date | 6 March 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 | National |
| Language | English |
| Terms matched | drones; unmanned aerial vehicles; UAVs; unmanned aircraft systems; UAS; remote-piloted aircraft; RPAs; quads |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| Outlet | ABC News (Australia) |
| Title | Drone applications continue to soar, CASA says |
| Dateline | 6 March 2015, 5:34pm, updated 8 March 2015, 12:50pm |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-06/drone-applications-continue-to-soar,-casa-says/6289066 |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2015-03-06|abc-au|casa-200-approved-rpa-operators |
| Source grade | B1 |

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — B1]** ABC reported CASA spokesman Peter Gibson saying about 200 approved remotely piloted aircraft operators existed across Australia, with about 30 applications before the agency at any time, for agriculture, mining, police, fire brigades, aerial photography, survey and mapping. Gibson said Australia was one of the first countries in the world to actually have a set of rules covering and allowing for commercial remotely-piloted-aircraft operations, unlike the United States, the rules having been in place more than 10 years. CSIRO principal research scientist Dr Dave Henry described a 2010-onward project fitting a drone with a thermal camera to locate cattle in Queensland rangelands before mustering. Broome resident Shayne Thomson described recreational quads and a hoped-for coastal-erosion use at Gantheaume Beach, warning others to fly within CASA rules.

**Kinematic object.** Commercial and recreational RPAs / quads in Australia; CSIRO thermal cattle-mustering drone.

**Coverage frame.** regulatory / industry

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original: ABC original with CASA, CSIRO and a Broome recreational operator.
- Wire reprint status: Not a wire reprint.
- What was excluded: Later 2016 CASA standard RPA operating conditions.

## LRRK relevance

Passport / Lab. Mature national commercial-RPA certificate queue versus still-pending U.S. rules.

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

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