While military and official government and scientific uses of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, are well known and heavily covered, the implications of drone technology for commerce of all kinds is also being recognized and planned for. This book explores both the near-term and longer-term imagined uses for drones in e-commerce shipping, logistics, and delivery mechanisms, mining, agriculture, and a slew of other industries. Readers will surely find the big picture of the development of drones into integral parts of the economy, along with specific examples, to be endlessly fascinating.

Delving into philosophical discussions about the implications of drone technology, Andy Miah delivers in this book a comprehensive analysis of the wide-reaching applications of drones, as well as a critical interrogation of the social, cultural, and moral issues that they provoke.

David Busch's DJI Mavic Air 2/2S Guide to Drone Photography is your comprehensive resource and reference guide to capturing high quality photographic still images and high-definition video with the DJI Mavic Air 2 and Air 2S aircraft. These affordable, easy-to-fly Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) are taking off all over the United States and worldwide. Photo and video enthusiasts as young as 16 can capture compelling images and video for personal use, social media, and YouTube channels. The first model-specific guide for the Mavic Air 2/ 2S from David Busch, the world’s #1 selling camera guide author, this book will lead you through registration, pre-flight prep and mastery of every feature in a concise, fun, and straightforward way. Filled with detailed how-to steps, full-color illustrations, and links to informative example video clips, David Busch's DJI Mavic Air 2/2S Guide to Drone Photography covers the drones’ capabilities in depth, from understanding the FAA rules and regulations, to taking your first photos and videos. You’ll learn how to perform basic aerial moves and use the Air 2/2S built-in flight tools, including QuickShots, MasterShots, Focus Track, and panoramas. With best-selling photographer and mentor David Busch as your guide, you'll quickly have full creative mastery of your drone’s capabilities, whether you're shooting on the job, as an advanced enthusiast, or are just out for fun. Start building your knowledge and confidence with the DJI Mavic Air 2 and Air 2s today.

This book focuses on the global landscape in which insurance is transacted, and where it is evolving, driven from within by transformative technologies and externally by the necessity to address risks like climate change and health crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. It discusses the dynamic challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for the industry in areas such as on-demand insurance, embedded insurance, parametric insurance, autonomous vehicles, the rise of fintech, the cyber risk landscape and through initiatives driven by distributed ledger technology or blockchain solutions. Moreover, it covers the major external challenges confronting the global insurance market, such as the growing insurance protection gap in relation to the affordability and insurability of natural catastrophes and climate change, and pandemics like COVID-19. This book examines innovations in insurance driven by the industry as well as externally imposed changes and dynamics impacting the industry. It describes these changes, the industry’s responses and the legal framework in which they occur. It canvasses additional regulatory and law reform initiatives that may be necessary to achieve an effective balance between the various competing interests. The book is the first to address these matters holistically with a particular focus upon insurance law, it will describe these changes and industry responses and the legal framework in which they occur. The Global Insurance Market will be directly relevant to legal professionals, insurers, insurtechs, fintechs, brokers, CEOs of insurance companies, risk managers, legal counsel, academics, researchers, the judiciary, and policy makers. It will also serve as a valuable resource for students of all levels.

The lure of big data and analytics has produced new partnerships between news media and social media and consequently a fragmentation of digital journalism. The era is coupled with the rise in fake news and controversial data sharing. However, creative mobile reporting and civilian drones set new standards for journalist during the European asylum seeker crisis. Yet the focus on data and remote cloud servers continues to dominate online news and journalism, alongside new semantic models for data personalization. News tags that define concepts within a news story to assist search, are now monetized abstractions in accelerated data processing that enables automation and feeds advertising. Can journalism compete with this by defining its own concepts with ethical values named and embedded in algorithms? Can machines make sense of the world in the same way as a traditional journalist? In this book, Cate Dowd analyzes the tasks and ethics of journalists and questions how intelligent machines could simulate ethical human behaviors to better understand the dizzy post-human world of online data. Looking to digital journalism and multi-platform news media, from studios and integrated media systems to mobile reporting in the field, Dowd assesses how data and digital technology has impacted on journalism over the past decade. Dowd's research is informed by in-depth participation with investigative journalists, including images drawn and annotated by industry experts to present key journalism concepts, priorities, and values. Chapters explore approaches for the elicitation of vocabulary for journalism and design methods to embed values and ethics into algorithms for the era of automation and big data. Digital Journalism, Drones, and Automation provides insights into the lasting values of journalism processes and equips readers interested in entering or understanding online data and news media with much needed context and wisdom.