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Dear Sundar, We believe that Google should not be in the business of war. Therefore we ask that Project Maven be cancelled, and that Google draft, publicize and enforce a clear policy stating that neither Google nor its contractors will ever build warfare technology. Google is implementing Project Maven, a customized AI surveillance engine that […]

Martin UAV has successfully completed flight demonstrations in India for the Indian Army. Over the last 2 weeks, Martin UAV’s innovative V-BAT aircraft flew in operational test scenarios in both mountainous terrain and Jungle environments. Flying both day and night sorties the V-BAT performed exceptionally well in the challenging conditions. Following the demonstrations, Martin UAV […]

What is BVLOS? BVLOS means Beyond Visual Line of Sight operations for drones. BVLOS is the natural progression for commercial drone operations, but before it can take off the FAA will need to make it safe, so until then everyone is in a holding pattern. The limitation to Visual Line of Sight (VLOS) or Extended […]

Today we’re really excited to announce an important change to our pricing. When we first set up as a provider of drone training in the UK, the landscape was sparse; the choice was limited. This didn’t stop us innovating though. We rapidly established ourselves as one of the UK’s leading CAA-approved training providers. More than […]

Paul Riemens, CEO of the RAI Amsterdam convention centre, has launched the ‘Amsterdam City of Drones’ initiative in parallel with this week’s Commercial UAV Expo Europe. “RAI Amsterdam aims to be more than an event organiser in this context,” says Riemens. “Our goal is to provide a platform for knowledge, contacts and innovation as we […]

Gilles Labossière, the Executive Vice President and COO of Parrot Group, will focus on further boosting senseFly’s growth and leveraging its professional expertise across Parrot’s wider Business Solutions group Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland, April 12, 2018: senseFly, the industry’s leading provider of professional mapping drones and a commercial drone subsidiary of Parrot Group, today confirmed the appointment […]

Partnership unites two leading companies, enhancing and expanding drone forensic capabilities globally Stockholm: April 12, 2018 – MSAB, the global leader in mobile forensics solutions, today announced that the company has partnered with URSA Inc., expanding tremendously on its’ drone forensic capabilities. URSA’s Idetic™ Unmanned tools are designed to collect, integrate, analyze, and present UAV related data. The […]

DroneShield Ltd (the “Company” or “DroneShield”), a leader in the emerging industry of drone security solutions, is pleased to announce that the Fort Worth Police Department has today confirmed that DroneShield’s products were utilised by the Texas State Department of Public Safety, the Denton County Sheriff, the Fort Worth Police Department, the Texas Forest Service, and […]

Ubisense Group plc (AIM:UBI),a global leader in enterprise intelligence solutions, is today announcing a partnership with pioneers of autonomy and creators of innovative aviation software products, MRO Drone, to offer the world’s first ‘Smart Hangar’ solution, combining automated aircraft inspection with automated tool and asset management to improve efficiency and increase productivity for MROs. Developed […]

Small Unmanned Business Systems Business Exposition attendees and guests of Epson can come out to Treasure Island on April 26th and get a first hand Epson MOVERIO BT-300 FPV smart glasses and app demonstration between 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. As part of the ongoing collaboration with global drone leader DJI, Epson, providers of the […]

5 projects address strategic needs of regions in talent development, infrastructure development and commercialization that will create higher-paying jobs RICHMOND – Governor Ralph Northam today announced five regional projects funded through GO Virginia (Growth and Opportunity for Virginia) grants totaling $1,115,300. Key members of the Governor’s cabinet, the General Assembly and the business community approved […]

Paper Open access published in Remote Sensing on April 10, 2018. Authors: Ana I. de Castro, Francisco M. Jiménez-Brenes, Jorge Torres-Sánchez, José M. Peña, Irene Borra-Serrano and Francisca López-Granados This study was carried out by researchers from the imaPing group (www.ias.csic.es/imaping) led by Dr. Francisca López-Granados of the Institute of Sustainable Agriculture of Cordoba (IAS-CSIC), […]

Sentera announces the availability of high-fidelity crop stand, weed pressure mapping, spot scouting maps, and free local image stitching within the Sentera FieldAgent™ platform. These valuable, field edge tools are available today to all FieldAgent customers using high-resolution crop imagery. The new FieldAgent analytics help ag professionals leverage early season data for replant decisions, manage […]

Dropcopter, a pollination UAS startup secured $250,000 from Syracuse New York based GENIUS NY accelerator. Their pollination drone service is the first in the world to use automated multirotors to dust almonds, pistachios and cherries, boosting crop set by as much as a tested 15%! They’re offering the service as a much-needed alternative to expensive […]

Michael J. Logan NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA Jay Gundlach FlightHouse Engineering, Portland Oregon Thomas L. Vranas National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA There is an increasing demand for capable and affordable small UAS for a variety of potential mission applications. Some of these applications would notionally require significant improvements in the level of […]

Drone deliveries, drone inspections and even autonomous flying taxis are near term realities, and to make these services safe and efficient ICAO has begun the consultative work needed to establish low-altitude traffic management guidance for domestic unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Recognizing that an agreed global approach will greatly assist businesses and others in launching their […]

Tools dedicated to precision agriculture help farmers and agronomists optimise the ROI of their crops and improve their daily productivity. This high precision and analysis enable farming experts to make well-informed decisions efficiently. Parrot has recently developed Parrot Sequoia+, a new generation of its multispectral sensor that allows you to automatically calibrate multispectral images using […]

Australian sensor video analytics provider Sentient Vision is at Sea Air Space 2018 to showcase its “game-changing” ViDAR optical radar system, which gives tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) the ability to cover up to 80 times more ocean in a single sortie than the same UAS equipped with existing EO/IR systems. Exhibiting on stand 1500, […]

The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation is proud to announce the 11th annual VEX Robotics World Championship, presented by the Northrop Grumman Foundation. Taking place April 25 – May 1, 2018 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, KY, the week-long event celebrates the world’s best builders, programmers and creative problem-solvers in competitive robotics. […]

AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for both defence and commercial applications, today announced the successful maritime demonstration of a Puma™-Switchblade® automated sensor-to-shooter (S2S) capability from a US Navy Coastal Riverine Craft for increased mission autonomy to counter threats. The tightly integrated walk-on/walk-off system uses existing RQ-20B Puma Block […]

UK commercial drone leader to provide VAPOR series in latest addition to growing range. COPTRZ, the UK’s leading commercial drone solution provider, has announced it has put pen to paper on a new agreement with Pulse Aerospace, the commercial drone manufacturer which produces the VAPOR range of helicopter UAS. COPTRZ will become the official UK […]

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is pleased to announce the recent award of a $81M Foreign Military Sales contract by the US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center for the United Kingdom (UK) MQ-9B PROTECTOR unmanned aircraft system programme. This contract provides for integration and component level testing for UK specific enhancements to support the […]

This year’s event will again consist of two separate competitions. Both contests are grounded in challenges our Aerial and Aquatic Robotic Research Group frequently encounters; responding to unfolding natural disasters. One need not be armed with the most powerful, research-grade drones to make a difference when it comes the initial response to a disaster (see our work on the […]

Skyfire Consulting, an Atlanta-based public safety drone consultancy, is partnering with equipment giant W.S. Darley and Co. to give away a complete drone program to a public safety agency. The program, valued at over $25-thousand, will include equipment, training and FAA authorizations for the winning department. “This is everything an agency needs to start a professional and […]

The IRIS ground control station will provide a seamless workflow allowing drone operators to manage, view, store and retrieve multiple video streams from multiple simultaneous drones. Ottawa, CA: Kongsberg Geospatial, an Ottawa-based geospatial visualisation software company, and SURVAE, a video and data mapping technology company based in Wilmington, NC, announced today that they have integrated […]

Who doesn’t love a good shakedown? Well, usually the person or group getting shaken down (the shakee) unless of course, they are unaware that they’re getting shaken down. That is where we are today, and it is okay if you are because a good shakedown artist doesn’t let on to the mark that they’ve been […]

QuestUAV welcomed Paul Reynolds of Aardvark LLP to their head office this week to hand pick his new drone fleet. QuestUAV and Aardvark are about to embark on mapping the world’s largest construction site in Kazakhstan. QuestUAV already have a good connection with Kazakhstan after many years supplying drones and having a hands-on approach there […]

ASOG, is a first of its kind global professional aircrew network that was established in 2017 to fill a professional void regarding those aircrew individuals who operate remote-sensors from a manned or unmanned aircraft, is pleased to announce the recent release of it’s first professional guide – The ASO Professional Standards Guide. There are […]

AMA’s number one priority is the safety of our nation’s skies. Through Section 336, AMA safely manages 200,000 members – as the organization has done for more than eighty years – freeing up scarce FAA resources to advance commercial drone regulations and other priorities. At the same time, AMA lends its safety expertise to the […]

Simon Morris – Altus Intelligence The end of March was a very busy time for the Altus Intelligence crew in Georgia. In the space of 5 days Lidars from two manufacturers had to be mounted and tested to Altus ORC2 electric helicopter systems. Luckily for these customers, this is just the kind of thing we take […]

Parrot, the leading European Drone Group, has appeared for the first time among the list of the top 50 companies based on number of patent submissions in France. With 36 requests to the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), Parrot – which was awarded one of the INPI Trophies of innovation in the “Patents” category […]

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) has set a new endurance record with its Avenger® Extended Range (ER) Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA). On January 24-25, the next-generation Avenger ER flew 23.4 continuous hours in a representative Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) configuration while carrying out a simulated reconnaissance mission. This exceeded the 20-hour flight test goal […]

Today, Yuneec announced the availability of Pix4Dcapture on its H520 ST16S ground station controller. Pix4D is a premier software application that creates professional, georeferenced maps and models from drone imagery, giving users the ability to map flight plans and set customized mapping parameters. Pix4D’s free mission planning app Pix4Dcapture will be pre-installed on all future Yuneec’s H520 […]

#1 – Background to where we are today In the first of a series of articles looking at the drone training industry, we offer a background to the drone training industry and thereafter move over the next series of articles to offer a viewpoint from where we started with drone training to where we are […]

April 5th, 2018 – DJI, the world’s leader in creative camera technology, has updated its Zenmuse X7 camera to support the new ProRes RAW standard from Apple. Enabled through firmware updates, the Zenmuse X7 also gains performance enhancements that deliver improved workflows and image quality. These new features increase the power and efficiency of the […]

Washington D.C. and Silicon Valley, California, April 4, 2018 – The Commercial Drone Alliance, an independent 501c6 non-profit led by key figures of the commercial drone industry, today is calling for Congress to repeal Section 336 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act (FMRA) of 2012. Legislation is necessary now to allow the FAA to properly […]

To further expand market presence in North America, 3W-International is expanding its own direct sales structure in this important target market. With Constantin Diehl, a representative has been acquired who will actively represent the German engine manufacturer in the USA, Canada, and Mexico. “We look forward to having Constantin Diehl, an excellent connoisseur of the […]

The White House has proposed $50 billion trade tariffs against Chinese imports. They may do more harm than good for the American drone industry. From a couple of angles. So many parts of the drone and model aircraft food chain are covered, that it can only drive up the cost for end users. At the […]

The Federal Aviation Administration is looking for a few good suppliers – for the Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC), that is. In October 2017, the FAA deployed LAANC (pronounced “LANCE”) at several air traffic facilities to evaluate how well the prototype system functioned for drone operators who want to fly in controlled airspace and […]

senseFly, the world’s leading producer of professional drone solutions, today announces a new software integration with Trimble, which optimizes the drone mapping workflow for geospatial professionals. The new integration between the company’s software ensures the smoothest possible end-to-end mapping drone (UAS) workflow. senseFly operators can now, within their drone’s recently launched eMotion 3.5 software, transform a senseFly S.O.D.A. camera’s georeferenced imagery into an […]

Recent developments in high-performance sensor technology and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV or drone systems) open an entirely new dimension of remote sensing. The project will focus on the UAV- based data acquisition and interpretation in the context of surface water groundwater interactions. This includes high resolution topographical and hyperspectral data acquisition of streambeds and their […]

Ginger Pinholster Embry-Riddle Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) can help locate missing senior citizens, assess damage after big storms and inspect crops, but drones can also pose safety risks if they collide with people. Rotor Shield LLC, an incubator firm affiliated with Embry-Riddle’s John Mica Engineering and Aerospace Innovation Complex (MicaPlex), has designed patent-pending technology to advance the […]

Due to the overwhelming success of the first edition, we are already organising DroneClash 2. On 27 November 2018 we will be part of the Amsterdam Drone Week in the RAI in Amsterdam. DroneClash and Amsterdam Drone Week fit together well, showing the world that the Netherlands is at the forefront of all drone technology. […]

One of the most exciting evolving niches within unmanned aircraft systems and personal aerial vehicles is that of hybrid Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft, which provide a middle ground between the efficiency of fixed-wing aircraft and the practicality of multicopter aircraft. Designing VTOL aircraft poses unique engineering challenges because of the opposing design requirements […]

Alongside the SkyStar aerostat systems, RT’s subsidiary, Aero-T, will present its SkyGuard1 large aerostat system DefExpo 2018, Hall 1, Booth 1.1 5E The Israeli-based aerostat company RT LTA Systems Ltd. will present its SkyStar family of aerostats, which includes the Skystar 110, SkyStar 180 and SkyStar 330, at DefExpo 2018, Chennai, India. Alongside the SkyStar […]

San Francisco, Ca. April 1, 2018 — Kittyhawk, the leader in enterprise drone operations software, today announced their foray into the world of drone hardware. The Kittyhawk Log Book® provides enterprises a new and scalable way to take their drone program from one pilot to half-a-dozen or more. “Over the past few years, we’ve started […]

Aireon announced today the fifth successful launch and deployment of its space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) payloads, hosted by the Iridium® NEXT satellite constellation. At 7:13:51 AM PDT (14:13:51 UTC), a flight-proven SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, bringing the total number of Aireon payloads in orbit to 50. […]

AgEagle Aerial Systems, an aerial drone imagery collection and analytics company, has closed its merger transaction with EnerJex Resources, pursuant to which AgEagle becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of EnerJex Resources, Inc. EnerJex will be renamed AgEagle Aerial Systems and will begin trading on March 27th on NYSE American under the ticker symbol UAVS. In addition, […]

UMS SKELDAR, the world-class provider of rotary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) solutions, has launched a recruitment drive at its twin design, production and testing facilities in Sweden and Switzerland. Now in its second year, the joint venture between Saab and UMS AERO has announced an ambitious business growth strategy, led by the flagship SKELDAR V-200, […]

In the Borey-10 unmanned fixed-wing aircraft, UAVOS has implemented a number of design features that enhance reliability and simplicity of operations. Rechargeable LiIon cell-based batteries assembled in-house, a hermetic casing of the autopilot, the minimum number of units and components significantly reduces the probability of an accident and extends the operational life of the aircraft. […]