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As a professional photogrammetry software, Pix4Dmapper Pro can easily handle multiple cameras in one project processing or for project merging. We commonly recommend our users to execute grid flights with nadir images for digital surface models (DSMs) and ortho mosaics, and double-grid or circular flights with oblique images for 3D modeling. Now we would also like […]

DSNA Services and Aveillant are pleased to announce a partnership to develop a complete counter-drone surveillance solution capable of detection, identification, and tracking within a radius of 5 kilometres. This alliance is the marriage of both vision and agility; combining innovative technology with customer-centric operational expertise. After launching a successful proof of concept in June […]

Providing the Industry’s First Night Flight Operations and Waiver Lessons Today, UAVGroundSchool.com announced the addition of two new modules to their acclaimed FAA Part 107 online training program. The new Night Flight Operations and Waivers modules are the industries first detailed lessons in any Part 107 curriculum. These lesson modules, available to all Gold Seal […]

At the World ATM Congress 2017, Thales announces the launch of ECOsystem UTM, an advanced solution for Unmanned Aerial System Traffic Management (UTM), built with key technology from partner Unifly. Joining forces to satisfy the growing need for UTM, the companies will leverage Thales’s unparalleled expertise in air traffic management, system integration and cyber security […]

NVIDIA today unveiled the NVIDIA® Jetson™ TX2, a credit card-sized platform that delivers AI computing at the edge — opening the door to powerfully intelligent factory robots, commercial drones and smart cameras for AI cities. Jetson TX2 offers twice the performance of its predecessor, or it can run at more than twice the power efficiency, while […]

Kelvin Hughes is delighted to announce that it will be launching its new drone detection system at the Home Office Security & Policing exhibition. The SMS-D is the first integrated, medium-range, radar-based surveillance system designed for the detection and tracking of small aerial targets. Whether used maliciously or just irresponsibly, drones represent a new threat […]

Deveron UAS Corp. (CSE:DVR), a major drone-based data provider to the agricultural industry in North America, is pleased to announce a multi-year commitment to working with Thompsons Ltd. to provide leading-edge remote sensing data solutions to its growers. The contract is expected to run through 2018. Thompsons Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of US-based Lansing Trade […]

John Deere and Kespry today announced an exclusive global strategic alliance through which John Deere Construction & Forestry dealers will provide the Kespry Aerial Intelligence System to their customers on job sites around the world. Starting in North America, the alliance enables John Deere customers to use Kespry’s fully integrated industrial drone platform to capture […]

A full DSTW that passed quickly. I will describe what happened here; there are links to events in the timeline in the comments section of the video. Zack Clark, Drone America, and their long distance drone delivery flight and cloud seeding by drone. Drone America set a new long-distance record for aerial package delivery flying […]

Filmmakers are always looking for a new way to tell a story, and drones with cameras provide an advanced perspective never seen before, with breathtaking views and new vantage points. We’ve seen them flying in fleets at the Super Bowl, capturing close-up views of performers, and granting audiences a chance to watch as if they’re […]

DJI, the world’s leading maker of unmanned aerial vehicles, Monday released a white paper concluding the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) set its weight standard far too low for determining which drones pose the lowest risk to people. While the FAA’s 2015 Registration Task Force (RTF) said drones weighing up to 250 grams posed the […]

Silent Falcon™ UAS Technologies is pleased to announce Precision Vectors Aerial Inc. of Vancouver, BC, has chosen the Silent Falcon UAS as their exclusive UAS for their BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) unmanned aerial services business in Canada and the United States. Precision Vectors will use Silent Falcon exclusively in BVLOS UAS services focusing […]

Before the introduction of small UAVs for aerial photogrammetry, planes, helicopters and metric cameras were used. Not only was this costly, it was also complex due to the images being taken from high altitudes. UAVs have made aerial mapping more affordable, faster and precise. When it comes to planning survey missions for small UAVs, UgCS […]

Two days and two chances to look at Drone No Fly Zone maps. This time a Luton based DJI Mavic owner bumps up against a DJI No Fly Zone around London Luton Airport, and the Mavic wants to auto-land in response. A positive thing, the technology worked, well done DJI. The operator was flying to film […]

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Phase 1 of the 2017 Student UAS Competition is complete. A judging panel, comprised of Canadian subject matter experts has completed its independent review of the technical papers submitted by all 16 teams. This year’s wildlife monitoring scenario will task the teams to census and locate nests of three different types of geese in the […]

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — North Dakota’s first drone flight training academy launched its online Remote Pilot Ground School Course today. SkySkopes Academy offers a self-paced, comprehensive course designed to give students the knowledge needed to pass the Federal Aviation Administration exam required for to receive their remote pilot certificate under Part 107. The course is […]

Flying Cross Aerial Productions, a Texas based aerial camera company specializing in the use of sUAS (drones) for motion picture and television productions, has received waiver #107W-2016-00357A from the FAA allowing the operation its sUAS when visibility and cloud clearances are below the minimums set forth in the Federal Aviation Regulations. Currently, drones cannot legally […]

This one is being misreported in the UK press not only is it being overplayed but the Chinook was recovering to RAF Benson, not RAF Odiham as is being told. I found the Airprox particularly interesting as the precision approach controller (PAR) was aware of the RPA. It appeared on his or her PAR radar. The […]

The Eli Drone Nest has been developed to provide a new dimension of autonomy to the already operational ELIX-XL multirotor platform. An installed drone nest provides an operational radius of 5km, and a network of drone nests can deliver visual information from a vast area of land. Overlapping operational radiuses mean that the command centre […]

Sharper Shape has recently refocused its strategy and undergone an organizational transition to move towards an international product company. Ilkka Hiidenheimo, born 1960, took the helm of Shaper Shape as the CEO. Hiidenheimo was the founder of Stonesoft Corporation in 1990. He served as CTO until 2004. Between the years 2004 and 2014 he held […]

Tampa, Fl.: Today, 3rd Rock Air, a provider of drone training to both commercial users and hobbyists, announced the rollout of 3 courses in the Tampa area. These courses cover drone flight training, preparation for the required FAA Part 107 knowledge test and business opportunities. Regarding the company’s launch, 3rd Rock Air President, David Cranmer […]

An exciting weekend for Philip Rowse of ProfiCNC, when not making Autopilots for unmanned aircraft he is helping bring an ex-military jump jet back to life. The AVT Harrier is on display at Avalon Airshow this weekend. The aircraft arrived in Australia in June 2015 and was transported to Ballarat, Victoria to the Advanced VTOL Technologies […]

What are the effects of the “angle between images” setting in circular missions when it comes to 3D reconstruction? Knowing which drone flight plan to design for 3D modelling can be challenging, but the good news is that Pix4Dcapture has automatic flight missions optimised for different scenarios. We tested circular missions with three image angle […]

ConsortiQ, have announced it is now an Approved Training Centre, able to award the ProQual Level 3 Certificate and Level 4 Diploma in The Remote Piloting of Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Commercial Operation. It is now the first Training Centre of it’s kind to offer an Aviation Regulator approved and Academically recognised drone qualification in […]

Canadian Hydro-Québec subsidiary MIR Innovation (Maintenance, Inspection and Robotics), has developed a device that can lift a sensor and land it on an energised power line. The Linecore sensor and multirotor that took it there balance on and test the line as they roll along it. Power lines exposed to coastal environments and extreme weather wear out, quickly. […]

The ALPHA 800 is the evolution of the SNIPER and includes all the developments and improvements of the last year and a half of extensive work of research, development and innovation. Improvements apply to all the systems in the helicopter from the mechanics to the electronics on board or available payloads. In the airframe, the […]

Huntsville, AL – GeoCue Group is pleased to announce the latest release of LP360. LP360 is the world’s most powerful and popular desktop exploitation software for point cloud data from LIDAR and SfM (Structure from Motion, point clouds produced from small unmanned aerial systems imagery). LP360 is available as a standalone application and as an […]

Master Airscrew (MAS), has officially released its advanced FPV Racing Propeller Series for intermediate and expert drone pilots. The new product line is manufactured in the company’s factory in Rancho Cordova and is already available to customers. The MAS FPV Racing props come in two flavors: – RS Series – combines distinctive bat wing like shape […]

UMS Skeldar AG, a joint venture between Swiss based UMS Aero AG and Sweden based Saab AB (publ.), is a leading international co-orporation specialized in developing innovative flying robots’ technologies for aircrafts and helicopters RPAS (Remotely Piloted Air Systems). The high-tech company focuses on the production and distribution of small and medium sized RPAS on […]

A unique, lightweight tethered flying camera system. Made for professional use cases like inspections, inventory control, incident, evidence, security patrol assistance, roof inspection, plant inspection & maintenance, live broadcasting, …. And many other applications. Intuitive & Easy Control •Flies like a kite •No piloting skills necessary •Go up to 25m – inside & outside •Guide […]

SLANTRANGE, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation, drone-based remote sensing and analytics systems for agriculture, announced today the release of their new 3p multispectral sensor system for agriculture drones. The 3p is built on the Qualcomm® Snapdragon FlightTM drone platform, a highly optimized platform for drones and robotics applications, providing the 3p with one of […]

Sentera today announced its ability to convert a DJI Mavic ™ drone into a precision scouting tool that collects TrueNDVI™ crop health data. The ultra-lightweight, super-precise Sentera NDVI Single Sensor is integrated onto the pocket-sized Mavic drone, featuring one of DJI’s most sophisticated flying cameras ever. In a single flight, visual-band RGB, near-infrared (NIR) and […]

I do not consider myself a drone business expert, and might not be a drone business oracle either. But that does not stop others professing knowledge so why should it stop me! Having followed and written about the unmanned aircraft world for almost ten years, I feel I have a finer tuned sense of what […]

Harris Corporation has received a two-year grant to help develop a first-of-its-kind solution to enable beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) operations for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Representatives from Harris and North Dakota announced a partnership agreement today to create the first UAS network in the nation to provide a full range of aviation-grade services for safe and efficient […]

ArcticShark – a groundbreaking new unmanned aerial system designed to collect the world’s most sophisticated atmospheric data in the Arctic – will undergo flight testing at Pendleton UAS Test Range. Testing began February 27. To be owned by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and managed by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility, a […]

xCraft is looking for a Community Manger to continue to build a strong relationship between ourselves and our customers. The Community Manager will be required to help establish a strong Social Media presence, lay the foundation for the customer service department and help guide our community through a discussion forum. A strong technical aptitude is […]

Airspace integration and management solutions for drones continue to garner new investment, but most options are based on fairytale scenarios and raise more questions than answers. I’ve been doing research on the commercial drone industry since early 2012, and it never ceases to amaze me how much hype there is. A week doesn’t go by […]

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (March 1, 2017) – Today, VStar Systems Inc., a privately held aerospace and defense systems company, announced the successful flight test of its modular Signal Intelligence Sensor, MA-C/lite, aboard the Martin UAV V-Bat aircraft. Over the duration of 35 minutes at an altitude of 400 feet above ground level, MA-C/lite collected signals […]

The world’s first-choice producer of mapping drones, senseFly, has signed a commercial agreement with leading agricultural data gathering, processing, and analytics provider, MicaSense, which enables senseFly and its distribution partners to offer MicaSense’s Atlas cloud processing platform alongside eBee drones. By making MicaSense Atlas available with senseFly’s eBee drone platforms—all of which are compatible with […]

Siemens is collaborating with US-based company SkySpecs to deploy automated drone technology for onshore and offshore wind turbine inspections. The goal of the collaboration is to develop a push-button inspection system that is faster, repeatable and more efficient than existing methods. Siemens is involving its Wind Power business and its next47 venture unit, which was […]

Congratulations to the Ardupilot.org project. On February 27th they were selected as a participating 2017 Google Summer of Code organisation. Sponsored by Google, GSOC is a unique program matching open source organizations and students interested in participating in open source development. Spend your summer break writing code and learning about open source development while earning […]

Major industrial adoption of drones is set to surge forward with an education partnership between Australian-based cloud platform Propeller Aero and Australia’s leading drone pilot training organisation, UAVAIR. Industries want to use drones. They can see drones will save them time and money, reduce risk and serve them with better data – they just don’t […]

A busy drone stuff this week (DSTW) that over ran and I blame Bruce from RC Model Reviews. We talk, regulations (as ever), power-lines, detailed maps touch on the new Matrice and quadcopter patents. This is how it played out. Bruce Simpson fought with and won in a war over words with the Civil Aviation […]

Draganfly Innovations is proud to announce that they have signed an agreement with SureFire LLC to integrate and test their LED technology as a complete system with Draganfly’s UAV’s. With both companies deeply rooted in serving the public safety space for decades, it is a natural progression to combine Draganfly’s drone technology with SureFire’s superior […]

In order to explore how to better expand and improve their services, French photography and photogrammetry-based service provider Unautregard teamed up with Planète Sports & Loisirs and 3D Arcwest, to capture, 3D model, and 3D print the ruins of the Abbey of Chateliers and the church of Ars-en-Ré: two cultural heritage icons of the Île […]

Wingcopter, a German manufacturer of the fully autonomous Wingcopter tiltrotor VTOL and finalist in the 2017 Drones for Good competition, have partnered with UAVenture to deliver a complete UAS for professional applications with their commercial flight control platform, AirRails. The Wingcopter is a universal all electric composite tiltrotor aircraft capable of carrying and operating a […]

The SF Drone School is not new, but the bolt on the Research Center is. Treasure Island has for a long time been the unofficial Silicon Valley drone proving grounds. Continuing in that tradition, Werner von Stein, Reiner Von Weber and I will work together to build out a repeatable validation process for testing and […]

xCraft is the fastest growing drone manufacturer in the Northwest. Our mission and your future job is to build, develop, and design powerful flying machines. We are looking for a rockstar software engineer with excellent design and electrical engineering skills who has the ability to learn quickly and adapt to the ever-changing environment. This person […]

In the case of losing control of a drone, certain emergency systems are necessary to avoid the destruction of the drone and furthermore to minimise the danger for objects and human beings on the ground. Just recently, Meteomatics received a new US-patent from the United States Patent and Trademark office for an innovative alternative to […]