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Pix4D is the main provider and industry standard for professional drone photogrammetry software. Pix4D is a dynamic and rapidly expanding company with headquarters in Lausanne and local offices in San Francisco and Shanghai. Pix4D is the only solution providing desktop, cloud, and mobile solution for drone mapping. You can find many professionals describing their use […]

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, have gone in just a few short years from something associated solely with the military to being tested for Amazon Prime delivery, having a starring role in a Super Bowl halftime performance and being used by everyday people for basic flying fun. If there’s been one segment of the […]

What could happen if a drone hit a person on the ground? What’s the risk of serious injury? Can those risks be reduced? Although the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) can’t yet definitively answer those questions, studies by a consortium of leading universities through the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE), have […]

A volcanic archipelago in the Central Pacific of only 11,000 square miles, Hawaii has seen sustained economic growth for the last few years, and a record-breaking pace for the tourism industry. Construction benefits from this growth with an increasing need for infrastructure. Hawaiian Dredging Construction Company (HDCC) is the oldest and largest general contractor in Hawaii. […]

Skeye have signed a GeoXphere Market Partner agreement to use and distribute XCAM in the UK, expanding on their UAV capabilities. We are pleased to announce that Skeye has been appointed the GeoXphere Market Partner for the United Kingdom. They will be leading the capture of aerial photography using the revolutionary XCAM. This complements and […]

We are excited to announce that 3DR has recently raised $53 million in capital as part of our Series D funding round. This round includes both new equity and conversion of debt equity. It was led by Atlantic Bridge, and with investments from the Autodesk Forge Fund, True Ventures, Foundry Group, Mayfield, and a number […]

Matt Fanelli Senior Manager for Strategy at Skyward One of the most staggering statistics that the Federal Aviation Administration revealed at a recent UAS Symposium was that businesses submit more than 3,000 Part 107 waiver requests per week. So it’s no wonder that it can take up to 90 days for requesters to get response—the […]

Today, Sentera announced the release of its Multispectral Double 4K Sensor, offering five precise spectral bands: blue, green, red, red edge, and near-infrared (NIR). This sensor enables users to collect visual band imagery as well as vegetation indices based upon the addition of NIR or Red Edge, including normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and normalized […]

Lockheed Martin’s [NYSE: LMT] advanced tactical Group 3 unmanned aerial system (UAS), Fury, is regularly flying long-range endurance test missions as the company prepares it for low-rate production. In flight tests since May 2016, Fury has flown more than 200 hours and reliably demonstrated more than 12-hour endurance, while simultaneously operating 100 pounds of payloads, […]

If you can identify who flew and disrupted flights at Chengdu airport in April 2017, DJI might give you $145,000. No suprise that this press release does not seem to in English on the DJI site. It is below in all it’s Google translate glory. Some pressure must be being exerted on DJI at home. DJI […]

uAvionix Corporation, the leader in avionics products for small UAS (sUAS) today announced a new line of four integrated Ping transceivers and navigation products reducing weight and installation complexity. The new hardware is available and shipping now to customers worldwide. The Ping2020i, Ping1090i, Ping200Sr and Ping200Si products combine the existing transceiver product line of Ping2020, […]

DJI, the world’s leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, and Hasselblad, the leader in high-quality professional medium format cameras, Tuesday marked the start of the next era of aerial photography by introducing the first 100-megapixel integrated drone imaging platform. The DJI M600 Pro drone, the Ronin-MX gimbal and the Hasselblad H6D-100c camera combine […]

Aireon and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced a successful flight test of space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) technology, collecting ADS-B data to be used as part of a larger validation effort exploring the new system’s capability from low-earth orbit. The flight took place on Thursday, March 30, 2017, utilising the FAA’s specially equipped […]

Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP; TSX: BLDP) announced that the company’s subsidiary, Protonex, has successfully powered test flights of the ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with the Company’s PEM (proton exchange membrane) fuel cell propulsion system. The ScanEagle is manufactured by Insitu (www.insitu.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company. “These test flights have […]

Local organizations will announce a major economic development project involving drones, unmanned vehicles and robotics in Hazard, KY on Monday April 24 at the Hazard Community & Technical College campus at 1:00 p.m. Land has been donated for the “USA Drone Port: National Unmanned Robotic Research and Development Center “for drone research, testing, training, advanced […]

Airware, which provides end-to-end solutions that turn aerial data into actionable business intelligence for enterprises, has signed a global distribution agreement with senseFly, the world’s leading producer of fixed-wing mapping drones, to bring the survey-grade eBee Plus to its enterprise customers. Airware ’s end-to-end solutions for mining, quarrying, and construction sites harness drone technology to […]

Uber announced today that it has selected Aurora Flight Sciences as a partner to develop electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for its Uber Elevate Network. The formal announcement of the initiative partners took place at Uber’s Elevate Summit in Dallas, Texas. “Uber is taking a big step forward toward making the world’s first […]

Since the first sUSB Expo we have been proud to bring you the cutting edge of the drone world and real world applications. Not the least of which has been the Public Safety/Search and Rescue aspect of unmanned aircraft. This year, the sUSB Expo has expanded this sector with a program that is keeping up […]

Microdrones, a global manufacturer of professional unmanned aerial systems (UAS), is pleased to announce they are partnering with SITECH South, a leading provider of construction equipment and services in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. SITECH South will now offer Microdrones mdMapper solutions – complete UAV packages with everything needed for surveying and mapping. “We’re excited to […]

NTT DOCOMO, INC., in a continuing quest to create innovative new business, has developed a spherical drone display – an unmanned aerial vehicle that displays LED images on an omnidirectional spherical screen while in flight – which DOCOMO believes to be a world first (as of April 16, 2017). The device comprises a spherical external […]

Novadrone and Sevilla University researchers are collaborating in a Research and Development project to help the rice crop industry to optimise rice production. During two years several flights will be conducted. The research study has two main objectives. The first objective is to compare in real time, satellite captured images with drone captured images, in the aim to find […]

Here’s their headline, “ZEROTECH Leaks New Pocket Drone Hesper and Introduces ZEROSPACE Drone Formation Dance Set” So they have announced a product in a press release and describe it as a leak. DJI are really good at leaks and Zerotech must have seen that. The Hesper, well it’s another quad. Zerospace, now that is a […]

It’s the weekend and pilots from all over California are gathering to build, tune, and race drones around the first permanent drone racing track on the west coast of the United States. Drone racing has been the fastest expanding sector of the drone industry and certainly is the most innovative. I took a trip to […]

We will be hosting an open house as part of this year’s Small Unmanned Systems Business Exposition. The public is invited to come on out to Treasure Island to see live product demonstrations from vendors like DroneDeploy, PropellerAero, Skyefish, Pix4D and others. This is an opportunity for the public to tour the facilities and see […]

The collaboration between Seagate and DJI announced earlier this year is bearing fruit. Fly Drive has hit the market and is expected to retail for $119.99 and will be on display at NAB. Drones are creating more content than ever before, and with the announcement of the Seagate DJI Fly Drive, managing that surge of data […]

HAEVIC, well- known drone manufacturer of Potchefstroom, South Africa have introduced a new drone platform which can deliver complete and highly accurate multispectral images of crops within minutes. These advanced graphics give the farmer an immediate indication where diseases or plant stress can be found in his crop fields. Usually, it takes 2 to 7 […]

Social media was abuzz with hopes of the DJI Spark and or Phantom5 launch for NAB 2017 but many were disappointed that it’s the posh Cendence controller and a tracking antenna. I have heard it said that DJI flight controllers have toy-like simplicity. Personally, I think they are form and function distilled to where they […]

The Northwest UAV NW-44 Engine – the only cutting edge propulsion system ever developed for small unmanned aerial systems – has now successfully logged over 1000 combat flight hours, demonstrating its unique value to the UAS community by changing what’s possible with small UAVs. McMinnville, OR: In just a few years, from concept to first […]

Callen-Lenz and its subsidiary SkyCircuits specialise in manned and unmanned aircraft operations and technology. Our business is rapidly expanding in exciting and technically challenging areas of aviation. As an Embedded Systems Programmer you will be joining the SkyCircuits team developing, designing and manufacturing advanced avionics systems including autopilot and ground station systems for unmanned aircraft. […]

STARKVILLE, Miss. — Mississippi State University will lead a major research and development project for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after a rigorous and highly competitive review process. The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has selected Mississippi as the new base of operations for small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS), commonly known as drones, […]

Facebook would like to quickly connect people in the event of an emergency. Yale Maguire has revealed that they have been experimenting with a helicopter lifting a hotspot. Making the internet reach parts other service providers just can’t reach. It’s not a new way of doing business, in 1901 Guglielmo Marconi received the letter S in morse […]

This year, Earth Day is Race Day! On Saturday, April 22, the Aerial and Aquatic Robot Research group (AARR) from the California State University Channel Islands is hosting the first ever Drone Data Race in Camarillo, CA. The event is sponsored by Pix4D, the industry leader in professional drone mapping and photogrammetric software solutions. Drone […]

Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (hereinafter, Yamaha Motor) and enRoute Co., Ltd. (hereinafter enRoute) have recently started discussions for a business alliance in the industrial drone business. Both companies aim to conclude a business agreement in August, and utilize each of their products and business know-how for 1) Global expansion of the industrial drone business including […]

Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation (NASC) and UAV Turbines Inc. (UAVT) have announced plans for a joint flight demonstration of NASC’s TigerShark aircraft with a UAVT micro-turboprop propulsion system. First flights are scheduled prior to year-end 2017. This will mark the first time that a Group 3 UAV is powered by a micro-turboprop engine with a new […]

Sky-Futures has launched Flightdeck, the latest addition to the Expanse® software suite for professional drone missions. Flightdeck offers drone operators an integrated cloud-based solution to safely plan and execute commercial drone operations as well as manage pilots, drone equipment and mission information in one place. Compliance and audit tasks for drone operations can now be […]

The Ministry of Defence is to invest in projects that look at ways of using autonomous systems in the ‘last mile’ of the supply chain to front-line military operations. Up to £1.5 million is available in the first phase of the competition. There is up to an additional £1.5 million in phase 2 that includes […]

Ampyx Power, a Dutch developer of Airborne Wind Energy Systems, a next generation of wind energy technology allowing low-cost production of renewable energy, today announced a cooperation with the German utility E.ON. In addition, Ampyx Power launches a new crowdfunding campaign aimed at raising investments of € 2.5 million. Ampyx Power and E.ON have entered […]

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Warm Springs, OR – Tribally owned Eagle Tech Systems announced the Drones and Public Safety Conference on May 24-25, 2017 at Kah-Nee-Ta High Desert Resort, Warm Springs, OR Did you know that Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) are being used on structure fires, wildland fires, traffic accidents, search and rescue, and crime scene investigations all over […]

JTT UAV industrial drone T60 for sea search and rescue application, the only project of UAV for sea search and rescue in the world till now, now starting the project implement in Gold Coast, integrated with industrial fly controller and wireless audio/video transmission system at 1080P/60FPS and transmission distance up to 20km, inspect the sea […]

XDynamics today introduces the D-02, its next-generation aerial platform for professional drone cinematography and industrial applications. It is an industrial grade unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) optimized for customization, compatible with a wide range of accessories, sensors and cameras. The D-02, together with the well-received XDynamics Evolve, is part of the company’s lineup of high-end ready-to-fly […]

Singapore, Airbus Helicopters is collaborating with Singapore Post (SingPost) as its logistics partner for the innovative Skyways parcel delivery project. The announcement was made today at the inaugural Rotorcraft Asia exhibition taking place in Singapore. The MoU was signed by Jean-Brice Dumont, Airbus Helicopters’ Executive Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technical Officer, and Mervyn […]

Tariq Rashid Lead Remote Pilot at Skyward If you’re involved with a large-scale drone operation, you’ve likely encountered frustrations dealing with lithium-polymer batteries. Battery logistics are a common challenge for companies scaling up drone programs, and they represent a considerable hidden cost of growing a fleet. Besides the purchase cost of each individual battery, you […]

Octopus ISR Systems, a division of UAV Factory Ltd., announced that it has released a new feature for precision geo-pointing for its miniature Epsilon series of gyro-stabilized gimbals. This feature, Precision Geo-Lock, combines a state-of-the-art GPS-aided inertial navigation system (GPS/INS) with dedicated software algorithms and payload operator software. Precision Geo-Lock provides the user with highly […]

DroneDeploy, the leading cloud software platform for commercial drones today announced the beta release of its new Fieldscanner product offering real-time drone mapping, just in time for the spring growing season. With Fieldscanner, available as part of DroneDeploy’s iOS app, farmers can use any DJI drone to create a map of their fields as the […]

EIT Digital is launching “Cloud4Drones,” a cloud-based platform for drone monitoring that provides a novel way of building drone applications by exploiting the nearly ubiquitous connection to mobile networks to provide a cloud-based centralized data harvesting platform for data storage and backup. Integration with the cloud infrastructure enables live use of data collected by the […]

Sentera is excited to announce the launch of its closed beta for field-edge Plant Population Analysis, available through its AgVault™ Software platform. Plant Population Analytics assess where plants are and are not growing, calculates an emergence measurement, and visually represents results with a colored heat map. The new tool addresses a fundamental issue the agriculture […]

Cumulus is an extremely easy-to-use and highly autonomous fixed wing drone built in first class materials for precision agricultural, mapping and surveying. The aircraft is made from the best carbon fibre and kevlar, which makes it one of the most robust UAVs on the market. The Cumulus is a completely autonomous system. Once the mission planning is […]