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by The economic advantages of Structure from Motion (SfM) mapping without any ground control points have motivated us to investigate an approach that relies on accurate camera exposure positions instead of Ground Control Points (GCP) for geo-referencing purposes. Our…Read more →

by Mitch LeClair It wasn’t a bird, and inspections didn’t use a crane. No, the flying object was a drone gathering data near bridges this summer. The Minnesota Department of Transportation conducted studies at four structures using an unmanned aerial…Read more →

by Strat Aero plc, an aerospace company, announced the appointment of Tony Dunleavy to the board as chief executive officer. Mr. Dunleavy is PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP trained international accountant with more than 30 years of Corporate Finance, Business Development, Financial &…Read more →

by Aaron Karp A top FAA official said as many as one million small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could be sold during the upcoming US holiday season. “The talking point is that there will be a million dronesunder people’s Christmas…Read more →

by Remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), commonly referred to as ‘drones’, are becoming increasingly popular, particularly those fitted with camera equipment, which allow both professional and amateur operators to capture aerial footage like never before. While the vast majority of operators…Read more →

by At WeWork Berkeley, there’s an office decorated with empty beer steins, and another occupied by a massive beanbag chair. In yet another, mannequins sport colorful bridesmaid dresses. But Queen B Robotics still manages to make their workspace stand out.…Read more →

by By Matt Howerton ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Balloon Fiesta officials are once again asking visitors to not bring unmanned drones or unmanned aircraft systems in fear they may disrupt the safety of this year’s event. Officials took a hard stance on drones…Read more →

by Southern roading company Fulton Hogan has begun using a six-bladed hexi-copter drone fitted with a video camera to survey North Otago’s eroding coastline. The survey is for the Waitaki District Council, which will use the footage to find and…Read more →

by Real-Time Innovations (RTI) is introducing a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) DO-178C Level A Certification Package for Connext DDS Cert, designed to help companies reduce the time, cost, and risk required to develop, integrate, and certify a safety-critical distributed application. This…Read more →

by Is your company interested in designing, marketing, and selling your very own brand name parachute recovery system for Unmanned Vehicles? Parachute systems are going to start becoming a must have in the commercial drone industry/market. At CAD Drones LLC…Read more →

by By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The business of drones has ascended into the stratosphere, as investors have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the tiny unmanned aircraft in hopes of turning them into…Read more →

by The industrial slabs of Hong Kong. A ceremonial center in the Mexican jungle. Science. Anti-science. Teleportation. Goons. Opposing forces. A menacing international space agency. A Type III alien civilization. An element not of this planet. The dawn of a…Read more →

by The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is seeking offers for an unmanned aerial vehicle turnkey project for its Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine. The scope of monitoring services by UAVs will include but not be limited…Read more →

by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles/Systems (UAV/UAS) may be known by a number of names, to include model aircraft, drones, or remote-piloted aircraft (RPA). UAV/UAS operators include aviation hobbyists, as well as commercial operators who wish to use new and emerging technology…Read more →

by ClearBoost enhances your FPV/UAV/Drone video reception so you see less static and can fly further. Since the beginning of FPV and Drone technology, intermittent dropouts and range limitations have been issues we’ve all had to live with. Celestial Reach…Read more →

by DRONING Sistemas Aéreos (www.droning.es), an Spanish company dedicated to RPA design and manufacturing, launches its new high-performance RPA DE820 to operate in different areas as environmental, agricultural, inspection and surveying. Being a genuine development, it is tailored to best…Read more →

by FAA approved drone technology company, Soaring Sky, believes that drones are the future of journalism. As leaders in drone technology, Soaring Sky was one of the first to conduct live broadcasting from a drone in the nation. The company…Read more →

by By Stephen Babcock When Terry and Belinda Kilby started their drone photography businessElevated Element, Terry Kilby was building drones and controllers in his garage. He still has plenty of controllers and use for those original UAVs, but these days…Read more →

by (CNS): Small unmanned drones are now part of the tools used by the prison service to battle the practice of throwing drugs and contraband over the perimeter fence of HMP Northward, and it appears likely that they will also…Read more →

by John Weekes Drone operators say a culture of “hysteria” around unmanned aerial vehicles threatens to ruin New Zealand’s chances of benefiting from the technology. Friday’s reported near-miss between a remotely-piloted aircraft system (RPAS) and an Air New Zealand plane…Read more →

by Topcon GB & Ireland, the positioning partner for geo-businesses, has added a new unmanned aerial system (UAS) to its product range to give customers greater precision and flexibility for survey and mapping applications. The Falcon 8 has been created…Read more →

by Survey Objectives and Deliverable Items The purpose of this survey was to achieve a high accuracy topographic map and Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of a study area in a foreign country that: (a) was managed by an independent and…Read more →

by By Tim Lamden For The Daily Mail and Lucy Crossley for MailOnline Four planes flying close to major British airports have been involved in potentially fatal near-misses with drones in the the last month. The incidents recorded in recent…Read more →

by Grant Taylor The owner of a mystery drone spotted hovering near Domain Stadium during the Eagles preliminary final clash on Saturday night says he did not breach any air safety regulations. The sight of the unmanned helicopter had Channel…Read more →

by Quick Summary of How to Check for TFR’s. Check to see if there is a TFR in effect for your area by going to www.tfr.faa.gov, using www.airmap.io, or calling 1800-WX-BRIEF. If there is a TFR in your area, find out WHEN…Read more →

by Regan Schoultz A drone had a near miss with a commercial flight in controlled airspace above Christchurch last night. The pilot of an Air New Zealand A320, with 166 passengers on board, reported sighting a Remotely Piloted Aircraft System…Read more →

by The company in charge of Australia’s largest African mahogany plantation has enlisted the services of a drone this week, to gather data on its trees in the Northern Territory. African Mahogany Australia (AMA) manages nearly 13,000 hectares of mahogany…Read more →

by A photographer from Kingsmead, Milton Keynes, who has launched a drone-based business offering aerial filming and photography, believes the technology will become ‘prevalent’ in the near future. Matt Thompson, 25, from Pembridge Grove, launched Aerios Media in July and…Read more →

by The Commercial UAV Expo, taking place October 5-7, 2015 in Las Vegas, is the must-attend commercial UAV show of the year for professionals responsible for UAS in these industries: Surveying & Mapping Civil Infrastructure Mining Construction Process, Power & Utilities…Read more →

by BY: ARIE EGOZI An undisclosed Latin American nation has awarded Elbit Systems a roughly $70 million contract to supply it with an integrated intelligence-gathering capability using its Hermes 900 unmanned air vehicle. The equipment – which Elbit says will…Read more →

by Scott Bordenkircher and Erik Ellis, Arizona Public Service Over the past five to seven years, bulk electric system companies outside of the U.S. have increased their use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in pursuit of increasing safety, improving efficiency…Read more →

by Ellen-Maree ElliotQuest Newspapers A DRONE that forced a pair or parent ospreys to leave their nest and their chick has been caught on camera. Wellington Point resident Paul Harper lives near osprey nest and caught the drone hovering near…Read more →

by THE scale and scope of the revolution in the use of small, civilian drones has caught many by surprise. In 2010 America’s Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) estimated that there would, by 2020, be perhaps 15,000 such drones in the…Read more →

by Marty Lachance goes through a pre-flight checklist while circling a small machine looking like nothing more than a homegrown electronics project of wires and parts. The 57-year-old Mendon resident begins flipping levers, connecting wires and checks if the exposed…Read more →

by By Rick Barrett of the Journal Sentinel Operating a small aerial drone over hundreds of acres of corn, Zach Fiene can receive detailed pictures of the crop on his iPad. From the images, or a live video, he can…Read more →

by Patrick contributes this week to the Journal of the National Association of Environmental Professionals. I’m stood in said field! PERSPECTIVES FROM THE FIELD: Environmental Data Collection and Unmanned Aircraft Systems Patrick Egan (2015). Environmental Practice, Volume 17, Issue03, September 2015,…Read more →

by AP:- TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency is reporting that the country’s army has unveiled a new locally-made reconnaissance drone that can stay aloft for up to six hours. The Tasnim report Wednesday says the drone dubbed…Read more →

by By Matt Egan After going public in June 2014 at $24 a share, enormous enthusiasm for the powerful GoPro(GPRO, Tech30) brand sent its shares skyrocketing to nearly $100. But valuations got out of whack with reality. The wearable camera…Read more →

by By Ian Duncan The Baltimore Sun An inmate serving a life sentence for a murder conviction has been indicted along with two other men in an alleged plot to smuggle contraband into a western Maryland prison using a drone, corrections…Read more →

by SAE International and the European Organisation for Civil Aviation Equipment (EUROCAE) have signed an updated Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC), which updates and strengthens the cooperation between the two standards developing bodies in providing necessary technical standards for the global…Read more →

by Alliance Lp Drones Ltd., has recently completed initial flight tests of H-2 UAV, a prototype of the solar-powered stratospheric unmanned aircraft currently under development to provide Internet and mobile communication infrastructures in remote parts of the world. H-2 UAV…Read more →

by Owner and operator of the National Grid, Transpower and local distribution company, Northpower today are reminding UAV operators to take particular care when operating unmanned aircraft near overhead transmission and distribution lines. The prompt follows two incidents in the…Read more →

by In a project with the Welsh Government and Snowdonia Aerospace LLP, QinetiQ will highlight the potential of RPAS applications in the areas of fisheries protection, flood risk management and coastal erosion monitoring. The initiative will be the first major…Read more →

by BY MICHAEL PLATT, CALGARY SUN Flying a drone requires coordination and sharp reflexes — but what the pilot clearly doesn’t need is common sense. That dangerous truth was proven once again on Tuesday morning, when yet another fool fingering…Read more →

by Drones are now on China’s list of goods whose export will be restricted in future. The Chinese trade ministry gave “national security” as the reason after images of a combat drone that had crashed in Nigeria’s north-easternmost state Borno…Read more →

by By JOSEPH SERNA The Los Angeles city attorney’s office charged a man Tuesday with obstructing a peace officer for allegedly flying a drone too close to a police helicopter. Martin Sheldon, 57, was charged with two counts of obstructing…Read more →

by by Romain Dillet GoPro founder and CEO Nick Woodman confirmed that a GoPro drone was on its way in an interview with our own Matt Burns at Disrupt SF. “Development is on track for the first half of 2016.…Read more →

by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), a leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) systems, radars, and electro-optic and related mission systems solutions, today confirmed plans to open a RPA Training Academy in Grand Forks, North Dakota. GA-ASI has…Read more →

by Monarch, Inc completed the first stage of a project this week to aerially survey and 3D map the 19th-century ghost mining town of Bodie, California. Part of the California State Parks system, Bodie is an original California Gold Rush…Read more →

by NYC is about to be invaded by drones! Get ready for the Aerial Sports League “dSports Open” at the World Maker Faire. It’s going to be the biggest drone sports event ever held on the East Coast –…Read more →