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SETI Institute Drone Maps Iceland Lava Cave in Preparation f…

The SETI Institute is probably best known for its work scanning the stars for signs of extraterrestrial communications. But the organization’s remit is broader than that. Its many research teams work towards a noble goal: to explore, understand, and explain the origin and nature of life in the universe. Exploring …

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Astigan: Ordnance Survey To Launch High-Altitude, Solar-Powe…

National mapping agency for Great Britain and leading geospatial data organization Ordnance Survey (OS) has announced plans to launch a solar-powered drone that will fly at high altitude to complement existing satellite mapping systems. The aim of the High Altitude Psuedo Satellite (HAPS) project, called Astigan, is to provide faster, higher quality images …

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A Closer Look at senseFly’s New eBee X

Amid the avalanche of product and service launches, partnership announcements and general industry news at Interdrone earlier this month, senseFly, a division of French drone manufacturer Parrot, unveiled a new modular drone for aerial mapping and surveying. On paper, the eBee X looks like a useful fixed-wing aircraft that should …

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Mapping Asia’s Largest Copper Ore Mine, Using Drones

A Czech drone providers firm, UpVision, has been utilizing UAVs to map the largest copper ore mine in Asia. The mapping mission spanned greater than 10km² close to the town of Erdenet, Mongolia. In help of Czech geologists investigating the positioning, the UpVision workforce deployed a MAVinci Sirius, produced by the German producer …

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Parrot Repurposes Consumer Models for Commercial Market

French drone producer Parrot has taken an attention-grabbing sideways step into the business market this week. The firm has introduced that two of its newest shopper drones are being repurposed to fulfill the wants of pros in agriculture, mapping and inspection, for industries starting from development to actual property. Parrot …

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Black Swift Demonstrates sUAS System for Land Surveys at Ext…

Black Swift Technologies (BST) is a specialised engineering agency based mostly in Boulder that develops turnkey drone surveying methods. They just lately performed a profitable survey of deploying a drone at excessive altitudes to seize and ship geo-referenced digital aerial photos. It was an autonomous flight that enabled detailed actionable …

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SenseFly to Unveil eBee Plus with Survey Grade Mapping

Parrot‘s commercial drone company senseFly has announced that they will unveil the eBee Plus system next week at the InterGEO conference in Hamburg, Germany. The new eBee Plus system enhances eBee’s existing fixed-wing commercial drones, industry leaders in many applications including agriculture.  The new system adds a photogrammetry-optimised RGB sensor and next-gen flight …

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