Drones for Nuclear Power: Flyability Collaborates with Mirion Technologies to Support Operators by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Swiss drone company Flyability has announced its collaboration with Mirion Technologies, a leading provider of radiation detection, measurement, analysis, and monitoring solutions. The new agreement will see the integration of the …

PX4 is an open-source drone ecosystem: a group of contributors committed to the transparency and philosophy of open source technology systems.  The Dronecode Year in Review report includes metrics on the contributors who write the code, and a transparent look into the funding sources and expenditures of the Dronecode Foundation. …

Autel Robotics Drone Deployed by Scientists for Volcano Research by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby An international team of scientists has deployed an Autel Robotics drone to monitor activities on Costa Rica’s Irazú Volcano. Continue reading below, or listen: Selected for its high-quality sensor and durability, the Autel EVO …

Don’t miss the March 7 episode of the Public Safety Drone Review, presented by DRONERESPONDERS and DRONELIFE, with guests from BRINC Drones and Airobotics!  The Public Safety Drone Review is a new monthly resource for the public safety community.  This free event will be held live on March 7, 2023 …

Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) imagery offers high resolution models of ground elevation, with vertical accuracy.  As  Lidar sensors have gotten smaller and lighter for use on drones, the use cases have expanded. Lidar imagery is flexible and precise, which makes it useful for professionals who want to understand a …

US drone manufacturer Skydio funding soars by $230 million for a total of over $562 million. From the Skydio funding announcement: The $230 million Series E round brings Skydio’s total funding raised to $562 million with a current valuation of over $2.2 billion. Linse Capital led the round, joined by existing …

Image of an Yves St. Laurent (YSL) carbon offset project in Morocco, shown on Explorer.land. GLOBHE is the impact tech company behind the crowd-droning concept and the largest album of drone-collected images in the world.  With a network of local drone operators in more than 140 countries, GLOBHE enables stakeholders …

The aerospace and defence industry continues to be a hotbed of innovation, with activity driven by the pressing need for modernisation and the growing importance of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and unmanned systems. In the last three years alone, there have been over 174,000 patents filed and granted …

TEKEVER Equips its AR5 Drone with Groundbreaking SAR Technology by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Unmanned aerial systems leader TEKEVER has announced the addition of GAMASAR to its AR5 UAS. A Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) developed by TEKEVER’s Space division, GAMASAR is available on both AR5 and AR3 systems …

image courtesy BRINC, used with permission US Drone Manufacturer BRINC Drones Sends Drones and Pilots to Turkey BRINC Chief of Staff Andrew Coté had arrived from Turkey only hours earlier when we met at the BRINC facility in Seattle, but the former Marine brought the same calm efficiency to our …