Drone pilots are quarantined like everyone else – but if you can get out of the house to log some flying hours, you won’t want to miss Hivemapper’s March Mapness contest.  The contest is open to all drone pilots flying almost any hardware or camera, and you can create a …

In these unsettled days, it’s more important than ever for us to support and recognize the many amazing people in the drone industry.  Now is the time to nominate the extraordinary women you know for the 2020 Women to Watch Global Awards – and this year, there will be two …

File image The FirePoint C3 Challenge will see three academic teams collaborate remotely to design next-generation drone systems for the U.S. Army. Presented by the FirePoint Innovations Center at Wichita State University and sponsored by the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation and Missile Center, the challenge develops new …

Image copyright XAG Image caption An XAG drone flown over a children’s play park in China A group of drone experts is calling on the UK government to relax regulations on chemical spraying from the air during the coronavirus pandemic. It wants to train drone pilots from the emergency services …

File photo MVT Geo-solutions has partnered with Iris Automation in a successful bid to receive the first Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight (BVLOS) Special Flight Operations Certificate by Transport Canada using only onboard Detect-and-Avoid. The approval was granted based on deployment of Iris Automation‘s DAA system, Casia. The solution provides commercial drones with automated collision …

Pix 4D is expanding their enterprise toolset beyond their mapping roots – although the Pix4DMapper platform continues to evolve and improve, staying out ahead of the curve in accuracy and processing time.  Now, the company announces the addition of a totally new generation of tools to the Pix4D suite:  Pix4Dsurvey, …

The UAE will emerge as a world leader in using drone capabilities in a growing list of fields, said experts at Falcon Eye Drones Services (FEDS), a leader in drone technologies and one of the world’s top Drone-as-a-Service (DaaS) companies. The speed of the initiative of government agencies in the …

Drone solutions for the enterprise are honing in on the needs of business customers.  Two hardware agnostic drone solutions are integrating to provide a seamless solution for large enterprise customers: FlytBase, a drone automation platform that allows deployment of drone fleets; and DroneLogbook, a solution designed to facilitate compliance for …

Source: NOAA NOAA is predicting clear skies for a new drone program the agency rolls out this week. In a media statement, the agency announced the launch of the Unmanned Systems Operations Program. “The new program will promote the safe, efficient and economical operation of unmanned systems NOAA uses to …

image courtesy Draganfly Governments and researchers around the world are working on new solutions for pandemics in the current Covid-19 crisis.  Drones have been important tools for applications including drone delivery and disinfection – but in this project, Canadian drone solutions company Draganfly will act as systems integrator with a …