Our buddies at Ocean Alliance have been pioneering the usage of drones for marine analysis for fairly a while. But till very just lately, these drones had been primarily off-the-shelf quadcopters, modified to be flying Petri dishes able to gathering whale snot with out disturbing the animals. These flying ‘SnotBots’ …

French drone producer Parrot is launching a brand new product in June, in accordance with a countdown on the corporate’s web site. All we all know thus far is ‘Il Arrive’: It’s coming. It’s been some time since we’ve had a brand new drone to look ahead to from Parrot. …

DJI and the European Emergency Number Association (EENA) have for 2 years been collaborating to see how drone know-how can be utilized by public security organizations. Today they introduced an growth of that partnership and celebrated a profitable drone-assisted rescue mission in Iceland. EENA is a Brussels-based NGO devoted to …

A France-based drone supplier simply launched a brand new fixed-wing drone that gives a mixture of hardware and software program improvements match for survey-grade mapping and different industrial missions. Last week, Delair introduced the world availability of the UX11 fixed-wing UAV following a spherical of ultimate assessments. The drone might …

The Drone Racing League (DRL) has introduced additional growth plans that embody a brand new media partnership, a brand new race venue and additional assist from title sponsor Allianz. The new race will happen on Saturday, June 16, on the Allianz Riviera stadium in Nice, France. The French theme continues with …

Belgian drone firm Unifly has introduced the appointment of three main gamers to the agency’s advisory board. Former FAA Director of Airspace Management John Walker is Senior Partner on the Padina Group; whereas Jules Kneepkens, advisor to the CAA of Qatar, is the previous Rule-making director at EASA, in addition to the …

Xcel Energy was just lately granted permission from the FAA to conduct common drone missions past visible line of sight (BVLOS) in Denver, Colorado. Xcel Energy is Colorado’s largest utility firm, and so they plan to use their BVLOS permission to conduct routine inspections of their digital transmission strains. Image …

picture: Virginia Tech Here at DRONELIFE we’ve had a serious benefit in making sense of NASA’s unmanned site visitors administration (UTM) testing and what it means for drone operators in every single place: we’ve bought Amit Ganjoo of ANRA Technologies’ cellphone quantity.  A main participant in each UTM and drone …

If you train highschool college students the right way to fly drones in an after faculty membership, do you should cross the Part 107 check first? Or what if you happen to’re flying a drone as a university pupil conducting analysis on your professor? The reply to the primary query …

What do drones, radiation and mosquitoes have in widespread? Two of this stuff can defeat the opposite. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) introduced this week the profitable testing of a drone-based effort to sterilize mosquitoes in an effort to cease the unfold of the lethal Zika virus. In cooperation …