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Photo: Bureau of Land Management The US Department of the Interior has announced a collaboration with industry partners DJI, AirMap, and Skyward in an attempt to keep drones away from wildfires. In an announcement yesterday, the US Department of the Interior (DOI) says that they have released a prototype warning system …

With an increasing number of drones donning their hardhats and swooping into the construction and inspection sector, UAV adoption is growing exponentially across the globe and Africa is no exception. In Namibia and Cameroon, officials and business leaders are teaming up to deploy drones for humanitarian and industrial use. Earlier …

A California-based company has teamed up with the world’s largest drone manufacturer to build an anti-drone fence around wildfires. AirMap, a provider of UAV airspace intelligence and navigation services, announced a partnership last week with DJI to enhance its current geofencing data database to include areas experiencing wildfires. Errant drones …

photo: 7-11 and Flirtey Forget the drive-through – convenience retailer 7-Eleven is now introducing the Slurpee drone. Drone delivery pioneer Flirtey said recently that residential delivery would happen within a year – and with the announcement of a Slurpee delivery, it seems to be a reality. The two companies partnered last …

image: Facebook Facebook’s solar drone, designed to deliver internet connectivity to underserved regions of the world, has taken flight. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that the solar drone Aquila completed a 96 minute test flight at the end of last month.  This puts the social media giant one step ahead …

MELVILLE, N.Y., July 25, 2016 — BZ Media LLC announced today the fourth in a series of critical examinations of the hype and reality behind certain vertical commercial drone markets, “The Truth About Drones in Mapping and Surveying.”  The free report was commissioned by BZ Media and written and produced …

Guest post by Kay Wackwitz, Drone Industry Insights — Last year we published the initial Drone Market Environment Map and it was so successful that we updated and enlarged it to visualize the current evolutionary stage. This map provides the most comprehensive picture of the global drone ecosystem, making the …

There’s a new drone startup making waves in the world of crowdfunding, and this time, it looks like speed is the top priority. California-based Tanky Drone has launched a crowdfunding campaign to bring its FPV racer to the wider public, which comes ready to fly and has, in testing at …

Features should appeal to Esri users, but will they appeal to non-Esri users? QuickTake THE FACTS: In February 2016, Esri released an application called Drone2Map for ArcGIS. Drone2Map (D2M) takes raw image data from drones and creates digital surface models, orthomosaics, 3D-point clouds and 3D PDFs that can be shared. …

DRONED premieres on July 22 at 6PM on the Science Channel (PRNewsFoto/Science Channel) The Science Channel is conducting a not-so-scientific experiment to find out if drones and reality TV can mix into a ratings reaction. On Friday, July 22, the network premieres Droned, a reality series that “follows a drone …