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By Mike Winn, CEO and co-founder, DroneDeploy — A Drone On Every Job Site By Mike Winn, CEO and co-founder, DroneDeploy With the passing of Part 107, the drone industry is finally poised to truly spread its wings. Part 107, the FAA’s operating rules for commercial drones, is a step …

According to 2015 statistics from the US Department of Labor, there are 44,300 surveyors in the United States. But mapping is practiced by a larger population of cartographers, topographers, photogrammetrists, civil engineers, and geographers – it’s not exclusive to the surveying industry.  The American Society of Civil Engineers lists more …

We partner with many great conference and event providers in the drone market.  But one has jumped out of the proverbial gate faster than all others: InterDrone.  Only in its second year, InterDrone has become the CES (or Comdex for you old guys) of the new drone economy.  This year’s …

A new app has launched with the aim of building a mutually beneficial community of drone pilots. Where2fly offers users the ability to save and discover new flight locations, helping to answer one of the most common questions on many pilots’ minds: “Where can I fly?” It’s a simple question but …

The state of Queensland in Australia announced that it will invest $1 million Australian to advance the drone industry. In an announcement Monday, the Queensland Premier Annastacia Palazczuk said that it would fund a partnership with US multi-national Boeing Company to develop and test innovative drone technology. The government says that 100 …

British Columbia has now amended the Wildlife Act to prohibit hunting with drones, the B.C. government announced last week. The B.C. Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, Steve Thomson, clarified that the change means that drones cannot be used in any way for hunting in the Province.  The …

An Iowa man is alive and well thanks to a search-and-rescue drone. On July 13, the Kossuth County Sheriff’s Department rescued missing boater Thomas Fitzpatrick and his granddaughter after the boat he was piloting became stuck in a logjam along the Plum Creek Dam area. To make matters worse, Fitzpatrick …

image: Amazon Amazon’s drone delivery service – PrimeAir – has given up on the U.S. for now.  Days after rival Flirtey announced the first FAA sanctioned residential drone delivery – in which the company proudly delivered a 7-Eleven Slurpee to waiting customers – Amazon announced a partnership with the UK …

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 …