SkyPixel, a drone photo-sharing community operated in partnership with DJI, has announced the winners of its latest drone photography contest. The contest drew in more than 27,000 entries from 131 countries. Ge Zheng won the 2016 SkyPixel Photo of the Year with this photo titled, “Fishermen close the net,” which was …
Read More »Challenges on the Horizon for the Consumer Drone Industry
Looking back at the progress the consumer drone industry made in 2016, it’s easy to imagine that 2017 will be packed with revelatory product announcements and further strides forward. However, another bumper 18 months of consumer drone innovation seems unlikely at this point. Here’s why… Let’s begin by concentrating on …
Read More »70 Drone Companies to Watch in 2017
While it’s impossible to track each and every drone company in such a fast-moving industry, we’ve done our best to highlight the biggest players and to give you a sense of who is doing what in the drone industry. Make sure to bookmark this page if you’re doing industry research. 🙂 …
Read More »How to use a drone for aerial thermography
As thermal sensors become smaller, lighter, less expensive and more widely available on drones, more commercial drone applications are integrating aerial thermography. Drones with thermal cameras are being used for inspecting HVAC units, wind turbines, cell towers, roofs, or finding missing people. And more drone companies are making it easy to incorporate …
Read More »Amazon Patent Details Folding-wing Drone Design
Mega-retailer Amazon continues to spread it corporate wings into the drone space, filing a patent for a new type of hybrid folding-wing design. The patent was filed in 2014 and published on Dec. 24. The application describes a drone design in which the aircraft “transitions in-flight between vertical flight configuration and …
Read More »Are Drones Allowed in National Parks? Great Sand Dunes Natio…
The Great Sand Dunes National Park in southern Colorado announced the completion of a research project earlier this week that used drones to collect data within the park. This is a big news, primarily because drones are generally banned from all national parks. [Skip down for some analysis of drones in …
Read More »Measure raises $15 million toward drone service business
The past 12 months have been a year of consolidation for the drone hardware world. Major drone makers including GoPro, Parrot and 3D Robotics have announced layoffs, while funding to drone-related companies has seen a drop-off. There was $55 million invested in eight VC deals for the drone industry in …
Read More »Another Step Towards BVLOS Flight: Vigilant Completes Testin…
NASA Senior Flight Engineer Dr. Ricardo Arteaga and Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli Epperson on-site for beyond line-of-sight testing at NASA Armstrong, Image courtesy Vigilant Oklahoma-based Vigilant Aerospace has completed successful beyond visual line- of-sight (BVLOS) flight testing of its new FlightHorizon detect-and-avoid collision avoidance system for drones at the NASA Armstrong …
Read More »Foldable Wings, Center of Gravity Detection and More Feature…
Image Source Amazon filed a bevy of drone-related patents this week, a total of four in all. Most prominent among the patents is a patent for a drone with foldable wings. Other patents are for a system for determining the center of gravity for a payload that’s put on a delivery …
Read More »How DJI CrystalSky can help solve brightness issues on your …
Next up in our “Ask Drone Girl” series is about drone LCD brightness and DJI’s CrystalSky monitor. If you have a question for Drone Girl, contact her here. Hey Drone Girl, I am new to the drone world. I am hoping to incorporate the aerial photography into my roofing consulting …
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