Agriculture

One of the issues we hear on a regular basis in regards to the drone trade is how profitable everybody predicts will probably be (to not point out how profitable it already is). Article after article talks about projections for the longer term, and the way VC buyers are pouring …

Los Angeles-based startup Up Sonder is the first drone firm to supply crowdsourced drone leases and industrial pilot operations. Up Sonder is able to soar (in case you’re questioning about the title, sonder is an anagram for drones). The first peer-to-peer on-demand drone market, ​Up Sonder lately opened store in numerous main …

Sentera right now introduced its capacity to transform a DJI Phantom 4 Pro drone into a software that collects NDVI crop well being information. By integrating the ultra-lightweight, super-precise Sentera NDVI Single Sensor onto the Phantom 4 Pro platform, agronomists and growers have a brand new software for addressing crop …

Aerovironment, a producer of unmanned plane programs for each navy and business functions, shared particulars concerning its ongoing pilot packages that are getting into their third yr and have guided improvement of the AV DSS platform.  The firm additionally shows its Quantix™ drone and AV Decision Support System™ (AV DSS) …

Guest post by DroneDeploy — As one ag industry expert put it, using a drone on the farm is like being able to see your field from a 10,000-foot altitude, but also being able to zoom in to two inches above the plants. Growers are increasingly discovering that drone mapping …

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. 🙂 …

Maintaining optimal water quality can drive the almond industry a little nuts (sorry). However, a California-based drone company is teaming up with an academic research team to give growers a powerful new tool for a healthier harvest. Military and commercial drone provider AeroVironment recently launched a year-long study with Fresno …

Sponsored by MMC – While industrial drones for energy applications need flight endurance, reliability and a host of other features, Indonesia and many other Southeast Asian countries have another requirement: rain resistance. In many ways, drones are the perfect tool for power line stringing and inspection in Indonesia.  It’s unique …

Guest post by Efrat Fenigson, Head of Marketing at Airobotics (Autonomous Drones) It took a tease and a bold prediction from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to get the general public to begin thinking a couple of years ago about the ways in which drones might change the business landscape forever. But …

Researchers in New Zealand are hoping a drone test range will open up new horizons for the nation’s growing UAV industry. At the University of Canterbury’s Spatial Engineering Research Centre, a partnership of academic and commercial players recently launched a specialized test range. Officials see the complex as a way …