The latest rescue took place last month, when sherriff’s deputies found a missing 93-year-old woman in a dark field in Missouri – using a DJI drone with a thermal imaging camera. That brings the total to more than 500 lives saved by drones, according to DJI’s project counting the lives …
Read More »Cyber Monday Drone Deals: Pix4D, DJI, and More
There is still time to get deeply discounted hardware and software for your business. Check out these Cyber Monday drone deals and Pix4D‘s Cyber December offers! This year, the industry is embracing year end discounts: Cyber Monday drone deals are going well beyond recreational hardware (but that’s included, too.) If …
Read More »Score a Drone on Black Friday: Don’t Miss These Deals
The turkey’s been eaten, and now it’s time for another classic tradition – shopping. This year, online is the way to go – but there are a lot of options for purchasing – or winning – a drone on Black Friday. Autel’s EVO II For the U.S. market, Autel’s EVO …
Read More »Black Friday Drone Deals from DJI and FLIR
Despite the fact that the mall crush probably won’t happen this year, there are great Black Friday drone deals – like these from DJI and thermal imaging leader FLIR. It’s not only the holiday season, it’s a great time to equip your commercial drone programs with discounted equipment. DJI has …
Read More »DJI’s Agriculture Drone AGRAS T20
DJI’s agriculture drone for crop spraying, the DJI AGRAS T20, makes agricultural spraying easier, smarter, and safer. Crop spraying by drone, while not widely legal in the U.S., has been adopted elsewhere around the world. As agricultural drones get easier to fly and ever more automated, crop spraying by drone …
Read More »Japan Moves to Ban Chinese Drone Sales to Government Agencie…
On the heels of recent U.S. government efforts to ban Chinese drones for official use, Japan this week announced a similar plan. According to a Reuters report, several government insiders say the initiative would shut out China from selling any drones to Japanese agencies in an effort “to protect sensitive …
Read More »DJI Mini 2 New Drone Introduced Today
The DJI Mini 2 was introduced today – and by all reports, it’s exactly what drone cinematographers have been waiting for. In the last 14 hours, more than 100 YouTube reviews of the DJI Mini 2 have beeen published. By far the vast majority are rave reviews: “Best Ever” and …
Read More »DJI and Mercedes Benz: EQ Formula E Team Racing Team [VIDEO]
DJI is moving way beyond drone hardware to providing all types of innovative visual tools. Now, DJI and Mercedes Benz are partnering to help bring new fans to the E division: car racing with highly modified specially built electric racing circuit. The E is for electric only: races are held …
Read More »Is DJI Owned by China? DJI Debunks Drone Myths
Image by atimedia from Pixabay Nearly two weeks after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) banned its agencies from using DJI drones and other UAS manufactured by a so-called Covered Foreign Entity, the Chinese drone maker addressed several “myths” about the company: including a pervasive belief that DJI is owned …
Read More »Aerial Surveying: DJI Introduces 2 New Powerful Payloads
This week the INTERGEO conference takes place: the world’s biggest conference for the geospatial industry. Drones have become such a big part of the geospatial industry that there is now a dedicated section of the show for them: INTERAERIAL Solutions focuses on aerial surveying using drones. At Intergeo today, the world’s …
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