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© Volocopter Urban air mobility is a hot topic in the drone industry.  We’ve seen the images, the test flights, the prototypes, and the plans for vertiports everywhere. Continue reading below, or listen: As real implementation gets closer, however, a panel of experts from state and local departments of transportation, …

The EASA High Level Conference on Drones opened today in Amsterdam.  Over the next several days, regulators and stakeholders from Europe and around the world will discuss what comes next for European drone regulations. Continue reading below, or listen: This year’s theme for the conference is “Back to the Future …

cisc1970, CC BY 2.0 Fire Department of New York (FDNY) on operating public safety drones in cities: from the floor of the National Public Safety UAS Conference. Continue reading below, or listen: Michael Wall, Michael Leo, and Kevin O’Malley are members of one of the best known public safety departments …

Read or listen to all of the headlines in one place: excerpts from the DRONELIFE drone news of the week of March 10, 2023.  Click on the titles below for the full story. Continue reading below, or listen: AFWERX has awarded Asylon Robotics a $1.2M Phase II Small Business Innovation …

Shmunmun, CC BY-SA 3.0 Drone Show Korea 2023, the largest in its 7 year history, took place last week in Busan, South Korea at the Busan TechnoPark. Continue reading below, or listen: The growing cooperation between the Korean drone industry and Bangladesh is a case in point.  Malik Fida Khan, …

Image of an Yves St. Laurent (YSL) carbon offset project in Morocco, shown on Explorer.land. GLOBHE is the impact tech company behind the crowd-droning concept and the largest album of drone-collected images in the world.  With a network of local drone operators in more than 140 countries, GLOBHE enables stakeholders …

Read or listen to all of the headlines in one place: excerpts from the DRONELIFE drone news of the week of February 17, 2023.  Click on the titles below for the full story. Continue reading below, or listen: Pierce Aerospace has partnered with Counter-UAS leader DroneShield to integrate Pierce Aerospace’s …

public domain image, CC0 Operating sUAS on mobile networks is great – but what’s the right SIM card for drone operations?   The Case for IoT SIM cards. A recent report by Verizon and the FAA indicates that mobile connectivity is a valid and desirable form of control over drones …

Napoleon Bergstrom, GLOBHE Deputy CEO and COO GLOBHE: Scaling Access to Actionable Drone Data All images used with permission, courtesy GLOBHE. Stockholm-based startup GLOBHE was started only 7 years ago – but they have already achieved a place in the Guinness Book of World Records (largest album of drone-collected images) …

Anduril Counter Drone “Science has not yet mastered prophecy,” said legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong.  “We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next ten.” Continue reading below, or listen: DroneLife · 3 – Predictions – For – The – Drone – Industry – …