DJI and SkyPixel’s fourth annual drone photo contest is here. Since its launch in 2014, DJI’s social media platform has gone on to become a global community for aerial photographers and videographers. It now has more than 10 million registered users around the world and thousands of aerial images and …
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Israeli drone provider Airobotics this week announced receiving the FAA’s first ever three-prong certificate of waiver for “flying Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) for automated drone operations, over human beings, with a visual observer that is not required to keep a visual line of sight on the drone.” The waiver …
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Image: University of Zurich Compact and foldable, portable drones are great for carrying – but can the advantages of a folding drone be realized during flight? Researchers at the University of Zurich, with others, have come up with a drone that folds during flight to get through tight spaces. Davide …
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Sunflower Labs is using drone technology in ways that were not possible or even thought of a few years ago. We interviewed Alex Pachikov, the co-founder and CEO of Sunflower, about his home surveillance solution. Some estimates have the home surveillance market at 45 billion dollars in 2018 worldwide – …
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Michael Huerta ParaZero, the Tel-Aviv based drone recovery systems company announced today that former US FAA Administrator Michael Huerta has joined their advisory board. Mr. Huerta was nominated by US President Barack Obama and finished out his five year term under President Donald Trump. He finished his out his 5 …
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Japanese UAV player Terra Drone Corporation is expanding its global reach after the Tokyo-based company bought a major stake in Australian firm C4D Intel. Terra Drone specializes in commercial drone hardware, software and UTM. The company focuses on the mining, construction, energy generation, oil and gas sectors, using UAV-based LiDAR …
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Airspace drone management firm AirMap announced the release of Real-Time Geofencing Alerts in the AirMap for Drones mobile app on iOS and Android. “Available for free, the feature alerts pilots of their DJI drone’s in-flight positioning and offers a visual and/or verbal alert when their aircraft approaches airspace that is …
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New York Police Department chief Terence Monahan has announced the NYPD’s adoption of drone technology. At a press event yesterday, the NYPD unveiled a fleet of 14 drones made up of models from DJI, including the Matrice, the Mavic and the Inspire series. Three scenarios in which drones could make a …
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It’s a common science fiction theme that drones and other means of surveillance may someday be used to track individuals, using AI and teams of government officials to identify people from aerial images. There’s no need to get nervous yet, though – a paper published by two UK-based researchers says …
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Today SimActive., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software is being use for a large-scale project by First Base Solutions who provides aerial imagery, geospatial data and custom mapping solutions to organizations across North America. The size of each image consisted of MB totaling 40 TB of raw data. As Drones are …
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