Drone

How to steer clear of the wrong hire for your drone business By Jonathan Rupprecht, Esq. for Drone AnalystTM It seems everyone is running toward the “drone” rush to make a quick buck. The way I see it is many of the consultants and attorneys assisting businesses with drone work …

While it was easy to get swept up in the buzz surrounding DJI’s latest launch event, the Mavic Pro wasn’t the only product announced. The Chinese drone giant also launched the company’s new first-person view goggles – handily called target=”_blank”> target=”_blank”> target=”_blank”> target=”_blank”> target=”_blank”>DJI Goggles. Previously DJI pilots have needed …

Telecoms network Verizon is planning to launch data plans for drone pilots, which will see consumer and commercial drones given access to the same data offered to mobile phone users. The move could be the first glimpse of a future in which drones are increasingly connected to the internet for live streaming …

Photo courtesy of DARPA The U.S. military’s top think-tank is thinking of ways to map and track potentially harmful drones over major American cities. Last month, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced the launch of the Aerial Dragnet program “to provide persistent, wide-area surveillance of all [drones] operating below …

Action video can be both exciting and a jangy mess. Whether shot on a GoPro camera attached to a skateboard or a 4K camera on an aerial drone, action video can be less than perfect. Image issues can include fisheye warp, camera shakes, and washed out colors; all defects that …

Parrot‘s commercial drone company senseFly has announced that they will unveil the eBee Plus system next week at the InterGEO conference in Hamburg, Germany. The new eBee Plus system enhances eBee’s existing fixed-wing commercial drones, industry leaders in many applications including agriculture.  The new system adds a photogrammetry-optimised RGB sensor and next-gen flight …

Choosing the right service means choosing a trusted business partner THE FACTS: In early 2014, it was easy to see that drones themselves (the aircraft) would quickly become commoditized and their value would come not from what they could do but from the data they collect. In a piece titled …

Autel’s X-Star DJI, the world’s largest drone manufacturer, says a competitor released a new product that looks “suspiciously” like the Phantom flagship line less than a year after hiring hiring away a target=”_blank”> target=”_blank”> target=”_blank”> target=”_blank”> target=”_blank”> target=”_blank”> target=”_blank”> target=”_blank”> target=”_blank”> target=”_blank”>DJI engineer. In a patent infringement complaint filed in August, …

4-H’s National Youth Science Day (NYSD) took place in Washington D.C. yesterday, and included this year’s National Science Challenge: Drone Discovery. The 2016 National Science Challenge was developed by Cornell University Cooperative Extension.   The challenge is a “hands-on engineering design challenge” exploring drone technology and applications to solve real world problems. …

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