Drones For Good

The 2018 Hurricane season is already off to a deadly start, and disaster response teams are honing their preparations.  Drones have become a critical part of disaster preparation, response, and rebuild.  While many Floridians are getting ready to evacuate, Miami-based Airborne Response is getting ready to fly. The following is …

Drones are increasingly being adopted by public safety teams and first responders. A study out this week from DJI, the European Emergency Number Association (EENA) and Irish research firm Black Channel, shows why that trend is set to continue. And research like this is important. You’ll struggle to find an emergency service anywhere …

The team at FLIR hears about new uses for thermal imaging all the time – and as thermal imaging is adopted by more drone pilots,  those use cases will continue to expand. That’s why FLIR is on a mission to get thermal to more users – and to make it …

It’s another story for drone manufacturer DJI’s list of lives saved by drones.  Police in the UK captured the moment that a drone saved a missing elderly woman lost in the woods. The Sun reports that police used a drone equipped with thermal imaging to find the 83-year-old after being …

With the U.S. bracing for another major hurricane as Florence bears down on the Carolinas, the drone industry is getting ready to help.  Drones have emerged as a significant tool for disaster response, and leading industrial and government drone manufacturer CyPhy Works has stepped forward with PARC: the Persistent Aerial …

DJI‘s Mario Rebello took the stage at InterDrone this morning to talk about drones, data and security. Rebello met the issue of drone security head on.  DJI  suffered a major blow from the U.S. Government last year when, at the end of 2017, the Department of Homeland Security accused the …

Image: Intel Intel’s drone enterprise is greater than gentle reveals.  In addition to exhibiting off swarm know-how and offering leisure with their Shooting Star™ drones, Intel’s Falcon 8+ is a critical enterprise device.  Now, Intel has ventured on an expedition to deliver these instruments to China for the preservation of …

Xponential 2018‘s final day in Dever ends on a high note, focused on an important topic in our industry – drones for good.  This morning’s keynote addresses launched the winners of the AUVSI XCELLENCE Humanitarian Awards, introduced by AUVSI’s President and CEO Brian Wynne and DJI’s Managing Director of North …

What do drones, radiation and mosquitoes have in widespread? Two of this stuff can defeat the opposite. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) introduced this week the profitable testing of a drone-based effort to sterilize mosquitoes in an effort to cease the unfold of the lethal Zika virus. In cooperation …

Drones are effectively suited for saving lives and performing miracles – and the drone trade has been beneficiant in charitable endeavors.  Drone racing is to not be left behind.  The International Drone Racing Association (IDRA) has introduced that Miracle Flights, the nation’s main well being and welfare flight group, is …