Featured – Agriculture

Image by Harald Landsrath from Pixabay “It is important for startups to pursue their business, given the current global situation,” writes Delair’s Laurence Collet.  We couldn’t agree more.  In a far from normal environment, business still continue to form partnerships that will drive both the drone industry and other sectors …

License: cc0 With a wide and global customer base, drone mapping platform DroneDeploy is continually identifying new uses for drone technology.  Precision agriculture was one of the early adopters of drone technology: and now, more vineyards are adopting drones to make better wine. It’s not the romantic view of the …

Precision agriculture is reaching new heights.  Agriculture has been a major vertical for commercial drones since the industry took off: and now, sophisticated analytics and software combine with evolved drone solutions to allow for new breakthroughs. At the annual ISF World Seed Conference held next week, French drone solution company …

Originally published by Rhonda Brooks on Farm Journal Magazine.  Re-published with permission from the author in its entirety. From Wiki Commons “Wind and hail took a big yield bite out of one of Mason Lantrip’s cornfields last summer. When the insurance adjuster showed up to verify the claim the two …

SimActive Inc.,  recently announces the expansion of its network of resellers for medium format licenses. The new strategic alliances allow them to address the growing market need for processing imagery from medium format sensors. Partners include firms such as LiDARUSA, who offers SimActive’s Correlator3D™ to complement Phase One cameras. This …

One lesser known commercial usage of drones: to identify, and in some cases to mitigate or remove, invasive species. Invasive species –  in this case rats – have been a problem for the eco-system of parts of the Galapagos islands for many years.  Drones have proven to be an invaluable …

Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington It’s the ultimate solution to the problem of drone flight endurance – harnessing mother nature’s power.  Researchers from the University of Washington have put a tiny sensor backpack on bees to gather aerial data. Bees are more important to farming that you might have imagined.  …

The following is a joint press launch from Parrot and AIRINOV. Agriculture is a key and fast-growing business in Africa and Parrot, the main European drone group, is  providing enterprise options, together with drones, software program and providers, to professionals of this enterprise sector. Parrot-AIRINOV teamed up with CTA (The …

Drone expertise is evolving at an unimaginable tempo today, however few new bulletins actually supply a extremely game-changing – or work altering – characteristic.  This one is totally different.  A couple of years in the past, the flexibility to create a map from drone knowledge in actual time would have …

Aerovironment, a producer of unmanned plane programs for each navy and business functions, shared particulars concerning its ongoing pilot packages that are getting into their third yr and have guided improvement of the AV DSS platform.  The firm additionally shows its Quantix™ drone and AV Decision Support System™ (AV DSS) …