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One of the best things about life on the road is the opportunity to meet new companies and new people stretching the boundaries of what drones can do for communities around the world.  At the recent Commercial UAV Show in London, DRONELIFE had the opportunity to meet Helena Samsioe, CEO …

Amid the avalanche of product and service launches, partnership announcements and general industry news at Interdrone earlier this month, senseFly, a division of French drone manufacturer Parrot, unveiled a new modular drone for aerial mapping and surveying. On paper, the eBee X looks like a useful fixed-wing aircraft that should …

A French-based drone provider just piloted its way into a lucrative funding round with the world’s largest processor giant. Commercial drone solution provider Delair closed an expanded investment deal with Intel Capital, following a year of collaboration on the Intel Insight Platform. The cloud-based, digital-asset management system will allow Intel to …

Boeing subsidiary Insitu has revealed that its latest advancements in High Accuracy Photogrammetry (HAP) are pushing the theoretical limits of aerial photography at altitude. Last month Insitu’s latest prototype carried a HAP payload that can capture images accurate to within five centimeters (cm) horizontally and 10cm vertically. Insitu describes this …

Swiss drone producer Wingtra this week introduced the launch of the WingtraOne PPK (Post-Processed Kinematics) mannequin. Working with photogrammetry software program supplier Pix4D and PPK supplier Septentrio, the corporate says it might now present orthomosaics mapping and 3D fashions “with an absolute accuracy down to .4 inches.” Several trade sectors …

An Australian transportation company is getting an help from drone expertise to predict and forestall landslides alongside a preferred coastal space. VicRoads, a authorities company accountable for roadways within the state of Victoria, makes use of quadcopters outfitted with 3D imagery cameras to acquire knowledge, giving officers a greater image …

The Roswell Test Flight Crew met with a number of firms whereas attending Interdrone in Las Vegas not too long ago. In this episode, Patrick Sherman of the Roswell Flight Test Crew hears from Kevin Haughwout of the Brother Corporation – higher recognized for making pc printers – in regards to …

Optelos, an Austin based mostly drone information analytics agency, has introduced the launch of FlyView OrthoCompare, a software program device that allows drone service suppliers to handle the scale and number of picture information collected and delivering significant orthomosaics to their shoppers. David Tran, CEO of Optelos, mentioned “Customers have …

Aerialtronics PENSAR Netherlands primarily based expertise agency Aerialtronics has launched a totally built-in laptop imaginative and prescient platform with deep studying capabilities. PENSAR is a stand-alone twin sensor platform that makes use of the GPU-accelerated computing energy of the NVIDIA® Jetson™ module to permit for real-time video processing. The PENSAR …

Sentera has introduced new additions to its small, light-weight single sensor product household. The new High-Precision NDVI Single and High-Precision NDRE Single enhance spectral band separation and generate correct vegetation index measurements. The High-Precision Single sensor is offered in two variants: normalized distinction vegetation index (NDVI) and normalized distinction pink …