Inspection

February has at all times been nice for mapping analytics agency Esri. Last February, the California-based firm launched Drone2Map for ArcGIS, a strong software that captures uncooked, drone-based picture information and creates digital floor fashions, orthomosaics, 3D-point clouds and 3D Shareable PDFs. GIS customers who lack the photogrammetry expertise can …

A number one drone inspection service hopes to energise a worldwide utility firm. Billed as “the nation’s leading Drone as a Service operator,” Measure introduced a partnership with vitality firm AES which can deploy inspection drones in 17 international locations, saving AES cash and man hours, in addition to avoiding …

A Scotland-based drone surveying agency is making British rail service safer from above. Cyberhawk Innovations lately concluded a drone aerial inspection and survey over the Rugby rail station in Warwickshire, England – the primary inner and exterior structural inspection for the British rail community. The firm deployed sensor-arrayed drones to …

Sky-Futures cloud-based drone inspection visualization and reporting software squarely targets the asset inspection sector, but will it be broadly adopted? THE FACTS: No one questions whether the founders of Sky-Futures know what they are doing.  When it comes to drone inspections they have “been there, done that.”  You can read …

Industrial-drone automation firm Airobotics this week launched a new software developer program the Israeli company says will allow customers to work smarter with customizable new UAV mission programs. In a press release, Airobotics states that the new program empowers third-party customers to design and develop software that can be integrated into …

Eos Systems recently released a photogrammetry software package created specifically for drones. This past week, the Canadian firm announced the launch of PhotoModeler UAS 2016. The suite creates 3D imagery, maps and measurements from images transmitted via drone and integrates them with full geographic coordinate systems support. “Photogrammetry has been …

Thermal imaging is a “must-have” payload for inspection drones and TeAx Technology believes its latest product may make imaging even better. The company on Thursday released the “ThermalCapture 2.0” , an imaging tool that stores radiometric temperature data to a Micro SD card on board any inspection UAV. What’s unique …

The University of Texas is partnering with an Indian drone-software company to improve power-line inspections. Working with UT’s IC2 Institute, regional utility Austin Energy recently tested an inspection drone using software by Arcturus Business Solutions of Noida, India in an effort to better pinpoint weaknesses and damage to transmission lines …

AscTec Neo A team of robotics researchers have found a way to save the environment by dispatching drones into tree holes – yes, tree holes. In a paper presented last week at the 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, researchers Kelly Steich and Mina Kamel with the …

Two of the largest insurers are processing millions of property claims following Hurricane Matthew more efficiently by using drones. The hurricane, which rampaged through the Caribbean and several Southern Seaboard states, was responsible for an estimated 1,300 deaths and $6.91 billion in damage. Allstate and Travelers deployed several drones over …