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FLIR has unveiled a new line of unmanned aerial system payloads for its SkyRanger and SkyRaider drones. The new line launches with two multi-sensor products: StormCaster-T, which delivers continuous zoom and longwave infrared (LWIR) imaging, and StormCaster-L, which provides ultra-low-light imaging, tracking and mapping. Back in January, FLIR completed the …

Open source is gaining ground.  Following on last month’s news of a new product from GE,  open source solution provider Auterion announces another new collaborative product.  Auterion and Avy introduce the Wingdrone, a fixed-wing, VTOL aircraft powered by an open source based operating system. The market has multiple reasons for interest …

Drones have many significant benefits for public safety organizations.  They provide a means of keeping police and firefighters out of harm’s way in certain circumstances – and they hold many benefits for the citizens that first responders serve. Public safety organizations face significant hurdles in getting drone programs off the …

Guest Post: This article published with permission from our friends at DroneII, Drone Industry Insights. Article authored by Kay Wackwitz. Air taxis, flying cars and eVTOLs are just a number of the popular names currently being used to refer to unmanned vehicles which are being designed to carry humans in …

Blue Stahli Luân [CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons] Two House Republicans have a real problem with the Department of Homeland Security’s plans for drone mitigation. This past week. Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) and Rep. Mark Rogers (R-Ala.) sent a letter to Acting Secretary Chad Wolf warning DHS that a …

Source: Drone Delivery Canada Toronto-based Drone Delivery Canada is partnering with Air Canada and the Edmonton International Airport to launch the world’s first airport-based, drone-delivery hub. Edmonton Regional Airports Authority and DDC will build flight routes from EIA using the drone firm’s DroneSpot takeoff and landing zones utilizing DDC’s drone flight …

Adam Kliczek, CC BY-SA 4.0 Europe’s leading drone conference, Amsterdam Drone Week, takes place December 4 – 6: and the EASA High Level Conference on drones meeting there could have a major impact on the global drone industry. In addition to being a global center for the discussion of urban …

Flight beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) is being tested intensively now, as regulators and technology providers partner to demonstrate that drone flights can be conducted safely without visual observers. Usually, longer BVLOS flights require some sort of ground-based system like radar to protect the area from any other aircraft …

Source: senseFly Fixed-wing drone company senseFly is teaming up with Microsoft to optimize food production worldwide with a data-drive farming platform. The Switzerland-based company announced a new partnership with Microsoft Azure FarmBeats. No, that’s not a new set of vegetable-based, overpriced headphones.  It’s a global initiative harvesting the ambitious goal …

This week, Texas-based Fortress UAV was named one of Government CIO’s Top 10 Law Enforcement Consulting and Services Companies.  Fortress is addressing a market need that is expanding as enterprise and law enforcement fleets get bigger: maintaining aerial assets. Law enforcement and enterprise subject matter experts face numerous challenges in …