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Guest put up by Colin Snow — Drone inspection – Shutterstock We simply launched a brand new analysis report titled “Five Valuable Business Lessons About Drones in Asset and Infrastructure Inspection” This is the fourth in a sequence of white papers supposed to share classes realized in particular industries and …

Guest Post by Colin Snow Photo – Shutterstock I simply launched a brand new analysis report titled “Five Valuable Business Lessons Learned About Drones in Mining and Aggregates.” This is the third in a collection of white papers sponsored by BZ Media supposed to share classes discovered in particular industries …

An Oregon-based agency helps the U.S. Army battle ISIS drones. Portland firm Radio Hill Technologies inked a deal final week with the military’s Rapid Equipping Force to instantly ship an unnamed amount of its Block three Dronebuster hand-held counter-drone detection and jamming methods. The settlement will permit the military 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 …

In a statement released on his blog yesterday, an LA filmmaker who was the first person to be charged under LA’s anti-drone ordinance reported that the jury had ruled in his favor. Arvel Chappell III was both the first person charged under the anti-drone ordinance, and was the plaintiff in the …

Photo via Komatsu. Equipment manufacturer Komatsu will as early as this fiscal year roll out a service in the U.S. using drones to cut down on the labor required for excavation and earthwork on construction projects, according to a report in the Nikkei Asian Review. The service, which goes by …

Guest post by Michael Plambeck, Dronethusiast.com — Once you have the drone that you have always wanted and have been enjoying taking it out to shoot as often as possible, you’ll begin to realize just how important it is to protect it from getting harmed. Weather, safe travels while moving …

Sentera, LLC, has announced the addition of autonomous UAV flight planning to its AgVaultTM 2.0 Mobile app. The added capability works with the DJI drones including the Phantom 4, Phantom 3, and Inspire families of products, providing the agriculture industry with a solution they describe as “an end-to-end normalized difference …

A new tech contest may shape up to be a perfect marriage of two emerging technologies. Last week, drone giant DJI and 3D printing service Shapeways announced a contest that challenges designer to create 3D printed accessories for UAVs with a focus on improved search and rescue products. The grand-prize …

photo: Near Earth Autonomy Near Earth Autonomy has won a NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award to develop Safe50, a software module for drones to guide them safely through the first and last 50 feet of the take-off and landing phases. The software is designed to allow safe drone operation …