How The U.S. Department Of The Interior’s New Drone Policy Hurts America

In its broad mission to effectively manage over 500 million acres of land across the United States and its territories, the Department of the Interior has in recent years turned to drone technology to help get the job done. The DOI’s fleet of 810 civilian drones – only about 20 percent of ...

Microdrones And ESP Associates Showcase mdLiDAR3000 Workflow In 3 New Videos

Microdrones , in collaboration with ESP Associates , has launched a new series of three videos featuring the mdLiDAR3000 drone and the "plan, fly, process and visualize" workflow, unmatched in the industry. The three videos can be viewed on the Microdrones website by clicking on the follow...

FoxFury Lighting Solutions and Sundance Media Group: Using Drones to Map a Crime Scene

On Wednesday January 23th, 2019, Sundance Media Group along with FoxFury Lighting Solutions, Westwind Unmanned Vehicles, Yuneec Aviation, Pix4D, and Autel Robotics hosted a nighttime drone crime scene investigation demonstration in Henderson, Nevada. Recreating a homicide scene at a local ...

Students Partner With Soldiers To Learn About Drones, Tech Careers

Young professionals in the civilian and military unmanned aerial systems (UAS) worlds came together Feb. 7, 2019, at Fort Riley.Students from the Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus toured 1st Infantry Division UAS facilities, meeting with Soldiers and learning about the Shadow and Gray ...

Drones Shown To Make Traffic Crash Site Assessments Safer, Faster And More Accurate

Idling in a long highway line of slowed or stopped traffic on a busy highway can be more than an inconvenience for drivers and highway safety officers.It is one of the most vulnerable times for “secondary accidents,” which often can be worse than an original source of the slowdown, accord...

Hybrid Air Vehicles Awarded Production Approval From The Civil Aviation Authority

As 2018 came to a close, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) awarded Hybrid Air Vehicles Ltd a Production Organisation Approval. Following the successful award of our Design Organisation Approval from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) in October 2018, this latest achievement sees HAV ...

FPT Supports Forvola Breaking Guinness World Record of Heaviest Load Carried by Drone

Forvola’s megadrone lifted a box full of FPT Industrial spare parts weighing 101 kg to a height of almost 1.5 m for more than 1 minute and 3 seconds, breaking the previously held record. FPT Industrial and Forvola broke the Guinness World Records for the heaviest payload lifted by a ...

ANSI Standardization Roadmap for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Published

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) announced today the publication of the Standardization Roadmap for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Version 1.0). The roadmap was developed by the Institute's Unmanned Aircraft Systems Standardization Collaborative (UASSC), a group established to ...

Energy Drone Coalition Releases Inaugural “Drones in the Energy Industry” Benchmark Survey Results

The Energy Drone Coalition, powered by InnovateEnergy, and DRONEII.COM are pleased to announce the release of their joint report, “Drones in the Energy Industry."  This independent report on the oil & gas, power/utilities, chemical and petrochemical UAV industry finds a market in ...