Among the chief public concerns voiced regarding drones is a concern over invasion of their privacy. A Florida firm is has released an app for Amazon Fire Tablet users to address that concern. DeTect has announced the release of its DroneWatcher APP on Amazon’s Appstore for Fire Tablets. The DroneWatcher APP makes Android devices such as Amazon’s Fire tablets into personal or … [Read more...] about Is a Drone Spying on You? DeTect Releases DroneWatcher for Amazon Fire Tablet Users
Sensors
Sentera Grows High-Precision Line With Release of Quad Sensor
Sentera hs introduced the latest update to its high-precision sensor product line, the Quad Sensor. It features 4 customizable imagers for precision agriculture data collection. In its standard configuration, the sensors offers standard Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Green NDVI, Normalized Difference Red Edge (NDRE), and high-resolution color data capture – all … [Read more...] about Sentera Grows High-Precision Line With Release of Quad Sensor
National Science Foundation Awards Grant for Drone Monitoring of Global Warming
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) of the National Science Foundation recently awarded Bakman Technologies Inc. a grant to develop a low-cost, high-performance, UAV mounted Terahertz (THz) spectrometer. These ‘THz Drones’ will be employed to perform spot measurements of the concentrations of a broad range of gases that contribute to pollution and global warming. They can … [Read more...] about National Science Foundation Awards Grant for Drone Monitoring of Global Warming
Echodyne Raises $29 Million to Bring “Radar Vision” to Drones and More
Echodyne Corp recently announced a $29 million Series B financing led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with Bill Gates, Madrona Venture Group, Vulcan Capital, Lux Capital, The Kresge Foundation and others also participating in the round. Echodyne is applying the physics of metamaterials to deliver radar vision, a combination of high-performance agile imaging radar hardware … [Read more...] about Echodyne Raises $29 Million to Bring “Radar Vision” to Drones and More