Drones are becoming well established as critical tools in every kind of emergency, from fires and floods to the current pandemic. Here, researcher Millie Radovic at German-based DRONEII out... Read more
Along with everything else these days, FAA testing centers across the country have closed. But what does that mean for new pilots waiting to take their Part 107 Remote Pilots Certification... Read more
Philippe Simard, of Canada’s SimActive mapping software, started out working directly with large mapping companies – or the military. With the growth of the drone industr... Read more
Governments and researchers around the world are working on new solutions for pandemics in the current Covid-19 crisis. Drones have been important tools for applications including drone del... Read more
As quarantines, shutdowns, and social distancing regulations are implemented around the globe to deal with the current pandemic, drone companies are stepping up to do what they can. Drones... Read more
Our sister publication, DroneFlyers, recently published a helpful resource for drone fans stuck at home. Ever thought about pursuing FAA certification? Check out this post: As public officia... Read more
Drones have been used in the power industry for a few years now, but in the U.S., power line stringing is a relatively new application. It’s an application that offers massive cost an... Read more
The rise of videogrammetry is enabling 3D modeling for everyone: making the process easier and lowering barriers to adoption. The following is a guest post by Bobby Ouyang, CEO of SkyeBrowse... Read more
Researchers from Edinburgh University are using drones to study and demarcate global warming, and to determine how it is affecting glaciers in the Andes, a recent BBC article reports. DRONEL... Read more
Drones excel at taking over jobs that are dark, dirty and dangerous – and mapping the sewerage underground electricity tunnels that lie under a city certainly meet that description. N... Read more
With a wide and global customer base, drone mapping platform DroneDeploy is continually identifying new uses for drone technology. Precision agriculture was one of the early adopters of dro... Read more
Drone manufacturers around the world are struggling to meet production schedules as the coronavirus continues to impact Chinese manufacturing systems. U.S.-based Skydio assembles drones in t... Read more
The comment period for the Remote ID for Drones NPRM closed yesterday. There were more than 50,000 comments posted on the NPRM, including and 89 page comment by the world’s leading dr... Read more
Remote ID has been a charged topic in the industry. While some stakeholders feel that the proposed rule must be completely reworked, others have taken the more hopeful view that the rule is... Read more