So the Dakota Farm Show of Vermillion, S.D. may not be CES 2016 -- but the agricultural showcase, which concluded Jan. 6, buzzed with just as much drone fever as farmers continue to marvel over ways UAV tech can make their lives and businesses better. Case in point: Birdseye Farming, an Iowa-based drone firm that offers a number of UAV services to farmers including crop … [Read more...] about Data Drones Give Farmers Enhanced Birdseye View
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DroneDeploy Pioneers Low Cost Crop Management Solutions
Sponsored by DroneDeploy — A number of companies are competing in the growing market for aerial mapping, data capture, and analysis that appears t0 be ripe for reaping revenue in the drone enterprise space. Construction, mining, and agriculture are all industries that are primed for rapid adoption of drone-enabled resource monitoring and intelligence gathering. Of those … [Read more...] about DroneDeploy Pioneers Low Cost Crop Management Solutions
DroneDeploy Announces World’s Longest Drone Map, 1M Acres Data
While all drone technology is recent, the benefits to some sectors - like agriculture and construction - are so significant that some new applications have been broadly adopted as fast as the technology is developed. DroneDeploy, a Silicon Valley tech company that develops software for commercial drones, announced today a milestone of 1 million acres of drone data. With … [Read more...] about DroneDeploy Announces World’s Longest Drone Map, 1M Acres Data
A Rundown of Drone News for September 2015
September was a busy month in the drone world. Unfortunately, some of us were out of the office for a chunk of this busy month. (I'm not saying it was me, but I am also not not saying it was me). So, here is a quick rundown of some of the headlines from the drone world we missed in September, 2015: DJI has released a pair of new camera attachments for the Inspire 1 … [Read more...] about A Rundown of Drone News for September 2015
DroneDeploy Announces $9M Series A, Exits Beta
On Tuesday, San Francisco-based DroneDeploy announced the closing of a $9 million round of Series A funding lead by Emergence Capital in addition to the release of its drone fleet management service, which had been in beta for quite some time. DroneDeploy's software-as-a-service allows users to create and manage autonomous flight plans for multiple drones on a mobile device … [Read more...] about DroneDeploy Announces $9M Series A, Exits Beta
