Law Enforcement
Following several incidents of unauthorised flights over public monuments in France, ACE has developed a drone capable of tracking an offending drone and shooting it down. The prevention of unauthorised drone flights over sensitive areas has become a national challenge. ECA Group, a leading robotics company for more than thirty
Commercial
3D Robotics has announced the $1,000 Solo drone (or $1,400 with a GoPro-holding gimbal included) which is full of clever tools to automate and simplify shooting. The Solo, which will be available in May, is designed to be ready to fly right out of the box. This
Commercial
DroneDeploy, a start-up that provides cloud-based software solutions for commercial drone operations, has launched a new mobile app, providing users with a quick, easy push-button solution for automating drones and receiving real-time, reliable, detailed aerial maps and images. The company has also announced that, through a
Testing
Portugal-based startup Quarkson has just announced a successful test flight of its SkyOrbiter LA25 platform. Quarkson founder and CEO Miguel Ângelo called the pressure-filled test a “success” and said it has brought the company closer to its objective, which is to use the platforms to “make available high
Commercial
The U.S. Air Force has recently released this photo which shows an MQ-9 Reaper fitted with twin pods containing the Gorgon Stare system at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, prior to take off on March 20th. Hosted and flown on General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft, Gorgon Stare
Agriculture
Swiss manufacturer, senseFly, has optimised its eBee Ag drone solution, adding powerful new software that makes it easy for agricultural professionals to capture high-resolution photos of their fields, analyse crop health and create accurate prescriptions to load into their precision farming equipment.The eBee Ag now runs a new
Commercial
DJI updated its Phantom series with two new models, the Phantom 3 Professional and Phantom 3 Advanced. Both models look a lot like the current Phantom 2 Vision+, but include improvements in flight precision and imaging quality. The compact quadcopters are small enough to fit into a backpack or similarly
Commercial
Event 38, a manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles for business announced a key partnership with Dronecenter Tecnologia, a supplier of unmanned aerial systems in Brazil. Under this agreement, Dronecenter will offer Event 38’s flagship E384 drone and custom optical sensors to its clients in Brazil and throughout South America.
Commercial
The Federal Aviation Administration has approved USAA’s request to test how unmanned aircraft systems, also known as drones, could help speed review of insurance claims from its members following natural disasters. USAA is one of the first insurers to be granted the approval for such testing. “Our members have
Commercial
BioCarbon Engineering, based in the UK, has developed a system of planting trees with drones, at just a fraction of the cost (15%) of traditional reforestation methods, and at a speed that manual planting can't match - up to 10s of thousands of trees planted per day - and aims
Commercial
In nine cities in China, including Beijing, 90% of air pollution has been attributed to vehicles, industrial production, coal burning and dust, according to a Ministry of Environmental Protection report. The ministry will adapt its strategies for curbing pollution according to the different regions of the country, reports our Chinese-
Commercial
CybAero has announced its new product line, the APID ONE. The product line is based on over 20 years of experience and extensive development and refinement of the company’s earlier product, the APID 60. The product line was unveiled to stakeholders, investors and the media at the Swedish National