Commercial
Terra Drone and Hitachi Team on UAV Land-Surveying
Terra Drone and Hitachi Construction Machinery have announced a partnership to accelerate full-automatic UAV operation at construction sites.
Construction
Construction
Caterpillar Believes in Drones for Construction
Heavy machinery giant Caterpillar expects aerial surveillance technology in tandem with data analytics to drive dramatic gains in efficiency and productivity on construction sites.
Business
Caterpillar and Redbird Advance Work Site Intelligence with Drone Analytics
Caterpillar has entered into a new marketing agreement with aerial data collection company Redbird, in the Europe, Africa and Middle East region.
Construction
Common UAV Software May Not (Yet) Be Reliable for Building Safety or Damage Assessment
Researchers at Texas A&M and University of Nebraska-Lincoln have found that popular software packages for creating photo mosaics of disasters from imagery taken by small unmanned aerial systems (UAS) may contain anomalies..,
Construction
Mini-UAS Maps Buildings In Dubai
During the Robotic Technology Exhibition in Dubai, Lockheed Martin demonstrated the Indago quadrotor UAS equipped with an EO/IR payload
Testing
Nokia Trials UAS for Cell Tower Maintenance
Nokia has showed off how it plans to use drones to replace some of the inspection and maintenance work on cell towers which is currently done by human technicians.
Inspections
Turbine Blade Inspections by UAS in Canada
To inspect wind turbine blades, workers typically repel down each blade while capturing images, or try to take photos from the ground.
Regulations
Bechtel Uses UAS Technology in Construction
Bechtel has been granted permission for commercial use of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) technology by the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The permission allows Bechtel to operate UAS technology on projects in the United States to enhance construction processes within the virtual project delivery approach. “The use of UAS