AUSTIN, Texas - A new record has been set in long-distance drone delivery. On May 5, 2017, a Nevada UAS Consortium (Team Roadrunner) set the record flying a fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) over 97 miles to Austin, Texas using cellular connectivity. ...
AeroVironment and California State University, Fresno Begin Field Research to Identify Water Stress in Almond Production Using Advanced UAV Data
MONROVIA, Calif.- AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems for both military and commercial applications, today announced it has begun a year-long study with California State University, Fresno to research how unmanned aerial...
NM Group Become First to Test Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight LiDAR UAV for Electricity Transmission in USA
In July 2016, a Midwest utility completed a project with NM Group to deploy an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with LiDAR technology testing its suitability for vegetation compliance analysis. This project was the first time a LiDAR equipped UAV has been tested Beyond...
NM Group and Pulse Collaboration to Offer Electrical Power Utilities Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) LiDAR and Inspection Services
Oct. 2, 2015 – NM Group (Network Mapping, Inc), a leading data capture, analytics and engineering services provider to electrical utilities, today announced a collaboration with Pulse (Pulse Aerospace, LLC). Pulse Aerospace is the premier developer of helicopter...