PLEASANT GROVE, UT - Fortem Technologies, Inc., the leader in airspace awareness, safety and security for a drone world, and Unifly, a leading unmanned traffic management (UTM) provider, announced they will collaborate to develop a joint airspace safety and security...
Ascent AeroSystems Announces New Industrial Grade Drone and Launch Customer
TEWKSBURY, Mass.-Â Massachusetts-based Ascent AeroSystems today announced the specifications, pricing, availability and launch customer for "Spirit," its new dual-rotor coaxial drone and named Huntsville, Alabama-based Dynetics as the launch customer. Â Â Spirit...
Esri President Jack Dangermond Given Royal Honor in Netherlands
REDLANDS, Calif.— Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced that its founder and president Jack Dangermond received the royal Dutch decoration, Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. Jan Hamming, Mayor of Zaanstad, awarded the accolade to...
Pecora Award Honors Excellence in Earth Observation
Two awardees have been recognized with the 2018 William T. Pecora Award for achievements in Earth remote sensing. Barbara J. Ryan has been honored for her many contributions, including promoting public access to Earth observation data. The Ozone Monitoring...
Geodata Provides the Basis, but Collaboration is Key
Karlsruhe/Munich, 29 April 2019. Municipal authorities are well aware when autumn starts. In the future, they will also know exactly where in a city each and every tree is located, its height and trunk diameter, and even the amount of leaves it will shed – useful...
Velodyne Expert Addresses How Lidar Boosts Business Value of Mobile Mapping Applications
SAN JOSE, Calif.- Frank Bertini, UAV and Robotics Business Manager at Velodyne Lidar, Inc. (booth #1420), will deliver a featured presentation on the business cases for 3D lidar technology in mobile mapping applications at AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2019, taking place on April...
Iris Automation announces Casia, the first turnkey collision-avoidance solution for the commercial drone industry
SAN FRANCISCO - Iris Automation, an artificial intelligence and safety avionics company, today announced the launch of Casia – the first commercially available computer vision detect-and-avoid solution to enable Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations for...
Ohio UAS Center, Air Force Research Laboratory to Test Groundbreaking Aviation Technology
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Lt. Governor Jon Husted, and Major General William Cooley, Commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, announced today that the Ohio Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center and AFRL...
CompTIA Elevates Presence at AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2019
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill -Â CompTIA, the leading trade association for the global technology industry, said today it will spotlight its growing presence in the commercial drone market at next week's AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2019Â conference in Chicago. CompTIA (Booth #4822) will...
Velodyne Lidar, Nikon Announce Manufacturing Agreement for Mass Production of Velodyne Lidar Sensors
SAN JOSE, Calif.- Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced an agreement with Nikon Corporation, under which Sendai Nikon Corporation, a Nikon subsidiary, will manufacture lidar sensors for Velodyne with plans to start mass production in the second half of 2019. The...
