Wildlife biologists and ecologists are data starved because current technologies for tracking small animals are time intensive and produce low sample sizes, said Paul Flikkema, Northern Arizona University professor of electrical engineering. NAU researchers have been...
UAS Symposium Broadens Dialogue on Integration
April 21, 2016—The FAA held a UAS Symposium in conjunction with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University this week to broaden the dialogue with industry and the public on how to safely integrate unmanned aircraft into the National Airspace System. FAA Administrator...
Call for Speakers Open for North America's Largest Commercial Drone Show
MELVILLE, N.Y.— BZ Media LLC announced today an open call for speakers for InterDrone™ The International Drone Conference & Exposition being held at the Paris Las Vegas Sept 7-9. The total number of classes, panels and keynotes is increasing in 2016 by 20% to...
Royal Navy Uses Pilotless Aircraft to Navigate Through Ice
A tiny pilotless aircraft, built by the University of Southampton, has launched from the Royal Navy’s ice patrol ship HMS Protector for the first time to assist with navigating through the Antarctic. The 3D-printed aircraft, along with a quadcopter, scouted the way...
MEMSIC Announces New Sensors in Drones White Paper
Andover, Mass.—MEMSIC Inc., a leading sensing solutions provider, today announced the availability of a new whitepaper that spotlights and explains the various types of sensors and sensing technologies found in a typical drone product. The new whitepaper can be...
Cloud-Seeding UAS Successfully Tested in Nevada
A team of Nevada scientists and unmanned aircraft system (UAS) engineers successfully flight tested the first-ever autonomous cloud-seeding aircraft platform.
3DR Announces Site Scan Aerial Analytics Platform for Data Collection and Cloud Analysis
Berkeley, Calif., March 7, 2016—3DR today announces the release of Site Scan, an aerial analytics platform that enables customers to safely, quickly and easily inspect, survey and scan work sites with the Solo smart drone and seamlessly deliver that data to the...
Kespry Announces Woolpert as Latest Commercial Drone System Customer
MENLO PARK, Calif., Jan. 26, 2016– Kespry Inc., which designs automated drone systems for commercial use, today announced that it has been selected by Woolpert to provide commercial drone systems to support the company’s site surveying and mapping needs. Kespry...
Drone Catcher: “Robotic Falcon” Can Capture, Retrieve Renegade Drones
In January 2015, a Washington, DC, hobbyist accidentally flew his DJI Phantom quadcopter drone over the White House fence and crashed it on the lawn. Two years earlier, a prankster sent his drone toward German prime minister Angela Merkel during a campaign rally....
Parrot Debuts Fixed-wing DISCO Drone at CES 2016
Parrot worked with SenseFly to develop a lightweight fixed-wing imaging drone that they have debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. The Disco is a fast, smart, ultra-light drone with around a 45-minute fly time. https://youtu.be/imtqooJj0I4...
