NASA awarded an engineering team at Embry-Riddle's Daytona Beach campus a $100,000 grant to develop a concept for an unmanned aircraft to be powered by renewable energy (wind or solar) and fly at 50,000-60,000 feet. The atmospheric satellite concept was chosen as one of 15 winning projects from hundreds of entries for a NASA Innovation Advanced Concepts program, Phase I award.
Bethesda, Md., July 7, 2015 — The symposium program is announced for the second annual technical UAS MAPPING 2015 RENO symposium sponsored by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS). The dates of the conference are September 29 & 30,...
Auburn University's unmanned aircraft system (UAS) flight school is getting up and running following approval by the Federal Aviation Authority in April 2015. Auburn's Aviation Center has been teaching flight training for more than 75 years, and the school has embraced this next generation of commercial interest.
The 2016 United Arab Emirates (UAE) Drones for Good Award is accepting online video and proposal submissions until Nov. 1, 2015. Initially developed in 2014, the award features a $1 million cash prize and is dedicated to transforming these exciting technologies into practical solutions for improving people's lives.
San Diego, CA, June 16, 2015 — Flightline Geographics LLC (FlightlineGeo) and Tablerock Land Survey, LLC (Tablerock) announced that they have partnered to provide industry-leading premium 3D aerial imagery from Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS or "drones") for...
Bothell, Wash., June 12, 2015 — The Property Drone Consortium (PDC), a collaboration of insurance carriers, construction industry leaders and supporting enterprises promoting research and development for the safe use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) announced the...
June 10, 2015 — Teledyne Optech is pleased to announce that it has entered a partnership with Orbit GeoSpatial Technologies to resell their world-class Orbit Mobile Mapping software, giving the Optech Lynx mobile mapper a complete software workflow. In addition to...
May 7, 2015 — DroneMetrex, a developer and manufacturer of TopoDrones - unique photogrammetric mapping UAV systems, is proud to announce that it has awarded Dacosmo Company with the exclusive reseller contract in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. Dr.He Ru,...
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2015 — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today demonstrated a new smartphone application called “B4UFLY,†designed to help model aircraft and unmanned aircraft (UAS) users know if it is safe and...
Huntsville, AL, May 7, 2015 — AirGon LLC is pleased to announce a 2 day Technical Workshop for Drone Collected Volumetrics to be held in Toronto, Canada. This event will be a comprehensive overview of using a small UAS (drone) to collect and process data for...
