Farming is practically part of Ashley Kuhlman’s DNA.
“I’ve always wanted to be in some sort of farming,” Kuhlman said. “I was always out in the field with my dad. Just to be able to watch things grow day by day is remarkable.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
SeekOps Inc. Secures Venture Funding to Scale Energy Sector Emissions
SeekOps Inc., a company which develops and fields advanced sensor technology to detect, localize, and quantify natural gas emissions through integrated drone-based systems, has secured funding from two strategic investors as part of its Series A-1 fundraising. Continue reading
Drones Can Help Lift Biocontrol in Specialty Crops
Parabug drone
Growing up and working in California’s Salinas Valley, Jaclyn Bennett has long heard the complaints from growers who want to use beneficial insects but bemoan the man-hours needed to disperse them in the field. Continue reading
Drone Delivery Canada Opens New Commercial Operations Center
Drone Delivery Canada ‘DDC’ has announce completion of DDC’s new commercial operations center, the first of its kind globally, located in Vaughan, Ontario which is now open and ready for operations. Continue reading
SAFIR Open Day Showcases UTM
The U-space SAFIR consortium, a group of 13 public and private organisations, hosted an open day on September 5th at the DronePort, Sint-Truiden and successfully showcased integrated drone traffic management for a broad range of drone operations. European Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc came to see the progress made. Continue reading
Altitude Angel to Launch Drone Industry’s First ‘Just Culture’ Reporting System
Altitude Angel, a global UTM (unmanned traffic management) provider, has announced that it is to launch the world’s first ‘just culture’ reporting system for drone pilots and operators. Continue reading
XAG Combats Pests with Crop Spraying Drones
Facing dreaded pest disease caused by fall armyworm, XAG is among the first to introduce fully autonomous drones in some of the most affected countries, such as Zambia, South Africa, Vietnam and China, to improve the control efficacy that has originally been limited to manual spraying. Continue reading
AiRXOS Completes UTM Pilot Program at Three FAA-Approved Test Sites
AiRXOS, part of GE Aviation, has concluded real-world flight operations for the FAA’s first phase of the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management Pilot Program (UPP). The UPP, established in 2017, was designed to identify the initial set of industry and FAA capabilities required to support UAS Traffic Management (UTM) operations. Continue reading