On Thursday, 1,600 people in the Silicon Valley city of Mountain View lost their electricity when a white-haired white man driving a white car flew a (white?) drone into a high-voltage wire. Continue reading
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
App Turns Drones into Advanced Search-and-Rescue Platforms
Matthew Kelly and Oisin McGrath from DroneSAR, DJI’s director of Education Romeo Durscher and DroneSAR’s Gearoid O Briain
Ireland’s Donegal-based DroneSAR, has developed unique software that it claims will revolutionise the worldwide search and rescue industry. Continue reading
SimActive Software for Precision Viticulture
SimActive Inc., a developer of photogrammetry software, has announced that Noveltis, a French company, has been using its Correlator3D software for precision viticulture. Based on multispectral drone imagery, mapping products are generated to determine vine health and detect missing plants. Continue reading
Drone Race Across Pacific Challenge
A Japanese drone start-up is throwing out a challenge to all comers for a drone race from Tokyo to San Francisco. Even if drones taking part will need AI, flight-control software, sensors and batteries that hardly exist today.
Flyox I May Move to Pendleton UAS Range
The manager of Pendleton’s Unmanned Aerial Systems Range said he expects to hear next week if the Flyox I, a massive Spanish-made drone designed to assist with firefighting, will run test flights at the Eastern Oregon Regional Airport. Continue reading
Project Wing’s UTM System Tested
On June 6, Project Wing took part in a set of nationwide tests convened by NASA and the FAA to explore how to manage the growing number of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the sky. Continue reading
UAS-Based Change Detection of Glacial Transition Zone
Glacier-related applications of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in high mountain regions with steep topography are relatively rare. This study makes a contribution to the lack of UAS applications in studying alpine glaciers in the European Alps. Continue reading
SkyX Deploys First Remote Charging Station
SkyX, the Canadian leader in long-range unmanned aerial monitoring, has announced the successful delivery and installation of its first production xStation, a unit that remotely recharges SkyX drones during missions – a key milestone in the company’s evolution. Continue reading