Skyfire to Develop LA Fire Department’s UAV Program

Skyfire Consulting, a public safety-focused drone company, kicked off 2018 by gaining the FAA’s sign-off on the Los Angeles Fire Department’s in-house UAV program. LAFD, one of the nation’s busiest fire/rescue agencies, put their trust in the four-year-old consulting company, based on their proven track record of success with FAA filings in the public safety space. Continue reading →

Insitu and Amazon Web Services Demo Large Data-set Pre-processing without Internet Connectivity

This LiDAR image was taken in less than one hour of flight, during which more than one linear kilometer of a wall was mapped, providing the customer with easy-to-access, actionable data that can be shared across its state-based operations in Australia.

Insitu, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, recently celebrated a successful trial deployment of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Snowball Edge in Queensland, Australia. AWS Snowball is a service that accelerates transferring large amounts of data into and out of AWS using physical storage appliances, bypassing the internet. Continue reading →