15-Hour Flight Time – MMC UAV Launches New Record-Breaking Hydrone

SHENZHEN, September 20th, 2019/ MMC UAV launched its brand new hydrone Griflion H that features a record-breaking 15-hour flight time on September 17th, 2019 in Germany during the InterGEO 2019, the world’s largest conference and trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation and land management. It is a hydrogen-powered vertical take-off and landing drone with an integrated […]

Knowledge and Action for Planet Earth

Stuttgart/Karlsruhe, 17 September 2019. Launch of INTERGEO EXPO and CONFERENCE. Digitalisation and technologies for treating Earth sustainably. Opening ceremony in the New Palace, Stuttgart, on the eve of the event. Three days of hi-tech and know-how for planet Earth. For the next three days, everything in the exhibition halls in the hi-tech city of Stuttgart […]

How Drones Can Improve Warehouse Efficiency

Guest Post by Emily Folk Drones aren’t the sole purview of hobbyists and photographers anymore. They’re quickly proving their worth in nearly every industry, from construction to agriculture and everything in between. In some settings, drones can even improve warehouse efficiency. How are drones changing the logistics industry and improving efficiency across the board? Improved […]

Picterra Lands $3.3 Million in New Funding to Help Further Democratize Geospatial Mapping

Lausanne, Switzerland – September 17, 2019 – Picterra, a geospatial software organization that enables users to extract satellite and drone imaging insights through a combination of artificial intelligence and human expertise, today announced $3.3 million in new funding that will help further democratize geospatial mapping data. The funding will go toward growing Picterra’s team and […]

AI and Machine Learning Enable Black Swift Technologies’ Emergency Safe Landing Functionality

Boulder, CO – Black Swift Technologies (BST), a specialized engineering firm based in Boulder, CO, announced today its revolutionary Automated Emergency Safe Landing (AESL) functionality for UAS. The technology integrates state of the art machine learning algorithms and cutting edge onboard processors into the Black Swift S2™ UAS to capture and classify images, at altitude, enabling a UAS to autonomously identify a […]

Deploy FlytWare Autonomous Drone Solution for Warehouse Inventory Counts

California, USA, September 8, 2019 — Cycle counting of warehouse inventory, a labor intensive but high-value business activity, can now be done aerially, automatically and intelligently. FlytWare, an autonomous drone solution for indoor operations, is designed to be deployed for pallet and case reserve counts; be it freight forwarding sites, cargo storage facilities and warehouses […]

Master Class 3: Airspace integration – Safe integration of drones into airspace

Stuttgart/Braunschweig/Karlsruhe, 10 September 2019: European airspace is densely populated. Especially in the vicinity of metropolitan regions, the lowest airspace, i.e. the airspace up to 500 feet (around 150 metres) above ground, is already being used intensively by model and sports pilots as well as by police and air rescue helicopters. Thousands of aircraft movements take place […]

Building a Cinematic Video Rig – with Smallrig

Throughout my entire career as a freelance photographer I’d only taken still photos for my clients. However I’d recently challenged myself to learn videography and found it to be far more rewarding then I first imagined. Nowadays photographers are no longer limiting themselves to just taking still photographs; especially with the high quality video capabilities […]

Red Cat Partners with GoChain for Blockchain-Based Drone Data Storage, Analytics, and Services Platform

SANTURCE, Puerto Rico, Sept. 09, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (OTC: RCAT), a leading provider of distributed data storage, analytics and services for the drone industry, today announced it has partnered with GoChain, a provider of scalable blockchain solutions for enterprises, NGOs and nonprofits. As part of this partnership, Red Cat will integrate its blockchain […]

SimActive Software Used for Gold Mine Mapping

Montreal, Canada, September 3rd, 2019 – SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, announces that Correlator3D™ is being used for gold mining projects in Ivory Coast by Newcrest Mining Limited.  SimActive software is employed to produce dense digital terrain models (DTMs) using small format digital cameras.  Newcrest Mining also extracts high-quality contours lines from […]