Terra Drone Indonesia Performs Flare Stack Inspections for Chevron

Sumatra, November 26, 2019 – Terra Drone Indonesia, a group company of Japan-based Terra Drone Corporation, has conducted visual inspections of onshore flare stacks for energy major Chevron (PT Chevron Pacific Indonesia). The inspection was done in Duri field, one of the largest production fields in Rokan PSC, Sumatra. Using a multirotor drone equipped with high-resolution […]

Webinar: How to Effectively Combine LiDAR Data with Imagery

The use of LiDAR sensors for mapping is growing, as recent technological advances even allow them now to be mounted on drones. LiDAR point clouds are often collected in conjunction with imagery, which combined together lead to very rich datasets. This training session will discuss how to combine LiDAR data with imagery to generate orthomosaics […]

Echodyne Radars Anchor DARPA’s Urban Drone Testing

KIRKLAND, WA — November 22, 2019 — Echodyne, the manufacturer of innovative, high-performance radars for government and commercial markets, announced today that its radars were key active sensors deployed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for its Aerial Dragnet program in San Diego during the week of October 21, 2019. In conjunction with the Applied Physics Laboratory at […]

Passenger Drones: Understanding Their Varieties and Specifications

Air taxis, flying cars and eVTOLs are just a number of the popular names currently being used to refer to unmanned vehicles which are being designed to carry humans in the future. With all these names being thrown around it’s becoming difficult to distinguish between what an air taxi is versus a flying car, whether […]

Auterion and Avy collaborate in innovative VTOL UAV for BVLOS operations

Los Angeles, California, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands – November 19, 2019 – Auterion, the leading open-source based operating system for enterprise drones, and Avy, a pioneer in innovative unmanned aviation technologies with a focus on life-saving missions and applications, today announced a partnership to enable a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) drone for medical deliveries, public safety, sustainable […]

Drone Workforce Solutions approved by US Dept of Veteran Affairs to teach its vets drone technology

DWS announces today that it has been approved by the United States Department of Veteran Affairs to teach America’s veterans, through the GI bill, its drone technology training program, Virtual Reality and 3D Virtualization training program, and Agricultural and Forestry Drone Collected Imagery training program.  DWS provides these technologies through its technology school https://ift.tt/37n4oRJ; In […]

Drone Rentals Increasing in Agriculture Equipment

Guest post by Emily Folk Industries like traffic management, weather reporting and public safety use drones to monitor events as they happen. People have long associated drones — or unmanned aerial vehicles — with militaristic operations, but many civilians use them for anything ranging from food deliveries to journalism. Drone technology lends itself well to […]

Terra Drone Indonesia demonstrates Terra Lidar for state-owned construction company Waskita Karya in West Java

Purwakarta, November 14, 2019 – Terra Drone Indonesia just held a demonstration of Terra Lidar (Light Detection and Ranging) technology in one of PT Waskita Karya (Persero) Tbk’s work last October. The demonstration was precisely carried out at the Jakarta -Cikampek II Toll Road construction project in the Purwakarta region, West Java. Mapping using Terra Lidar […]

Why Green Power Installations Should Consider Aerial Inspections

Guest post by Dustin Price The green power industry is being modernized in many ways. One such way is through the increased use of aerial inspections. Aerial inspections can be used at the very start of a green power project, as well as during the later maintenance stages. Through aerial surveys, the green power industry can […]

Enterprise Partnerships with Trimble and Microsoft Drive senseFly Strategy Forward

CHESEAUX-SUR-LAUSANNE, Switzerland, 13 November 2019 – senseFly, the global leader in fixed-wing drones, has announced new strategic partnerships. The organisations include Trimble and Microsoft and demonstrate the capability and suitability of senseFly’s fixed-wing drones and drone sensors for precision agriculture. “Trimble and Microsoft are major players in the agriculture sector, and these relationships are a testament to […]

Help Map a Better Future with Pix4D’s Climate Contest

Lausanne, Switzerland: Photogrammetry software company Pix4D has launched its first ever Climate Contest. People from around the world are invited to submit a project which uses mapping to investigate or mitigate the climate crisis for the chance to win up to a $3,000USD cash prize and access to Pix4D software. From tracking melting glaciers in […]

Very Narrow Aisle (VNA) Inventory Counts using Drones in Warehouses & Distribution Centers

California, USA, November 11, 2019 — Real estate is usually the largest expense item in the P&L of a warehousing operation – whether a 3PL or a company owned one. As e-commerce penetrates an increasingly larger share of the retail industry, warehouses and DCs are being created/expanded near high population areas to enable same-day delivery, […]

Terra Drone conducts 160m chimney inspection at thermal power plant in Japan

Chiba, Japan, November 7, 2019 – Leading industrial drone solutions provider Terra Drone Corporation has successfully demonstrated its non-destructive testing (NDT) capabilities by inspecting a 160-meter chimney at a thermal power plant in Japan. The chimney inspection was conducted using ultrasonic testing (UT) drone developed by Terra Drone group company Terra Inspectioneering, a market leader in wireless inspection […]

Are 3D Printed Drones the Next Big Thing?

Drones are quickly changing from being classified as toys to becoming integral tools for many industries, but industrial versions are still costly. Each component needs to be both strong and lightweight, and shifting designs make it challenging for manufacturers to keep up with industry demands. The implementation of 3D printing and CNC machining in the […]

Major Wood Chip Exporter Now Prefers Drones to Calculate Stockpile Volumes Rather Than Conventional Survey Methods

Bunbury, Australia, November 1, 2019 –Terra Drone Australia Pty Ltd (Terra Drone Australia), a group company of the world’s largest industrial drone solution provider Terra Drone Corporation, has recently been engaged by Bunbury Fibre Exports Pty Ltd (Bunbury Fibre Exports) to conduct a volumetric survey of its Blue gum wood chip export stockpile located at the […]