Industry Update: The Drone Market Environment Map 2019

The Drone Market Environment Map 2019 is the 4th edition of our flagship free resource, giving you the most relevant snapshot of the global commercial drone industry. In our latest edition we bring you several improvements. Firstly, we have become stricter about who we include in our map – as of now only companies, organisations, events and […]

Zing Completes its First Drone Delivery in Tampa Bay

Drone deliveries are coming to the United States faster than you may have imagined. It’s a quick, convenient, and environmentally friendly alternative to traditional food delivery systems. Zing successfully completed a fast food delivery over a half mile span in just three minutes using their free iPhone app and a standard consumer drone. This same […]

Pilot-free, Heisha C200 drone charging solutions for automated drone applications

The unmanned technology for drones has paved the way for significant advancements in the fields of surveillance, emergency response and warehouse stocking, etc. The widespread use of unmanned technology and applications has come to a bottleneck, however, and the technology and its applications cannot fully meet the demands of the entire market, the main reasons […]

Terra Drone Europe aids Djibouti in flood damage mitigation and port inspection

Djibouti, Djibouti – June 20, 2019 – Terra Drone Europe, a group company of Japan-based Terra Drone Corporation, has successfully completed a high-resolution photogrammetric pavement assessment using a multirotor drone at Djibouti’s key port of Doraleh. The 5-day aerial survey was accompanied by detailed inspections of the quay walls and the sea defense revetments at the […]

EUROPEAN DRONE SUMMIT – Conference on the new opportunities offered by the standardised European UAS market

Stuttgart/Braunschweig/Karlsruhe, 25 June 2019. According to the newly published Drone Industry Barometer 2019, there are expected to be over 400,000 drones in commercial use in Europe by 2025. This represents a major challenge for European air traffic control. At various levels of the political landscape – including the European – this development is being handled by […]

SimActive Launches New Drone Processing Service

Montreal, Canada, June 25th, 2019 – SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, announces a new drone data processing service based on Correlator3D™.  Clients can now upload full projects and have SimActive experts generate optimal results from their imagery, including DSMs, DTMs, 3D models and orthomosaics. As opposed to common cloud-based solutions where outputs […]

Uber Eats Completes Successful Drone Delivery Tests in San Diego

The purpose of the Uber Eats Drones latest test in San Diego was to demonstrate how Uber Eats will accept orders, load food onto the drone, fly the delivery mission, and drop off the package at its destination. Packages will be specifically designed for Uber Eats drones, and couriers will take the package from its drop-off […]

How Drones Are Being Used for Crop Fertilization

Guest post by Emily Folk Drones are becoming increasingly popular both recreationally and commercially, including in the agricultural industry. The commercial agricultural drone market is currently worth $80 million, a figure that’s expected to grow to $110 million by 2022. The use of drones to save time and resources is fairly straightforward, but farmers and […]

The SkyOp LLC Launches Initiative to Pair Corporate Sponsors with Local School Districts Seeking Support for Drone Training STEM Programs

Canandaigua, N.Y. – June 20, 2019 – SkyOp LLC, developer of industry-leading drone training courseware, has announced a new initiative to pair interested corporate sponsors with local school districts eager to launch high school drone training STEM programs. Following the recent release of its SkyOp Drone Training Curriculum, the company was overwhelmed with school districts excited to adopt the […]

Terra Drone Indonesia Provided Drone Training for Mining Giants: Amman Mineral and Adaro’s Subsidiary

Indonesia, June 18, 2019 –Aero Drone School, a unit of Terra Drone Indonesia has successfully completed drone training for two of Indonesia’s biggest mining corporations. The drone training provided to PT Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara, which owns the second largest copper and gold mine in Indonesia, and PT Saptaindra Sejati, a leading coal mining contractor in the […]

Flock Launches First ‘Real-Time’ Insurance and Risk Management Product for Drone Fleets

London, 18 June, 2019 – Flock, the London-based insurtech startup, unveiled today ‘Flock Enterprise’, a first-of-its-kind insurance and risk management solution for drone fleets. The product leverages real-time data to provide highly bespoke insurance policies for enterprises using drones. This data-driven approach transforms how organisations insure their connected drone fleets, offering greater visibility into flight […]

Kespry Announces Results of Aerial Intelligence Industry’s First Mining and Aggregates Customer Survey

MENLO PARK, Calif. – June 18, 2019 – Kespry, the leading drone-based aerial intelligence solution provider, today announced the results of the industry’s first mining and aggregates customer survey. Kespry surveyed its 220 mining and aggregates customers that use its platform across 3,311 worksites across North America, with 22,987 missions in 2018 alone. These companies typically use […]

THE DRONE INDUSTRY BAROMETER 2019

This whitepaper highlights a variety of challenges that the drone industry continues to face, as well as the changes in perspectives compared to 2018. These range from complicated and constantly changing drone regulations, to market growing pains.  The key difference between this year’s Drone Industry Barometer, and last year’s is that instead of focusing purely […]

Terra Drone Europe wins contract to provide UAV mapping services to Ordnance Survey

United Kingdom – June 13, 2019 – Terra Drone Europe, a group company of Japan-based Terra Drone Corporation, has secured a framework agreement to provide unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) services to Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency of the United Kingdom. Under the scope of this contract, Terra Drone Europe will provide different types of UAV […]

Amazon Prime Air Receives FAA Approval for Drone Deliveries, Unveils New Drone Design

The latest announcement from Amazon is two-fold: Firstly, the company confirmed that it has received approval from the FAA as an operator for commercial drone deliveries, and secondly, Amazon unveiled a new design for its delivery drones. The FAA has stated that it has “issued a Special Airworthiness Certificate to Amazon Prime Air allowing the […]

Drones over German cities – science fiction or future market?

Berlin/Karlsruhe, 05 June 2019. Against the backdrop of the German Federal Government’s funding programme for drones and air taxis, together with the unveiling of the CityAirbus in Ingolstadt in March, industry experts recently gathered in Berlin for a Round Table meeting. At the invitation of Europe’s largest drones trade fair, INTERAERIAL SOLUTIONS part of INTERGEO […]

MicroPilot Nears DO-178C Certification

June, 2019 – Stony Mountain, Canada – MicroPilot Inc. is nearing the end of a five-year effort to achieve DO-178C Design Assurance Level B certification for its upcoming MP2128HELI3 autopilot. This certification will simplify the task for operators of RPAS/UAVs to obtain authorization from regulators to conduct missions in higher risk areas where RPAS/UAV operations […]

New Keynotes, Sessions & STEM Program and Announced for the Energy Drone & Robotics Summit Next Week

The Energy Drone & Robotics Summit, taking place June 12-13 (with additional workshops June 10 – 11) at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott in Texas, has updated their agenda to include additional programming and exciting announcements. The Summit is excited to announce the keynote session for the release and rollout of API’s Guide to Developing an Unmanned Aircraft […]

Taiwan tests Terra Drone and Unifly’s drone traffic management system

Tokyo, Japan – June 7, 2019–Terra Drone Corporation, one of the world’s largest providers of industrial drone solutions, has successfully demonstrated to Taiwanese government officials an unmanned traffic management (UTM) system developed jointly with Unifly, a leading drone traffic management provider from Europe and a portfolio company of Terra Drone. The test run of the […]

Red Cat Announces Letter of Intent to Acquire Rotor Riot

SANTURCE, Puerto Rico, June 04, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Red Cat, Inc. (TFVR), a leading provider of distributed data storage, analytics and services for the drone industry, today announced a letter of intent to acquire Rotor Riot, an innovative technology and media company in the drone space. “This deal is another significant milestone in our strategy for […]

FlytBase White Paper on Warehouse Automation – Inventory Management using Drones

Palo Alto, 4 June 2019 — FlytBase, Inc., an enterprise drone automation company, releases a white paper highlighting the role of autonomous drones in the digital transformation of warehouses. Driven by safety, cost and revenue benefits, warehouses across the world are adopting technologies such as Internet-of-Things, Artificial Intelligence, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Drones are playing […]

Zing Launches Public Beta for Free Drone Delivery iPhone App

Zing is inviting drone pilots around the globe to beta test their new Zing Drone Delivery iPhone application. The application allows drone pilots to use any DJI drone to make autonomous deliveries. To use the Zing Drone Delivery application all you have to do is connect your drone, tap a coordinate on the map, then […]

SimActive Releases Version 8.2 for Processing of Multispectral Imagery

Montreal, Canada, June 4th, 2019 – SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, announces the release of Correlator3D™ version 8.2 with advanced processing capabilities of multispectral imagery.   Supported sensors include the MicaSense RedEdge / Altum and the Parrot Sequoia. The new version allows to register multispectral as well as infrared images automatically.  The resulting […]

Drone Technology Meets Manual Soldering

(Wertheim, 31.05.2019) “Drones are safe and reliable when, among other things, all components are correctly soldered”, Jörg Nolte, Product Manager Soldering Tools, Rework and Inspection Systems, started his introductory lecture at the two workshops on manual soldering at the University of Zielona Gora in Poland and at the Technical University in Chemnitz. The idea for […]