Lidar USA’s Forrest Briggs introduces its new lidar systems for the DJI M200 and M210 drones at Intergeo 2018, which took place Oct. 16-18 in Frankfurt, Germany. Background image: iStock.com/imaginima GPS World
Skycatch has announced an on-premise data processing and GNSS base station, the Skycatch Edge1, manufactured in partnership with DJI and now available worldwide. Edge1 base station. (Photo: Skycatch) Tested and optimized for the Skycatch Explore1 and DJI Phantom 4 RTK…
AtlantecRF Ku-band drone satellite simulator. (Photo: Atlantic Microwave) Atlantic Microwave, a U.K.-based satellite communications company, has announced the maiden flight of its DSS Satellite Simulator product on board an eight-rotor drone. Off-air testing of ground- and vehicle-based satellite communications systems…
Spry Drone briefly submerges under water to flip on its belly then fly in the air like a bird (PRNewsfoto/Urban Drones) SwellPro USA and Urban Drones have released a waterproof drone, the Spry, that can briefly submerge like a submarine,…
Komatsu America Corp. and Propeller Aero Inc. are partnering to boost the efficiency of construction job sites using drone-powered mapping and analytics software. With drones becoming an increasingly common worksite tool, Komatsu has identified aerial mapping and analytics as a…
If you’ve registered a commercial drone, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) wants to hear from you. On June 19, the FAA sent a questionnaire to everyone who has registered a commercial drone – more formally, an unmanned aircraft system…
Commercial drone operators in California and Hawaii — as well as a few areas in Nevada, Utah and Arizona — now can get quickly authorized to fly in controlled airspace, Skyward announced. Skyward is an FAA-approved airspace vendor. With Skyward,…
As the dust from this year’s AUVSI Xponential show, which took place May 1-4 in Denver, begins to settle, we complete the overview we began last month and wrap up our coverage of the show. Septentrio Septentrio introduced its AsteRx-i…
Intel’s Anil Naduri discussed some of the company’s updates at Xponential 2018. Photos by Allison Barwacz Intel shared a number of updates at a presentation during AUVSI’s Xponential 2018, which took place April 30-May 3 in Denver. Among the company’s…
