It looks like a small, black bat as it flies into a subway tunnel, deploys ski-like tracks to crawl through…
Abe Peck
A Very Merry LiDAR Christmas
RedTail LiDAR Systems Verifies Tree Health for the Holidays Between 25 and 30 million Christmas trees are sold annually in…
Quantix Ag Hybrid Fields Continuous Improvement
It was unusually cold at the flight line outside of Las Vegas, but the Quantix™ drone was one of those…
Aftermath: How Hurricane Maria Became a Mother of UAS Invention
On-the-fly solutions by Duke Energy and Southern Company helped repair storm-damaged transmission lines, spurring innovation and expansion at two major…
Flying a one-foot gap
between the floodwaters of San Francisquito Creek and the base of Highway 101.
Rise of the Machines
Capitalizing on a high-tech location and forward-thinking leadership, the Menlo Park Fire Protection District has become a leader in UAS…
From War Zone To Work Zone
In 2017, 799 people died from roadside work zone accidents across the United States. Military developer Kratos Defense & Security…
SlantRange Positions Defense-to-Commercial Lessons for Ag-Precision
During a decade at General Atomics, Mike Ritter was embedded in defense solutions. Beginning there as a project engineer, he…
Resting in Peace
An NGO is deploying drones to locate and restore 1,500 Jewish cemeteries, memorials to often-vanished Eastern European communities. “Bloodlands” is…
Surveying Florida’s Integrated Highway Solution
Combining mobile and aerial LiDAR with ground surveying creatively contributed to widening a Florida road near an operating airport on…
Back to the Future in Fort Worth
Will Rogers was once America’s best-know political humorist. Born in the Cherokee Nation, his Oklahoma-cowboy persona placed him among Hollywood’s…

