Major solar energy plant builder Enerparc AG is integrating high-end unmanned aerial vehicles into its operations.
Peter Gutierrez
Farming with Drones Beyond the Visual Line of Sight
Recent advances are inching BVLOS operations on farms closer to reality. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found use in agriculture…
Infrastructure Inspection – UAS Are All Over It
UAS are proving to be a powerful tool for ensuring the success and safety of all sorts of infrastructure. Insights…
Unmanned Systems Grow in European Agriculture
Unmanned systems’ global inroads are including European agriculture. GNSS for precision guidance of tractors and harvesters is already in place….
Emqopter Operating ‘First Urban Delivery Drone’ in Germany
Emqopter is a Wurzburg-based drone-technology supplier that says it is operating the first-ever drone-based urban delivery system, in Bad Neustadt,…
Bavak Drone Detection Could Have Saved Gatwick a Bundle
Last December, travelers were greeted by chaos at London’s Gatwick airport, when reported drone sightings shut runways for 36 hours…
Intelligent and Autonomous Parachute Safety System for Drones
Today’s industrial drones, along with their payloads and onboard systems, can represent a substantial investment for users. A crashing drone…
Drones Are Here And Farmers Are Starting To Get It
The idea behind Agriculture and Space Day was to make sure everyone appreciated just how much space technologies contributed to…
UK Autodrive ‘Pod’ Making it Real
Autonomous vehicle fans don’t have to look far these days for small- to medium-sized people movers under development and on…
Big Sky Europe? – Brussels View
The new EU basic aviation regulation, as it pertains to drones, sets down in stone the key principles of…
Europe Speeding Toward Connected, Automated Driving
One of the overarching themes of the Brussels ‘Connected Cars Europe’ conference was how to accommodate, reconcile and bring together…
Brussels View: Drones Show Up in Bavaria
Unmanned flying systems – ‘them drones – continue their inexorable march toward world domination. One can hardly attend a fashion…
European Space Community Embraces Unmanned Systems
The European space community is embracing its role as an enabler of unmanned technologies. “Satellite communication is becoming indispensible infrastructure,…
Europe Looking for UAV Progress
Europe was an early-rising bright star in the drone industry and it continues to shine. The continent now needs to…
Sights Set High for the Geospatial Industries
UAV-based LiDAR users came from far and wide to Montpellier for a special conference organized by French company YellowScan. Participants…
Coming to America
The French Heliceo company is bringing it’s ‘Foxy’ brand of innovative and modular unmanned surveying and topography systems to the USA.
Picturesque: Using Drones to Preserve Historical Sites
Europe’s heritage sites reflect a history that goes back thousands of years. But the old continent also boasts a resourceful and forward-looking high-tech community, including a growing unmanned systems industry.