The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has signed Space Act Agreements with 17 aviation companies to move forward in a…
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LiDAR in mapping market expected to pass $4 billion by 2026
The global market for LiDAR in mapping surpassed $900 million in 2019, and is expected to surpass $4 billion by…
New Satellites Could Enable Fast Drone Data Turnaround
New mega-constellations of satellites will soon enable the fast, cost-effective transmission of drone imagery from even the most remote farm fields.
The Fruits of Digital Labor
Commercial pesticide and herbicide application methods take an autonomous turn.
How Will Drones Change Agriculture?
Bottom line up front: I don’t have a sweeping, definitive answer to this question and anyone who says they do…
Grand Sky Celebrates Five Years of BVLOS Success in the ‘Silicon Valley of Drones’
Grand Sky Development Company, LLC (Grand Sky), the first commercial unmanned aerial system (UAS) testing and training center in the…
A Massive Crop Duster Links East and West
Ukraine is too often known for strife and tragedy. But for decades, agriculture and aviation have been integral to the…
Drone Delivery Canada to Begin Commercial Testing for Cargo Delivery Drone Condor
Drone Delivery Canada (DDC) is set to start commercial testing for Condor, the company’s heavy-lift, long-range cargo delivery UAS. The…
Drones Go to the Front Lines of Coronavirus Combat
China’s health authorities have put robots and drones on the front lines to help control the spread of the coronavirus. …
Satellite 2020 Covers GNSS, GPS, Geospatial Intelligence and More
The Satellite 2020 conference convenes March 9–12 in Washington, DC, with an industrial exhibition running March 10–12.
NASA and Collins Aerospace advance UAS operations safety
Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp., is one step closer to completing a nine-year project with NASA…
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…
Norway to Install UAS Traffic Management System at 18 Airports
Norway’s air navigation service provider Avinor awarded a contract for UAS traffic management (UTM) to Frequentis. The two organizations will…
Kickstarter Campaign for New Drone Battery Monitor
Kickstarter is now hosting a campaign to develop the BatMon, a petite monitor that can be added to an existing…
Extended Range: VECTOR Autopilot Flies Nearly 200 Miles
Beyond visual line of site restrictions (BVLOS) are the thunderheads of UAS flying, clouding the prospects of long-range flying. While…
NDSU Puts Focus on Livestock as Part of Precision Ag
When thinking about precision agriculture, crop monitoring and management is what typically comes to mind. But livestock management is also…
Stratospheric UAV Serves Internet to Remote Regions
Loon and HAPSMobile have developed a communications payload for HAPSMobile’s HAWK30, a solar-powered unmanned aircraft system (UAS) that flies in…
