News
Incredible Drone Footage Solves Antarctic Penguin Island Mystery
March 3, 2018It was a mystery that had two scientists working for NASA scratching their chins. Heather Lynch, Associate Professor of Ecology & Evolution Stony Brook University and colleague Mathew Schwaller had been examining...
Conservation
The Lone Drone on a Mission to Save Rare Nigerien White Giraffes
March 2, 2018There are only around 600 rare white giraffes left in the entire world, and now it appears their fate may depend on one little hexacopter drone. In a project funded by the...
News
AeroVironment’s Puma II AE Chosen by Royal Canadian Navy
March 2, 2018AeroVironment, Inc., manufacturer of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for both defense and commercial applications, and MDA, a Maxar Technologies company, announced the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) has acquired the AeroVironmentPuma™ II AE,...
Footage
The New York Drone Film Festival is This Weekend and Here’s Our Favourite
March 2, 2018The New York City Drone Film Festival (NYCDFF), the first of its kind to celebrate the art of drone cinematography is on this weekend. Now in its fourth year, drone filmmakers and...
LiDAR
Drones and LIDAR Aid Monitoring of Australian Forests
March 2, 2018Leading remote sensing scientists from Australia and New Zealand have been testing state-of-the-art sensor equipment mounted on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) prototypes and a helicopter in the Carabost State Forest, near Tumut. The...