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Conservation

Using Drones to Monitor Salt Marsh Shorelines

Drones are now a vital tool in assessing the health of salt marshes which are crucial for the ecosystem. Salt marshes provide a critical habitat for many species, decrease storm surge by...

News

Deep Learning-Based Real-Time Multiple-Object Detection and Tracking via Drone

Target tracking has been one of the many popular applications that an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is used for, in a variety of missions from intelligence gathering and surveillance to reconnaissance missions....

Construction & Mining

Kespry and DroneBase Announce Partnership to Expand Drone Program to Insurance and Mining

Kespry, a drone-based aerial intelligence solution provider, and DroneBase, a drone services company, have announced a partnership to enable insurance, mining, and aggregates enterprises across North America to expand aerial analytics implementation...

Autonomous

First Ever BVLOS Drone Operation Without Visual Observers

The University of Alaska’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Pilot Program (UASIPP) conducted the first ever beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) drone operation without visual observers, an industry milestone powered by Iris Automation’s on-board, and Echodyne’s...

The Drone Wire

Grand Sky Purchases the Northrop Grumman Firebird

Grand Sky Development Company, LLC (Grand Sky) signed a deposit agreement with Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) to purchase Firebird, the company’s optionally piloted intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft system. Northrop Grumman’s...