Easy Aerial, a leading provider of autonomous drone-based monitoring solutions for commercial, government, and military applications, announced today that it has successfully raised $6.15M in Series A funding. This funding round was led by the same private investment group that participated in the company’s initial seed rounds totaling $4.75M between 2017 and 2019. The oversold…
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DJI Airworks 2020‘s opening keynote address this morning was titled “Innovation Through Change:” and FLIR’s Randall Warnas was there to present FLIR System’s latest: the Vue TZ20 Dual Thermal Camera Drone Payload, dual thermal for DJI Matrice Series drones. “Plug-and-Play Gimbal System for the DJI Matrice 200 Series and Matrice 300 Offers High-Definition FLIR Thermal Imaging…
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“LiDAR is an important piece to the puzzle of accurate models,” said Arjun Menon, DJI’s Engineering Manager, at this morning’s AirWorks keynote. “The challenges of LiDAR have always been in the category of production,” he notes – a highly functioning, lightweight and inexpensive LiDAR appropriate for drone use has been hard to find. “We are…
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image: Public Domain DJI’s AirWorks 2020 Virtual Conference started today: one of the first of the fully virtual drone events to take place this year. AirWorks has become one of the major conferences for the drone industry, offering updates and information from the world’s largest manufacturer on new products and new partnerships, and providing…
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Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operating in the UK must meet at least the same safety and operational standards as manned aircraft when conducting the same type of operation in the same airspace. As a result, when compared to the operations of manned aircraft of an equivalent class orcategory, UAS operations must not present or create…
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AUVSI North Carolina Chapter & DRONELIFE are back again this Friday, August 28 2020 from 4pm- 6pm EST with ‘Lets Talk Drones’, a FREE and open chat room for unmanned aviators and enthusiasts. This virtual public forum is held on the last Friday of every month, for anyone & everyone who wants to talk about…
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For those who missed the big announcement last week, Airservices Australia released a Request for Information (RFI) for the development of a Flight Information Management System (FIMS) Prototype relating to the development and evaluation of a flight information management system for UAS Traffic Management. AAUS welcomes steps to advance UTM in Australia, which we consider to…
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Axon (Nasdaq: AAXN), the global leader in connected public safety technologies, today announced a partnership with Fotokite, a service provider of actively tethered Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) solutions and public safety software tools, to provide their products and services as part of the Axon Air program. This exclusive partnership will enable Axon’s law enforcement customers to…
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Ascent AeroSystems’ Spirit is a compact, all-weather, high-performance unmanned aerial system designed and built in the USA. Versatile, modular, and based on proven coaxial technology, it is the ideal platform for mission-critical operations. Massachusetts-based Ascent AeroSystems today announced that it completed the final delivery of all “Spirit” dual-rotor coaxial drones to launch customer Dynetics, a wholly…
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Altavian, a U.S.-based Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) engineering and manufacturing firm, today announced the award of a $12.2 million firm-fixed-price contract for the manufacturing and production of the Army’s TOGA hand controller. This delivery order is in the TOGA domain as part of the Army’s small UAS indefinite quantity indefinite delivery sustainment contract, awarded to Altavian and…
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