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At today’s AUVSI XPONENTIAL Virtual Conference, the Airborne International Response Team (AIRT) and DRONERESPONDERS is making an announcement that could save lives all over the world. Emergency response remote pilots, their equipment, and public safety UAS programs will be listed together in a geo-referenced database to enable disaster management teams to find the resources they […] The post AIRT Building World’s Largest Air Force of Emergency Response Remote Pilots and Drones appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Don’t Miss: Women in Advanced Air Mobility, May 20th, 2021 It’s no secret that women are under-represented in the aerospace industry: but the drone industry has a lot to offer women interested in a professional career. “Now, Wisk Aero, Women and Drones, and the Canadian Advanced Air Mobility Consortium in collaboration with 20 other organizations, […] The post Women in Advanced Air Mobility: Building a New Industry appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

A major news announcement from US drone maker Skydio introduces the Skydio Cloud: and says the highly anticipated X2 is shipping now. Skydio X2 Shipping Now “Skydio, the leading U.S. drone manufacturer and world leader in autonomous flight technology, today announced it is now shipping Skydio X2 drones with dual color/thermal sensors to defense, public […] The post Skydio X2 Shipping Now – and Introducing Skydio Cloud appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

A drone safety management system (SMS) is critical to building a culture of safety in the organization. Safety expert Fred Roggero explains how to develop an effective SMS. Don’t Fly Blind – The Four Pillars of Safety Management By: Dawn M.K. Zoldi (Guest Contributor) A solid Safety Management System (SMS) will drive an organization’s safety […] The post Building a Drone Safety Management System: The Four Pillars appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Drone logistics and delivery expert Wing helped local troops deliver Girl Scout Cookies by drone this spring. Delivering in Christianburg, VA as part of the FAA Integration Pilot Program and now the BEYOND program, Wing has made extraordinary efforts to work with the community of Christianburg, VA. As a result, new research from VA Tech […] The post Girl Scout Cookies by Drone: Wing Helps Local Troop Deliver [VIDEO] appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

By: Dawn M.K Zoldi The buzz around drone swarms, multiple unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) capable of coordinating their actions to accomplish shared objectives, has created a bad image in the minds of many. “Swarm” has a negative connotation, evoking images of killer bees, hornets and other things that sting, hurt and, in some cases, kill. […] The post Drone Swarms: the Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

A project using drones for trash clean up in Denmark could show the way to saving the oceans from an environmental disaster caused by the massive volume of plastic that pollutes them. (Part two of a two-part series on the use of drone-captured images and machine-learning software in the cause of cleaning up the environment. […] The post Drones for Trash Clean Up in Waterways Could Save the Oceans appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Parrot and Rapid Imaging brings AR situational awareness to professional drone users Advanced geospatial augmented reality overlays now compatible with ANAFI platform drones Parrot, the leading European drone group, announced today its partnership with Rapid Imaging – a technology provider delivering geospatial augmented reality (AR) and situational awareness solutions to government and enterprise users. The new […] The post Parrot and Rapid Imaging: Augmented Reality for the ANAFI Platform appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Are drone swarms for firefighting the future of fire supression? New work from engineer and mathematician Elena Ausonio and a team of Italian researchers suggests that they could be. The following is a guest post by Max Lenz, Executive Editor and project manager at the Berlin-based DroneMasters Boost GmbH and editor of the weekly DroneMasters […] The post Drone Swarms for Firefighting: the Future of Fire Supression? appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Photogrammetry experts Pix4D has launched survey-grade 3D modeling on mobile devices with RTK accuracy. The viDoc RTK rover enables ground-based RTK-grade 3D scanning with iOS mobile phones and tablets through the Pix4Dcatch app. “Conceived by viGram GmbH., a German company led by professional surveyors, the viDoc RTK rover is designed with an eye for accuracy and works […] The post Generate 3D Models on Mobile Devices with 5cm Accuracy: New from Pix4D, the viDoc RTK Rover appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Meet the Wingcopter triple drop delivery drone, the Wingcopter 198. The German developer, manufacturer and service provider says that the new Wingcopter triple drop delivery vehicle could set a new industry standard in the competitive drone delivery sector. “The Wingcopter 198 is an all-electric, vertical-take-off-and-landing (eVTOL), fixed-wing drone that has been designed from the ground up to meet […] The post Wingcopter Triple Drop Delivery Drone appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Joby Aviation’s vision for aerial ride-sharing could make your commute five times faster – as well as cleaner, safer, and better for your city. Read on to learn more about the Joby S4. Aerial Ride-Sharing – The Joby Perspective on UAM By: Dawn M.K. Zoldi, Guest Contributor This week at the Electric & Hybrid Aerospace […] The post Aerial Ride-Sharing: Joby Aviation on Safety, Noise, and the Future of Your Commute appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

The nation’s leading consumer electronics and top unmanned aviation orgs are not huge fans of avigation easements. Note: That’s not a typo, but we’ll explain. The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) today issued a statement of “concern” about avigation legislation in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and West Virginia […] The post Avigation is not a typo; it’s a threat to drone ops say two industry orgs appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

The combination of AI-powered software and drones for the environment is incredibly effective. In this first part of a two-part series, read about how researchers in San Francisco are using drone imagery to help clean up San Francisco’s estuaries. Researchers use drones, machine-learning algorithms to battle trash By Jim Magill (Part one of a […] The post Drones for the Environment: Battling Trash in San Francisco Estuaries appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

DRONERESPONDERS Public Safety Summit is at AUVSI Xponential again this year, in both the virtual and live formats. “The Airborne International Response Team (AIRT), the leading 501(c)3 organization supporting Drones For Good™ during emergencies and disaster response operations, today announced a continuation of their partnership with AUVSI, the world’s largest non-profit organization dedicated to […] The post DRONERESPONDERS Public Safety Summit is Back at AUVSI XPONENTIAL appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Doosan hydrogen drones will take flight in the Netherlands, testing offshore solutions including drone delivery, marine monitoring, and search and rescue. South Korean Doosan Mobility Innovation (DMI) has penned a deal with Dutch government agency NHN (Development Agency Noord-Holland Noord, NHN), a regional development organization and governing agency for maritime economic development support project METIP. As […] The post Doosan Hydrogen Drones Take Flight in the Netherlands appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Public perception of drone delivery has, until now, been relatively poor. Studies in the U.K. and elsewhere have indicated that at best roughly half of people living in communities surveyed didn’t see the point. That’s because they’d never seen or received a drone delivery, apparently. New research from Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership (MAAP), a federally-designated […] The post Public Perception of Drone Delivery: New Research from Virginia Tech Reveals What People Really Think appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Is a Certificate of Authorization (COA) the right way for your public safety department to operate? Here, Steve Rhode discusses when and why it may be appropriate – or not – to operate under a COA. The following is one of a biweekly series on public safety drone issues by Steve Rhode, Chief Pilot with the […] The post Steve Rhode’s Public Safety Drone Column: COA (Certificate of Waiver or Authorization) Pitfalls appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

April 21, 2021 was a big day for U.S. drone regulations: rules that define Remote ID for drones, and allow flight over people and at night took effect. Those rules have been several years in the making, and the commercial drone industry has, for the most part, viewed their development as a step forward. What’s […] The post Remote ID and Flight Over People are Here: What’s Next for U.S. Drone Regulations? Hogan Lovells’ Lisa Ellman, Arjun Garg appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Automated drone solutions are among the fastest growing sectors in the commercial drone industry. Now, the CIRC drone-in-a-box solution has arrived in Europe as a new player in the field. Based in Taiwan, Coretronic Intelligent Robotics Corporation (CIRC), is already established in Asia as a specialist AI drone-in-a-box (DIB) provider, offering services for the security, […] The post The CIRC Drone-in-a-Box Solution Lands in Europe appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

While the U.S. chose not to go the route of networked Remote ID, Europe went a different way in developing their UTM program, U-Space. The newly published NetworkCoverage Service Definition will help European drone operators, aviation systems, and telcos communicate: and the European drone industry to advance towards complex operations. Connecting the Dots – Network […] The post NetworkCoverage: Network Solutions Enabling Complex Drone Ops in Europe appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

The Iris Automation Casia® X is the next evolution of Iris’ onboard detect and avoid system for drones. Ground-based detect and avoid systems are difficult to move and to scale. The Iris Automation onboard detect and avoid system uses 360° radial detection, using computer vision technology. The new Casia X is “an evolution of the Casia product line,” […] The post Iris Automation Casia X: the Next Evolution of 360° Computer Vision Detect and Avoid for Drones appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

The commercial drone industry knows that drones can be a critical tool for inspections, performing dark, dirty and dangerous jobs and providing enteprise customers with precise digital inspection data – but in many industries, drones haven’t yet uprooted traditional methods of inspection. A new Skydio whitepaper uses interviews with more than 100 organizations to explain why, and […] The post Skydio Whitepaper: Why Have Most Drones Failed to Uproot Traditional Methods of Inspection? appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Part 89 – the ruling that contains Remote ID for drones – becomes effective April 21, 2021, and the clock starts ticking for compliance. Here’s a clear expanation of the requirements for operators and manufacturers. The following is a guest post by Ronald E. Quirk, Head of the Drone/UA Regulatory Practice and Internet of Things and […] The post Part 89 Remote ID for Drones is Effective April 21, and the Clock Starts Ticking – Everything You Need to Know. appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

In a first foray of Wingcopter in Japan, the German drone manufacturer and service provider has partnered with All Nippon Airways (ANA Holdings Inc, ANA HD) to trial drone delivery to the island communities of Japan. This is the latest big news from Wingcopter, which has risen rapidly in the drone delivery domain. Earlier this […] The post Wingcopter in Japan: Partnership with ANA HD Trials Drone Delivery to Japan’s Remote Island Communities appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article