Brazil to test drone seeding in reforestation efforts
A university in Brazil has partnered with a local drone services company to integrate drone technology in efforts to restore forests in the …
January 2022
Delta Drone International divests from ParaZero
Barely two years after Delta Drone South Africa and ParaZero Technologies merged to become Australian Stock Exchange (ASX)-listed Delta Dron…
Celebrating Swoop Aero's Madi
Today we celebrate the work of Madison Jeffery, the Malawi-based Flight Operations Manager at drone logistics company Swoop Aero who recentl…
Wingcopter opens new hub in Malawi
There was a flurry of activity on a piece of land just outside Ntchisi District Hospital in central Malawi in the past few months. A grou…
A guide to Point Clouds in drone surveying
We love the below guide from Heliguy for survey professionals, which we believe survey professionals will find really useful when choosing a…
Wingcopter enters $16million deal with Spright
Weisterstadt, GERMANY – It is a good start to the new year for German drone delivery pioneer Wingcopter, which has just announced a new mu…
Brentford vs Wolves: Drone stops play
Play at a Premier League match was suspended for a significant amount of time at the weekend, when a drone materialised out of nowhere to sp…
Growing the drone logistics family
The global community of public and private entities working towards the achievement of a unified sky in the drone logistics ecosystem has ju…
Crashing into middle-distance cargo logistics
Perhaps it was just providence that the Black Swan was born amid a snow storm on International Civil Aviation Day last year – the unmanned…
2021 - The year of managing expectations?
Below is the voice of the experts at Drone Industry Insights taking stock of what the year 2021 brought for the drone industry. What did …
SOS to help fight poaching at South African national park
An environment and wildlife conservation organisation is seeking to raise funds to purchase a drone to help in the fight against poaching at…
Drone solutions for precision agriculture
When it comes to feeding the world’s ever-growing population, farmers deserve all the help they can get. To get the best out of every inch…
Drones and firefighting operations
In the aftermath of the fire that gutted part of the library at the University of Cape Town last May, drones flew in to assess the damage. …
LiDAR technology and drones
American industrial drone maker Microdrone recently showcased the LiDAR capabilities of their new drone, which the Mississippi Department of…
New autonomous precision agriculture solutions from XAG
Chinese precision agriculture solutions provider manufacturer XAG has released a new set of agricultural drones, which it believes will help…
Drone technology in the classroom
From Scott Buell, Founder and CEO, Drone Legends Every time something new, innovative or high-tech comes into the picture, the Science, T…
Crowd-droning and the fight against malaria in Malawi
Malaria has been a deadly scourge of a disease, especially to citizens of low-income countries. Transmitted through the bite of the femal…
EHang launches 5G-enabled drone port in China
Guangzhou, CHINA – Drone manufacturer, EHang has partnered with the Guangzhou Development District Communications Investment Group (GDDCI)…
Canada: Enforcing the law from above
Toronto Police's drone programme taking policing to new levels Imagine growing up in the Roaring 20s — a time when automobiles had rece…
Fighting Yellow Fever in the DRC
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government joined hands with non-profit organisation VillageReach in 2020 to launch the Drones for He…
Drone helps save cardiac arrest patient in Sweden
A drone has helped save the life of a Swedish man who suffered a cardiac arrest recently. The 71-year-old resident of Trollhättan in the…
Drone technology in 2021
On its outlook, 2021 was a year which we hoped that one thing that had dragged our lives back in 2020 would finally be on its way to hell. &…
African drone start-ups' contribution to earth observation
It was a good end of year for Astral Aerial Solutions and a few other drone-based start-up companies that scored big at the 2021 Africa Afri…
Marijuana-laden drone crashes into home
Imagine getting an unwanted and equally unsolicited present for the holiday season. That was exactly what a Mansfield, Ohio (USA) residen…