Energy company launches large scale drone logistics operation for offshore wind farms
Danish renewable energy company Ørsted understands the power of drone technology very well; so much that it has partnered with UK-based&nbs…
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Growing problem of unlicenced drone operations in South Africa
Remember this 2021 blaze in Cape Town, South Africa, where the local drone body had to issue a warning for people to stop flying drones arou…
African Development Bank enters the drone game
The African Development Bank has introduced itself to the commercial drone world, after signing a partnership agreement with a Japanese dron…
Another bird-inspired drone projects under way
Remember how this Dutch drone start-up has tried to break onto the drone market by making UAVs that look like birds? The company is literall…
Indian company debuts survey drone
Indian drone company ideaForge Technology Limited’s mission to put the country on the world map of drone manufacturing giants took another…
Drone shatters records with 3-hour long electric flight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HN8pkJHNTU With tangible progress being made for drone technology on the actual data collection front, …
Comparing the DJI Matrice 400 and Matrice 350 in LiDAR Performance for Professional Surveying
https://youtu.be/-hVLzRZi9rk If you are in the survey industry and were still wondering whether you should upgrade from the DJI Matrice …
Drones fingered in UK prison substance abuse
Officials at a prison facility in the UK said they were putting in counter measures after drones were blamed for a rise in substance abuse b…
Armed first response to fight school shootings?
https://youtu.be/A3TBmqAzx7M School shootings are currently a serious social problem in the United States. According to data fr…
RocketDNA scores another mining deal
Aerial data solutions provider RocketDNA (WA) Pty Ltd continues to make inroads on the mining landscape in both Africa and Australia, eviden…
On inclusion: opening up the aviation industry for underserved African communities
A South African aviation expert has challenged the industry in her country to set up better plans and programmes in order to inspire more yo…
US aviation regulator awards fourth BVLOS licence
Drone-based package delivery company Flytrex has become the fourth drone logistics provider to be awarded a licence to fly drones beyond the…
Using drones for tree regeneration in Scotland
A nature restoration consortium in Scotland is seeking to quickly recover vegetation lost to wildfires by using drones to spray seeds around…
Using drones to monitor corn health
When people here of drone technology in agriculture, the image most get is that of automated aerial crop spraying machines that have made li…
South African airport installs airspace surveillance technology
In a landmark achievement for African aviation, an airport in South Africa has installed surveillance technology at its premises that is des…
Telecoms provider to use high altitude drones for wider network coverage
Japanese telecommunication company SofBank Corp has led the way since 2017, but it seems the innovative concept of using high altitude techn…
Belgian medical drone programme to deploy drones from remote operations centre
Usually, remote operating command centres for drone technology have been associated with the rise in docked drones, where a pilot can keep a…
Dreaming of sustainable drone programmes in African education
The best way to make sure an industry survives is to ensure that the next generation has enough people invested to keep it going. And giv…
Zimbabwe: Police drone pilots graduate
As drone technology adoption permeates further in government operations in Zimbabwe, the country’s police organisation has just seen 27 me…
Breakthrough tech for first response drones
Researchers at Texas A&M University in the USA have a developed a tool that is set to transform how first response drones will assess da…