How Much Do Drone Pilots Really Make (and Other Findings) from Our 2019 Drone...
It’s been three years since the FAA’s Part 107 regulations went into effect. In our 2019 drone industry survey, we sought out to understand how the U.S. drone industry is doing — are pilots making...
View ArticleDrone Controllers: A Look at How They Work, Important Terminology, and Why...
Drone controllers are everywhere in the drone world, but have you ever stopped to think about how they actually work? Image source In this article we’ll start with the basics of drone controllers,...
View Article3,000 Drones ‘Take Off for Harvest Time’ in Xinjiang, China
‘Take Off for Harvest Time’ is an annual drone spraying operation that takes place in Xinjiang, China. This is one of the largest drone operations we’ve heard of to date. For the third consecutive...
View ArticleNavigating Drone Prices: A Guide to What to Expect at Different Price Points...
Why are some drone prices really cheap and some really expensive? Image source While the Scoot Mini Drone only costs about $30, the Intel Falcon 8+ is so expensive that Intel doesn’t publicly list its...
View ArticleWhat Types of Drones Are There? A Guide to All the Different Drone Types on...
What types of drones are there? The short answer is that it depends on how you look at it. One way to categorize the types of drones on the market is to divide them into those used primarily by...
View ArticleDay Three of National Drone Safety Awareness Week: Taking a Look at Drone Use...
This week marks the FAA’s first-ever National Drone Safety Awareness Week. To create this week-long safety campaign the FAA has partnered with the Know Before You Fly educational campaign and the UAS...
View ArticleDJI Introduces the Zenmuse XT S, A New High Frame-Rate Thermal Imaging Camera...
DJI recently unveiled the Zenmuse XT S, a new model of their thermal imaging camera, the XT. The Matrice 200 in action The new XT S is made just for DJI’s Matrice 200 series, which are professional...
View ArticleDrones in High School Education: An Interview with Jeremy Jackson of St....
Jeremy Jackson is a teacher at St. Charles West High School in St. Charles, MO. In 2019, his students were recipients of a Grow Rural Education Grant, which provides rural school districts with grant...
View ArticlePredictions for the Future of the Drone Industry: Commercial UAV News’ 2020...
A recent report from Commercial UAV News provides a sweeping view of current trends in the drone industry and makes predictions for the future. The report covers several of the big topics that are top...
View ArticleDrones and the Coronavirus: The Many Ways Drones Are Supporting Containment...
The drone industry has had many firsts over the last few years. Some of these have to do with breaking records, like longest flight times or heaviest loads carried, and some have been regulatory...
View ArticleAgriculture Drones Are Having Their Moment—DJI’s Agras Displayed at the...
DJI’s Agras T16 agricultural drone is currently being featured at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City as part of an art exhibit called Countryside, The Future. The exhibit was created to explore the...
View ArticleMavic 3 Rumors Spurred by New DJI Patents, Could also Hint at DJI Racing...
Never one to slow down in the ongoing drone technology race, DJI recently filed several new patents with the Chinese National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA). The patents cover four...
View ArticleCommercial UAV Expo 2020: 8 Commercial Tracks, AI-Powered Networking,...
Commercial UAV Expo is one of the biggest drone-focused conferences in the world, with a strong emphasis on the operation and integration of commercial drones. The company also does a great job...
View ArticleDrone News Roundup: 2019 Record Investment Year for Drone Industry, Can...
If you’ve been wondering whether the drone industry is in fact growing, a new report from DroneII covered in today’s roundup will answer that question for you. And on the lighter side, DroneDJ dives...
View ArticleFLIR’s Dual Sensor Hadron Signals Progress in Development of U.S. Drone...
FLIR recently released a dual sensor camera called Hadron, made for drones, robotics, and imaging system manufacturers. The two sensors that come with the Hadron are an RGB visual sensor and a thermal...
View ArticlePhD Student at N.C. State University Makes Customized Drone to Collect Water...
As a doctoral student at North Carolina State University, Will Reckling has been using drones to study potentially harmful algal blooms. Photo credit: Abe Loven Right now, drones are helping Reckling...
View ArticleLooking for Work in the Drone Industry? Check Out the Networking...
InterDrone is one of the biggest conferences in the world devoted only to drones, and we’ve been going for years. Every year the conference attracts all kinds of people connected to the drone industry...
View ArticleDrones for Good: 25 Inspiring Examples of Drones Doing Good around the World...
One of the things we hear all the time about the drone industry is how lucrative everyone predicts it will be (not to mention how lucrative it already is). Article after article talks about projections...
View ArticleDrones in Precision Ranching—How BeeFree Agro Uses Autonomous Drones and...
In the last few years, precision agriculture has gone from being a new, exotic term used to describe farming techniques that leverage drone technology to being fairly commonplace. Precision ranching is...
View ArticleDrone Company SeeTrees Gives Growers Data on the Health of Their Groves, Down...
SeeTrees is an Israeli drone startup that works in agricultural drone applications, providing an end-to-end service that creates detailed reports on trees and tree clusters. The company uses a...
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