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“Precision” agriculture is emerging as a major commercial application for the burgeoning US drone industry. By targeting the application of farm inputs to soil and crops with the highest prospective yield, farmers can reduce their resource and labor costs, boost production and maximize their profits. Field labor is difficult to recruit and expensive to employ,... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Australia’s Swoop Aero is fast ascending the ranks of the world’s leading small cargo drone companies. Like its American counterpart Zipline, the Melbourne-based firm first cut its teeth with medical supply deliveries in Africa, beginning in Malawi, and later expanding into the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other nearby nations. From the start. the... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Drones make the perfect holiday gift for children of all ages – from tots to teens. Gift-givers have a multitude of models to choose from, with a wide variety of prices and capabilities. For some smaller children, an inexpensive toy drone may be a fun novelty item; they already play with remotely controlled cars; now... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Search-and-rescue (SAR) is among the most popular missions embraced by commercial and recreational drone fliers. Scottish Mountain Rescue (SMR), founded in 1965, first embraced the SAR drone mission in 2018 and has since made it a core capability. The group provided aid to some 740 lost or injured hikers and skiers on Scotland’s mountainous western... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Most US states located in the American “Heartland” – including Iowa and Nebraska – aren’t especially “friendly” to the drone industry. In fact, Nebraska is tied for last on the annual drone-readiness scorecard issued by the Fairfax, VA-based Mercatus Center. Iowa also ranks low – 45th. Neither state has an executive-level task force to promote... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Many countries around the world feature impressive drone “hubs” – focal points for the design, testing and deployment of UAVs in a variety of niches, from cargo delivery to conservation. But few drone hubs are as impressive as the one located at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, home to the CASCADE EPSRC... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:It’s an open secret that drones, despite their many operational, cost and sustainability advantages over gas-powered vehicles, also suffer from a potentially fatal flaw: they run on batteries, which limit their flight time, usually to about 30 minutes. While breakthroughs in battery miniaturization are appearing on the horizon, most efforts to enhance drone endurance consist... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Drones are a critical component of the U.S. farming industry’s new emphasis on “precision” agriculture. With AI-driven sensors, high-resolution zoom cameras and properly designed spray nozzles, drones can deliver seeds, fertilizer and pesticides to the areas of a farm that need them most – based on documented soil fertility and crop stress conditions – reducing... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:A person that suffers a heart attack outside of a hospital setting requires prompt attention to avoid permanent physical damage or death. Treatment by means of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and early defibrillation with an automated external defibrillator (AED) is essential for increasing chances of survival. Victims that receive such treatment within the first 3-5 minutes... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Ohio is widely known as the “birthplace of American aviation.” That’s because the Wright brothers – Wilbur and Orville — grew up in the Buckeye State and first designed and tested their aircraft there. It’s hard to imagine a more poignant place for a pioneering UAV company to establish its corporate headquarters – and to... Read More
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