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Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have three stories for you this week: the FCC moves to block DJI and Autel chips on any drone, Amazon delivery drones are overwhelming a Texas suburb, and SkyeBrowse is rolling out new pricing.
DJI Enterprise's World Heritage 3D contest runs to October 10. It suggests national parks as subjects. In the US, those are the illegal ones.
For Project Eternal, Mihail Svilenov flew the Antigravity A1 360 drone over Ovech Fortress in Bulgaria and turned a single ten-minute flight into an explorable 3D Gaussian Splatting model with Splatica.
TUM researchers flew an autonomous drone and laser system over Sicily's Vulcano island, mapping volcanic gas with roughly 5% error to help forecast eruptions without risking a volcanologist's life.
Emesent has raised $17 million (A$25 million) in new funding to expand manufacturing at its Wacol, Queensland facility and build out two software platforms: Cortex AI, its onboard autonomy engine for GPS-denied flight, and Aura, its cloud platform for processing and visualizing 3D data. The round pairs a $7 million (A$10 million) venture debt facility…
A surveyor running an environmental baseline study used a DJI Matrice 4E and free open-source software to identify, classify, and geolocate every individual plant of 29 native species across a 130-hectare site. Pablo Carranza shared the work in the Drone Mapping and Processing group, posting annotated orthophotos that show hundreds of tree crowns outlined and…
SkyeBrowse has shipped two major updates this month that together push its drone mapping platform further into the enterprise than any previous release. On March 7, 2026, the company announced a major Flight App update expanding support to the DJI Mini 4 Pro, Matrice 400, and the full Matrice 4 series (4E, 4T, 4D, 4TD),…
For decades, archaeologists and adventurers have puzzled over what these strange formations meant. Now, thanks to drone mapping, we might
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