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Orange WingtraRAY tailsitter drone flying low over a sand quarry with green fields behind it

Drone Mapping · Wingtra

Wingtra Ran 180 Simulations in Six Months to Design the RAY Drone

AirShaper says Wingtra simulated 180 WingtraRAY candidates in six months and gained 56% payload and 12% efficiency over the WingtraOne.

Haye KestelooOct 103 min read

DJI Enterprise

DJI Certifies First Benelux Dealer for Europe-Only Mapping Training

Drone Parts Center in Nivelles, Belgium, is the first Benelux dealer certified for DJI's GEO training. Matrice 4E and Zenmuse L3 courses now open.

Haye KestelooOct 5

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FCC Filing

FCC Targets DJI Chips as Amazon Drones Swarm a Texas Suburb

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.

Greg ReverdiauSep 25

A DJI enterprise drone hovers beside the ornate green-tiled eaves of a multi-story wooden Chinese heritage tower, with the gray-roofed old town spread out below.

DJI

DJI Opens Heritage 3D Contest. US National Parks Are Off-Limits.

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.

Haye KestelooAug 25

Aerial view of a hilltop stone fortress above a red-roofed town, transitioning into a cyan lidar point cloud

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I Used The Antigravity A1 To Preserve A 1,000-Year-Old Bulgarian Fortress In 3D

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.

Mihail SvilenovAug 24

Drone flying over Vulcano volcanic gas plume for TUM laser mapping research

Drone Research

TUM Drone Laser System Maps Volcano Gas Before Eruptions

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.

Rafael SuárezJul 13

DJI

Emesent Raises $17 Million As Australia Funds Its Drone Mapping Champion With Loans, Not Bans

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…

Haye KestelooJul 8

DJI

DJI Matrice 4E Maps 29 Native Species Across 130 Hectares In Open-Source Flora Study

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…

Haye KestelooJun 9

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