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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.

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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 256 min read

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, Mikhail Svilanov 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.

Mikhail SvilanovAug 24

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

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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

DJI

SkyeBrowse Brings Drone 3D Models Into Your Office With Apple Vision Pro and Expands DJI Fleet Support

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),…

Haye KestelooApr 2

DJI

Drone Mapping Decodes Peru’s Mysterious “Band of Holes”

For decades, archaeologists and adventurers have puzzled over what these strange formations meant. Now, thanks to drone mapping, we might

Rafael SuárezNov 13

Pix4D

DroneDeploy Unveils AI Agents and Ground Robots as Construction Tech Pivots From Aerial to Embodied Intelligence

DroneDeploy rolled out three operational AI agents and revealed plans for autonomous ground robots at its Horizons 2025 user conference in Newport Beach, signaling the reality capture company’s transformation from drone-focused mapping platform to comprehensive construction AI and robotics provider. The announcements position DroneDeploy to compete directly with established construction tech playe

Haye KestelooOct 31

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