Ishveena Singh

A man was arrested Monday on suspicion of having flown a drone over Drottningholm Palace, the private residence of Sweden’s royal family, near Stockholm.

With the world’s second-largest forest area, Brazil is among one of the countries that has pledged to end and reverse deforestation by 2030. But since humans planting trees is a slow process that cannot meet our urgent climate goals, the South American nation is now experimenting with drones to spawn native tree species.

DJI Terra is an all-in-one drone mapping solution that contains all the resources that surveyors or project managers need to plan, visualize, process, and analyze aerial data. The software has now been updated to version 3.3.0 to improve both the product features as well as the processing speed of Terra. Here’s what’s new…

Percepto, whose autonomous inspection platform AIM was named one of 100 Best Inventions of 2021 by Time magazine, has received the green light from the FAA for beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone operations at Delek US Holdings’ refineries in Texas and Arkansas.

Skyway Technologies, a provider of air traffic navigation services for drones and autonomous aircraft, and Zing Drone Delivery, an autonomous flight platform capable of transforming DJI drones into delivery vessels with plug-and-play hardware, have entered into a partnership to provide alternative delivery options across the United States.

After making history with the world’s first pizza delivery by drone from a New Zealand store in 2016, Domino’s is once again exploring the viability of commercial drone delivery on the island country in Oceania.

US oil major Chevron has been benefiting from drone technology for many years. Among other things, the company is known to deploy drones for leak detection, internal equipment and asset inspection, earthworks mapping, project progress monitoring, and environmental applications. And now, the energy giant is looking to add more autonomous tools to its arsenal by placing a purchase order with American Robotics.

We know that the DJI Inspire line is well due for a refresh. The Inspire 2 drone has had a great run, and a lot of cinematographers consider it as an iconic device, offering plenty in terms of value. But it looks like the Inspire 2 is being officially discontinued to make way for the Inspire 3.

An Iranian court on Tuesday sentenced a French man to eight years in prison on charges of spying. Benjamin Brière, 36, was arrested in May 2020 for flying a recreational drone in the desert near the Turkmenistan-Iran border while on vacation in Iran.

Litchi, one of the most popular third-party flight apps for DJI drones, has added support for Mini 2, Mini SE, and Air 2S. If you have any of these drones, you can now plan and carry out autonomous missions or use intelligent flight modes such as tracking, follow me, panorama, and focus to get more out of your aircraft.

Flight automation software DroneDeploy has added support for DJI Mavic Air 2. This means you can now undertake commercial tasks such as inspecting facades and rooftops or mapping small sites completely autonomously with a small, affordable $799 drone.

DJI is rolling out a new firmware update that makes its latest smart controller, RC Pro, backward compatible with Air 2S drones.

The DJI Fly app has received a major update today, one that you’d definitely want to grab if you’re A) a Mavic 3 drone owner or B) an advanced user who finds the existing user interface extremely painful when it comes to adjusting the Pro camera settings.

Well, the wait is finally over. A new firmware update dropped today is set to make DJI Mavic 3 the drone it was always meant to be: an absolute beast when it comes to capturing the world from above.

National Geographic’s February cover features one of Europe’s most well-known structures – the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Captured beautifully by a drone, the cover shows the cathedral’s iconic buttresses undergoing reconstruction after being damaged by fire in 2019 (see image below). But did you know, it took photographer Tomas van Houtryve six months to get the aerial shot!? Here’s why…

DJI has dropped a major firmware update for its new Action 2 camera today. The firmware, v01.02.10.10, comes with a bunch of new features including the all-new HorizonBalancing stabilization mode, a low-power mode for time-lapse videography, and much more.

Flying air taxis may seem like a fantasy to most, but they could become a reality sooner than you think – at least in some parts of the world. A leading Japanese helicopter service provider, AirX, has placed a pre-order for 50 air taxi units from EHang, a pioneer in passenger-grade drones and urban air mobility (UAM) solutions.

By detecting and identifying vegetation irregularities at an early stage, drone-based remote sensing can minimize losses to growers everywhere. But do the current methods of aerial remote sensing qualify to be called “precision” agriculture? Not really, according to this manufacturer of multispectral sensors.

DJI has dropped a massive firmware update for the Action 2 camera – one which significantly expands the capabilities of DJI’s proprietary Electronic Image Stabilization (EIS) technology. So, with the modular camera making multiple stabilization modes available, how do you decide which one is best for you?

Egypt is famous for its harsh drone laws. But last week, something amazing happened. The country hosted its first-ever drone light show. And it did so to rally together a group of youth from 196 African, European, Asian, North American, and Latin American countries.

DJI’s popular consumer drones, Mavic Air 2 and Air 2S, have been blessed with a new firmware update today.