Agri-Drones: Transforming Indian Farming with Technology
Agriculture is the backbone of India's economy, but the sector faces challenges like erratic weather, pest attacks, and outdated farming methods. Many farmers still depend on monsoon rains for irrigation, limiting...
Pix4D Photogrammetry Software for senseFly Drones
Pix4D’s advanced photogrammetry software uses the images captured by drones to generate 3D models and maps, such as professional orthomosaics, point clouds, 3D models and more. The Pix4D...
How Might Drone Racing Drive Innovation?
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
Over the past 15 years, drones have progressed from laboratory
demonstrations...
IIT Madras students develop ‘Agricopter’ to eliminate manual spraying of pesticides in agricultural farms
The innovation will allowing spraying pesticides ten times faster and with 100% precision at the same cost as manual sprayingThe
team of three then set out to design a technological solution...
Review of DJI’s Pix4D Mapper
Product Review
We all have 2D photos, but only a few of
us may have thought of the possibility to transform these photos into an
accurate and detailed 3D model....
Surveying with Drones: The Key Differences Between Aerial LiDAR and Photogrammetry
The following is a guest post from Dustin Price, licensed land surveyor and operations manager at Landpoint: a surveying, aerial data and technical services provider.
There has been an influx of new...
Professional drone surveying applications
Terrestrial, aerial or bathymetric survey
helps in establishing plans on which the topography of a township, town,
village, urban area, agricultural area, valley, pit, open pit mine, or a
river, lake...
Capsule dropping with drones for reforestation & pest control
Until today, reforestation and pest control jobs have been performed
with traditional methods for capsule dropping. Using light manned
aircraft whose entail high costs for logistics, maintenance and
operation. In addition...
DJI recommends free Kittyhawk LAANC service for recreational pilots
Earlier today, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that LAANC
would be available for hobbyist drone pilots to gain access to
controlled airspace. DJI followed with their own announcement,
recommending the...
Spring-Loaded Drone Collapses Mid-Flight to Zip Through Windows
This drone can dynamically fold and unfold its arms to pass through narrow gaps
Late last year, we wrote about a foldable drone from Davide Scaramuzza’s lab at the University of Zurich...






































