The Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Integration Pilot Program (IPP) is designed to help the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) create new regulations that will enable the safe and secure integration of drones into the national airspace system. Dan Elwell, Acting Administrator of the FAA, has previously talked about how the FAA wants to work with drone…
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Using Drones to Monitor Volcano Activity and Save Lives
We’ve seen an incredible amount of new applications for small unmanned aerial vehicles (sUAV) over the past 24 months, and those range from drones that can plant trees by firing seeds into the ground to UAVs that can pick up and carry objects, but some of the most important innovations for the technology are happening…
What Does it Mean to Enable Success With Drones in Civil Engineering?
What must it have been like to be living at the dawn of manned aviation? It’s a question I’ve been thinking about more and more as we find ourselves at the dawn of a different era that is similarly disruptive. In the 1910’s through 1930’s in the United States, it was like the “wild west”…
5 Things I Discovered at Commercial UAV Expo Europe – Part II
Commercial UAV Expo Europe took place in Amsterdam this year, and it was an event that saw everything from insights about surveying & mapping challenges across the continent to innovative solutions like the hydrogen fuel cells for UAVs that BMPower is building. Before I went to the event, I published a blog that laid out…
Creating Legal Frameworks for UTM Systems and U-space Integration Across the World
Commercial drone regulation continues to be an issue that operators across the world talk about as their top concern. There are ongoing debates about whether restrictions that vary from region to region and country to country related to drone use are too strict or lax. It’s a situation that some have referred to as a…
Solving the Challenge of Multiple Drones and Hundreds of Batteries
We’ve discussed the difficulties related to the amount of time that a UAV can stay in the air, but these limitations are not stopping organizations of all sizes and types from utilizing drones to perform tasks in faster, cheaper and safer ways, or from quantifying what their ROI in the technology looks like. Doing so…