Category: Equipment & systems

British startup offers retro-rocket safety system for cargo drones, air taxis

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Roger Sloman of Active VTOL Crash Prevention Ltd., a subsidiary of Advanced Blast & Ballistic Systems Ltd., presented a patented solid-fuel retro-rocket safety system for aircraft at the Vertical Flight Society convention in Philadelphia on May 16.

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Fotokite partners with Pierce Manufacturing to equip firetrucks with tethered drones

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Fotokite, a startup founded in Switzerland in 2014 with offices in Zurich and Syracuse, New York, has partnered with Pierce Manufacturing Inc., a top supplier of firetrucks in North America, to integrate an autonomous tethered "kite" drone in emergency vehicles to help provide firefighters with situational awareness.

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Spain’s Quaternium equips Benidorm police with long endurance c-drone, authorized for BVLOS

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Quaternium, a Spanish startup founded in 2013 by José Luis Cortés in València, has started a first responder pilot program with Policía Local de Benidorm featuring the HYBRiX.20 hybrid fuel-electric drone.

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Canada’s GEM Systems Inc. launches towed VLF bird for low-altitude c-drone geophysical mapping

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GEM Systems Inc., a Canadian manufacturer of high precision geophysical mapping instruments, has launched the GSM-90AVU(B), a Very Low Frequency (VLF) Electromagnetic Method (EM) survey instrument ("towed bird") designed to be suspended on a sling from a drone, at the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention in Toronto on March 3.

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DJI updates GEO 2.0 geofencing database for Europe, and the mystery of the missing nuclear plant

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China's DJI announced on February 12 that the firm would replace AirMap with Altitude Angel as the provider of cartographic data for Europe for in the 2.0 version of its "geofencing" Geospatial Environment Online (GEO) system.

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Delair launches c-drone data processing portal

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Delair, a provider of c-drones and data analytics for industry and agriculture founded in 2011 in France, has launched a drone data asset management portal dubbed Delair Aerial Intelligence with the goal of simplifying drone-collected data presentation, analysis and reporting for enterprises.

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Australia’s Emesent launches Hovermap drone payload at International LiDAR Mapping Forum

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Australia's Emesent has launched Hovermap, a LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) 3D point cloud scanning device for professional c-drones, at the International LiDAR Mapping Forum in Denver, Colorado on January 29th.

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