AirMap and senseFly Partner to Enhance Safety of Commercial UAS
AirMap and senseFly have announced a partnership that will result in AirMap providing its airspace services to senseFly’s eBee fixed wing UAS and albris quadcopter.
Through the partnership, senseFly’s UAS will have access to critical information, including real-time alerts regarding close manned air traffic flying in the surrounding airspace, the locations of crucial infrastructure, and airspace rules and advisories, to ensure safe UAS operations.
This information will be provided by AirMap’s airspace platform services, which will be installed upon senseFly’s eMotion flight and data management software.
senseFly UAS will also have the opportunity to leverage AirMap’s flight planning tools for Unmanned Traffic Management, including the technology to give senseFly UAS the ability to submit digital flight notices to 125+ airports.
“By partnering with AirMap and adding industry-leading airspace intelligence to the mix, we are taking another big leap forwards and ensuring that our customers’ commercial drone operations are safer and more effective than ever,” says senseFly’s CEO Jean-Christophe Zufferey via press release.
In a statement to AUVSI, AirMap’s CEO Ben Marcus says, “with AirMap, drones and their operators can access and share the data they need to fly safely in low-altitude airspace. The work we are doing with our investor partners, senseFly and others is an important step toward fully opening up the skies for drones and making safe, scalable drone services a reality.”
Shortly after this partnership was announced, AirMap announced that it has closed its Series B funding round, which raised $26 million to open the airspace. This funding round was led by Microsoft Ventures, and included other participants from Airbus Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Rakuten, Sony, and Yuneec.
Aside from welcoming these new partners on board, AirMap also says it has plans to open offices in Berlin, Germany, and at the NASA Ames Research Center in California.
