Huangling, which is a countryside destination in Wuyuan County, Jiangxi Province, China, has partnered with DJI to launch an aerial photography base in the village.
The airspace around the village will be open to UAS enthusiasts, giving them the opportunity to use their systems for video-taking and photography purposes.
“We are thrilled to work with DJI to give visitors an exciting new way to view and appreciate the beauty of Huangling,” says Wu Xiangyang, CEO of Wuyuan Rural Culture Development Co., Ltd.
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Join thought leaders from Facebook, NASA, Gryphon Sensors, IATA, Airbus SV, ANRA Technologies, Silicon Valley AUVSI, venture capitalists, and many other leading scientists, innovators, and elected officials as we study the landscape of UAM at the chapters annual conference.
The Hiller Aviation Museum will be closed to the public to host this 1st annual event November 2, 2017. Attendees will not only get to tour this iconic museum, they will also have an opportunity to take pictures with the AVIATO car from HBO’s hit show, Silicon Valley. Box lunches will be provided, as well as refreshments throughout the day.
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FlightWave to announce MAPIR as first partner in its Payload Partner Program
When FlightWave Aerospace Systems, Inc. introduced its premier system, the FlightWave Edge UAS, back in August, the company highlighted its “Payload Partner Program,” which is an initiative to “open-source an integration kit for the Edge’s payload/nosecone.”
With the goal of the program being to give customers their own unique flight experiences and functionalities while using the Edge UAS, FlightWave will announce its first partner in the program, a company named MAPIR, during the Drone World Expo on Wednesday, Oct. 4.
“We picked MAPIR as our very first partner because their company shares our approach to serving the UAS marketplace,” says FlightWave CMO Edmund Cronin.
Northrop Grumman to provide in-service support for CUTLASS EOD remotely controlled vehicle
After being awarded a 24-month contract from the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) Special Projects Search and Counter Measures team, Northrop Grumman will provide “in-service support” of the CUTLASS Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) remotely controlled vehicle.
The work will be an extension of the existing in-service support contract for CUTLASS, and will be conducted at Northrop Grumman’s Coventry facility, which is where Northrop Grumman provides life cycle support for all of its EOD unmanned ground systems.
New Jersey’s Mercer County Community College and ABJ Drones launch UAS pilot certification program
Thanks to a partnership with ABJ Drones, Mercer County Community College (MCCC) in West Windsor Township, New Jersey is introducing a new program to provide certification for UAS pilots.
ABJ, which is a provider of UAS and commercial UAS services, will provide the instructors for the program, as well as the most up to date, hands-on UAS technology.
ABJ will also include MCCC students in its network of commercial UAS pilots, with opportunities for employment after they complete the UAS curriculum.
Ford and Lyft partner to work on self-driving vehicles
Ford and Lyft have announced a new partnership that will “help both companies progress toward a more affordable, dependable and accessible transportation future” using self-driving vehicles, according to Sherif Marakby, Ford Vice President, Autonomous Vehicles and Electrification.
Geomni launches UAS service for property inspections
Geomni, which is a Verisk Analytics business that is centered around an “address- and location-based database of property-related analytics,” has announced a new service in which customers can dispatch a licensed, qualified UAS pilot to collect imagery and data about a structure.
Using the data collected during the UAS inspection, a Geomni Property data package is created. The package includes “ultrahigh-resolution imagery and 3D exterior roof and wall details that fully integrate with North America’s most widely used repair estimating system.”
The data collected during the inspection augments the data available from Geomni’s expansive database of imagery collected across the country by the company’s fleet of aircraft.
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PSA Security Network named first authorized distributor of the Sharp INTELLOS A-UGV
Sharp Robotics Business Development (SRBD), which is a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation (SEC), has announced the appointment of PSA Security Network as the first authorized distributor of the Sharp INTELLOS Automated Unmanned Ground Vehicle (A-UGV).
PSA Security Network is a division of PSA, which is the “world's largest systems integrator cooperative made up of the most progressive security and audio-visual systems integrators in North America.”
