Drones In The News 

PrecisionHawk launches The Algorithm Marketplace

  The Algorithm Marketplace is the first App Store for Drone Data Analysis – A new world is upon us This is truly exciting news!  Instead of needing to hire a remote sensing specialist you can now download the software you need from The Algorithm Marketplace. This innovation, which you can navigate to here, represents a partnership with more than 40 corporate and university partners who are licensing over 100 algorithms for automated drone data analysis. The open IP platform will give anyone the ability to create a solution and license it for profit and…

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Drones In The News 

DroneDeploy raises 9 million in Series A funding

DroneDeploy DroneDeploy raises 9 million DroneDeploy raised 9 million in funding from Emergence Capital has demonstrated confidence in DroneDeploys mission and led all investors in a Series A round of investment.  DroneDeploy raises 9 million in funding at a time when the drone market is set to explode with new opportunities, both domestically and internationally. We took a moment to chat with Kevin Spain, co-founder & general partner at Emergence Capital, about the investment and his thoughts on the commercial drone marketplace. Kevin Spain, Emergence Capital Q. A $9M investment in a…

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Drones In The News 

DIELMO 3D Provides Geospatial Back-Office for UAV, Heli, Fixed-Wing and Mobile Data Acquisition

Valencia, Spain, Centennial CO, – DIELMO 3D S.L., (www.dielmousa.com) Valencia, Spain, Dielmo 3D is pleased to offer their Geospatial Back-Office Services to UAV, Helicopter, Fixed-wing and Moblie data acquisition companies. For geospatial data acquisition companies that may be new to LiDAR and orthophoto mapping or may have need for increased data production capacity, Dielmo offers complete LiDAR and ortho photo production services negating the need to invest in additional expert personnel, software licenses, and training personnel to produce industry leading geospatial products. With the advent of UAV, LiDAR and Imaging…

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Our Interviews 

PrecisionHawk, a data-first approach to drone technology

Q. What is PrecisionHawk’s business focused on? PrecisionHawk takes a data-first approach PrecisionHawk develops an end to end solution for UAV operators including hardware for collection and cloud based software for processing, management and analysis. This ensures that a user has a hands-off and streamline process to receive actionable data as opposed to a set of pretty pictures. We truly believe that in developing the automated tools to provide sophisticated analysis will be the key for users who expect to see a true ROI across key industries such as agriculture,…

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Our Contributors 

Thoughts on UAVs and Precision Agriculture

Musings on Big Data in Ag and UAVs (drones) For the past couple of days the weather has not been great for flying here in St Louis and my mental gears have been grinding on away on the subject of “big data” in Ag UAV (drone) usage. For the past few months I have noticed that the two issues seem to come up together and while I cannot remember an instance where anyone has made a direct link between the two topics I have the distinct impression that there is…

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