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Tuesday, August 16th, 2016

MRG GEO Receive s FAA Section 333 Exemption

Flagler Beach, FL – MRG GEO, the premier professional geospatial services firm of Flagler Beach, Florida, announced today that the FAA had approved its Section 333 Exemption for the operation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The 333 Exemption allows MRG GEO to operate UAVs safely in the National Airspace System. “We are excited to be

Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

Terra Drone and Hitachi Construction Machinery Announce Partnership to Advance UAV Land-Surveying

TOKYO – Terra Drone, Asia’s leading service provider of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), and Hitachi Construction Machinery, the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, have announced a partnership to accelerate full-automatic UAV operation at construction sites. Terra Drone, based in Tokyo, Japan, is a UAV pioneer in surveying and analyzing site conditions of job sites

Monday, February 22nd, 2016

Zeroing in on the Market for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Velodyne LiDAR Announces New Puck LITE

MORGAN HILL, Calif.  (Feb. 22, 2016)  — Aiming at the burgeoning market for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Velodyne LiDAR today unveiled its new Puck LITE™ — at 590 grams, the world’s lightest 16-channel LiDAR sensor. Puck LITE will make its public debut on Feb. 22 at ILMF, the International LiDAR Mapping Forum, in Denver (Velodyne

Tuesday, July 28th, 2015

Bluesky Announces Prototype UAV Flight Restriction Map

Leicestershire, UK, July 28, 2015 — Aerial mapping company Bluesky has produced a prototype map showing where it may be unsafe or even illegal to fly Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly referred to as Drones.  Bluesky has combined an expertise in flight planning and 3D aerial mapping with various geographic datasets to come up with the concept