AgEagle Aerial Systems Inc., an industry-leading provider of full-stack drone, sensor and software solutions, has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, senseFly, has been named to the Blue sUAS 2.0 list, published by the US Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) earlier this month.
The Blue sUAS 2.0 project follows the successful partnership between the U.S. …

Axon in partnership with Fotokite, a service provider of actively tethered Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) solutions, commonly referred to as drones, and public safety software tools, today announced the autonomous Fotokite Sigma UAS complete with wireless livestreaming and evidence management is now commercially available to public safety customers in the US and Canada.

The exclusive partnership between Axon and Fotokite, announced …

ModalAI officially released two new products today that help developers create smaller, smarter and safer robots and drones quickly and easily – the VOXL CAM perception engine and the Seeker micro-development drone, the world’s first micro-development drone optimized for development of both indoor and outdoor autonomous navigation. Both new products are now on sale at modalai.com.
The VOXL CAM is an all-in-one …

Bell announced an agreement with Esri Canada, the nation’s leading geographic information system (GIS) provider, to create the Bell Integrated Smart City Ecosystem. This integrated solution will combine Bell’s award-winning 5G network and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions with Esri’s real-time analytics and location intelligence capabilities to help cities of all sizes across Canada become connected communities, …

Fugro has secured two geotechnical site investigation contracts with Energinet for Denmark’s proposed Energy Island project. A global first, this purpose-built artificial island will be situated 80 km offshore in the North Sea and act as a hub connecting hundreds of surrounding wind turbines. Fugro will perform the preliminary geotechnical site investigation for the Energy Island and the adjacent …

Northrop Grumman Corporation and Airbus Defence and Space, together with seven industrial players, have established ASPAARO, the Atlantic Strategic Partnership for Advanced All-domain Resilient Operations. ASPAARO will bid to undertake the Risk Reduction and Feasibility Studies (RRFS) for the NATO Support and Procurement Agency as part of the Alliance Future Surveillance and Control (AFSC) programme.
The …

Geoscience Australia has developed an open-source Analysis Centre Software GNSS toolkit to process real-time geodetic data and deliver positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) services to Australians. This capability is called Ginan.

An alpha version of Ginan can be accessed through its page on GitHub (Ginan 1.0.0). This software will be progressively updated with new functionality.

This capability will enable …

The construction of a ground station for correcting the GLONASS navigation signal in India will begin next year, Sergey Savelyev, deputy general director of state space corporation Roscosmos for international cooperation, told Sputnik.

“We have to place one station (each) with India. I think it will happen next year,” Savelyev said.

In 2019, it was reported that a Russian station could be located …

Trimble has announced the release of the Trimble® X7 3D laser scanner and Trimble FieldLink software fully integrated with Boston Dynamics’ Spot® robot. This exclusive turnkey solution from Trimble, jointly developed with Boston Dynamics, facilitates autonomous operation on construction sites and takes advantage of the robot’s unique capabilities to navigate challenging, dynamic and potentially unsafe environments. Trimble’s …

Hexagon’s Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial division has announced the launch of Power Portfolio 2022, the latest version of its leading GIS, remote sensing, photogrammetry and geospatial data management products. The Power Portfolio helps organizations collect, process, analyze and understand geospatial data and organize it into centralized libraries for easy sharing through web and mobile applications, including custom …