Nextcore is an Australian-based company who specialise in making UAV-mounted LiDAR systems. Established in 2012, Nextcore’s solutions have been used in the mining industry, by surveyors and environmental specialists all over the world. Continue reading
Category Archives: Electronic Sub-Systems
Insitu Pacific Demonstrates Enhanced Detection Ranges
Insitu Pacific and Boeing Australia’s Detect and Avoid (DAA) capability is now ready to field in real-world operations after test flights demonstrated enhanced detection ranges between an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) and other airspace users. The technology is designed to advance the ability to safely integrate UAS into different classes of airspace. Continue reading
World’s First FAA TSO Certified Drone Transponder – ping200X
uAvionix announced that ping200X , its flagship Mode S ADS-B OUT UAS Transponder, has received Technical Standard Order (TSO) certification from the FAA. ping200X is the pinnacle of years of evolution of investment in groundbreaking, low-Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) avionics developed by uAvionix and certified for use on UAS, General Aviation (GA), and defense aircraft. Continue reading
Velodyne Lidar Announces Multi-Year Agreement with AGM Systems Russia
Velodyne Lidar, Inc. has announced a multi-year agreement with AGM Systems LLC, which provides state-of-the-art hardware and software technology for the collection, processing and analysis of air and mobile mapping data. AGM Systems will utilize Velodyne’s Ultra Puck lidar sensor in their new AGM-MS3 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) mapping solution. Continue reading
Kongsberg Geospatial and Sentient Vision Partner on AI Sensor Analysis
Kongsberg Geospatial, developer of the TerraLens Geospatial SDK, announced that it has partnered with Sentient Vision Systems to enable real-time analysis of sensor video data from drone-based sensors, using Sentient’s Kestrel, an AI–enabled computer vision system that provides automated object detection. Continue reading
uAvionix Gets DoD AIMS Certification for Mode 5 Micro IFF Transponder for UAS
uAvionix Corporation announced that it has achieved DoD AIMS Mk XIIB certification of its first Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) transponder, the RT-2087/ZPX-B. Continue reading
US-Made Drone Flight Computer from Windhover Labs
Windhover Labs, a supplier of flight software and hardware, has announced the upcoming availability of its first hardware product, a low cost modular flight computer for commercial drones and small satellites. Continue reading
American Aerospace to Integrate Sagetech Avionics Detect and Avoid System
Sagetech Avionics, an aerospace technology company providing situational awareness solutions for Unmanned Aerial Systems, and American Aerospace ISR (AA ISR) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to integrate Sagetech’s Detect and Avoid (DAA) system into the AA ISR AiRanger unmanned aircraft. Continue reading