11 February 2021
While commitments have been made to leverage industry support on technical implementations, there remains a need to address how Remote Identification (RID) can support existing low altitude airspace operations. RID information should be something that all low altitude aviators can take advantage of to improve safety – whether it is for emergency medical helicopters, public safety, crop dusters, or any other general aviation pilot. Last year Hidden Level published a white paper on the gaps that remain with RID previous to the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) being published for comment. Our paper, “Realizing Remote ID“, included highlighting operational issues ahead for Cockpit Awareness for low-altitude pilots and for Coverage/Flexibility of RID information delivery risk mitigation.
11 February 2021
The Pacific Southwest Region of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) is pleased to announce that recordings of the 1st annual Symposium on Remote Sensing & Wildland Fire (RS Fire 2020) are freely available to those who missed the live event. This was a virtual 4-date symposium series, and each date of the series included three industry-leading speakers, panel discussion, sponsor lighting talks, Q&A, as well as open networking/discussion opportunities for attendees. All of the excellent information was captured in the webinar recordings. For further information and to obtain free access to the recordings, visit www.pswasprs.org/RSFire2020.
11 February 2021
ATLANTA – Skyfire Consulting (skyfireconsulting.com), the most trusted and experienced public safety UAS consulting group, today announced it has opened a new partnership and innovation hub in Huntsville, AL known as Rocket City, U.S.A. to more closely align with world-class aeronautic and defense agencies and organizations, and to explore innovative opportunities for the design and manufacturing of drones, as well as training and support of their use.
“Home to Redstone Arsenal, which has been the center of the U.S. Army’s missile and rocket programs for more than 50 years, the new headquarters for the U.S. Space Command and the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s I²C Invention to Innovation Center, Huntsville is the perfect location for Skyfire to continue our growth,” said Matt Sloane, Skyfire founder and CEO. “This office will allow us to foster new relationships with the FBI, who recently announced their plans to build a one-billion-dollar facili
10 February 2021
Both Israeli and Indian companies will address the needs of the Indian defence and paramilitary sectors, including adapting the unique encapsulated Ninox 40 system.
Aero India 2021. SpearUAV – developers and suppliers of unique Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) solutions for defence and Homeland Security (HLS) applications from Israel – has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an Indian company, Paras Aerospace, a subsidiary of Paras Defence and Space Technologies Limited, to introduce the unique encapsulated Ninox 40 system to the Indian market for use by
military forces, paramilitary, internal security, and law enforcement agencies.
Speaking about the collaboration, Yishai Amir, CEO of SpearUAV, said, “The defence sector in India faces many challenges in surveillance of multiple international borders, in jungles and wooded areas as well as dealing with extreme natural forces, such as monsoon storms, cyclones and earthquakes. These challenges appl
10 February 2021
Iris Automation has been invited to join the World Economic Forum’s Global Innovators community, an invitation-only group of the world’s most promising start-ups and scale-ups that are at the forefront of ethical technological and business model innovation.
Companies who are invited to become Global Innovators will engage with one or more of the Forum’s Platforms, as relevant, to help define the global agenda on key issues. Iris Automation has joined the Shaping the Future of Mobility platform.
Iris Automation is a computer vision technology company pioneering the development of advanced detection systems used to help provide Detect-and-Avoid (DAA) capabilities that enable safe commercial drone operations including scalable Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) missions.