Environmental News & Articles

Agricultural Drone Solutions Advanced with New Collaboration

Drone Nerds has partnered with Sentera to expand its range of agricultural and industrial drone solutions, adding Sentera's PHX fixed-wing drone and multispectral sensors to its offerings

May 24, 2024
Industrial Drone Approved for Washington Landfill Inspections

The SnifferDRONE™ performs inspections 50% faster and reduces technician's exposure to hazards, while improving the effectiveness of detecting methane emissions and the sources of land-based leaks

May 22, 2024
Collaboration to Advance Disaster Response Research

Verizon Frontline will provide the UAS platform, sensor, and personnel resources needed to rapidly respond and collect aerial imagery of storm-damaged areas identified by the NOAA

May 15, 2024
Academic & Technical Collaborative Mission Unveiled

The Sentinel Mission from Teledyne Webb Research and Rutgers University will send Teledyne’s Slocum Glider around the world to contribute to human understanding of the oceans

May 02, 2024
Disasters Expo Makes 2024 European Debut

On 15-16 May, Messe Frankfurt is hosting the first edition of Disaster Expo Europe, a summit of disaster management experts aiming to mitigate the consequences of the most costly disasters

Mar 19, 2024
Interactive Drone Technology Used to Promote Conservation

NatureEye and Jackson Wild have united to inspire schoolchildren to become environmental stewards, using real-time drone flights to enable virtual field trips above endangered species and impressive natural landscapes

Mar 12, 2024
Acecore Technologies Supporting Icelandic Authorities Following Devastating Volcanic Eruptions

Acecore Technologies is deploying sophisticated hybrid drone technology with ground-penetrating radar to assess the aftermath of volcanic eruptions around Grindavik in Iceland

Feb 28, 2024
Hydrogen-Powered USV to Integrate Robosys Voyager AI Systems

Robosys’ Voyager AI is a maritime artificial intelligence software, which delivers autonomous navigation and remote control for USV control systems at various levels of autonomy

Feb 23, 2024
Slocum Sentinel Glider Unveiled

Teledyne Webb Research will debut the new Slocum Sentinel Glider at Oceanology International, an autonomous underwater vessel 13 inches in diameter, over 8 feet long, and with a standard glide speed of 0.75 knots

Feb 20, 2024
Strategic Partnership Formed to Propel Maritime Technology Advancements

Ocean Aero’s Triton provides a tangible & dynamic hardware-software solution to many maritime concerns in Saudi Arabia, including defense, offshore oil and gas, and the environment

Feb 12, 2024
SailBuoy USVs to Use NBOSI CT Sensors

NBOSI’s sensors cater to autonomous underwater and surface ocean vehicles, measuring ocean parameters, tracking oil spills, and acting as a communication relay for subsea instrumentation

Feb 09, 2024
Team Arrives in Antarctica for ULTRA UAV Testing

Designed for extreme environments like Antarctica, the Windracers ULTRA UAV is a fully autonomous, twin-engine, 10m fixed-winged aircraft, capable of carrying 100kg up to 1000km

Feb 08, 2024
OEM Camera Module Released for Optical-Gas-Imaging

Teledyne FLIR has introduced the Neutrino LC OGI mid-wave infrared imaging module to provide rapid leak detection of methane and other hydrocarbons in a SWaP-optimized package suited to drone integration

Feb 05, 2024
Meteomatics Closes Funding for Weather Drones

To forecast weather in the mid & lower atmosphere at a high degree of precision, the company collects data using its Meteodrones, weather drones capable of flying up to 20,000ft

Feb 02, 2024
Vanilla UAS Flies for NASA in Greenland

Platform Aerospace tested environmental hardening technologies to operate the Vanilla UAV in subfreezing conditions, such as testing an anti‐icing coating on the propeller

Jan 25, 2024
Innovative Fuel Cell Design Achieved Through Collaboration

Intelligent Energy is 'Powering the Hydrogen Future' with high-efficiency fuel cell innovations developed on Rescale

Jan 24, 2024
Water Quality Monitored with Electric Drones

Skyports Drone Services and Makutu have completed test flights for a drone inspection service to monitor quality of river and coastal water, and are now launching a pilot study with Northumbrian Water

Jan 19, 2024
Uncrewed Meteorological Observation Ship Begins Long-Endurance Voyage

The China-made uncrewed weather vessel’s first voyage was 110 nautical miles and lasted 16 hours, with a total potential endurance of 400 nautical miles

Dec 05, 2023
NOAA Collaboration to Equip NemoSens Micro AUV with SwordFish Imaging Payload

NCCOS, RTsys and Arctic Rays join forces to better understand our oceans, mitigate climate change and protect marine life

Dec 04, 2023
1,800m Deep Sensor Data Successfully Recovered

AutoNaut’s USV remotely collected data from the Sonardyne Fetch AZA BPR, changing how oceanographic data is collected and reducing reliance on ships for deep sea fieldwork

Nov 30, 2023
Measuring Global Ocean Currents using BPRs

SAMS has deployed the two deep-sea BPRs, one in the north-east Atlantic and one in the Labrador Sea, to record regular changes in sea surface height

Nov 27, 2023
Monarch Conservation Software Platform Launched

POLLi supports data collection and analysis by utilizing automated drone operations for image collection, and utilizing machine-learning cloud computing for object detection

Nov 17, 2023
First Collocated Drone Mission into a Hurricane

The first Black Swift Technologies’ S0 drone launch into a hurricane, along with other instruments and technology, has collected data on how storms form, build, and intensify

Nov 13, 2023
New AutoNaut USV Unveiled

The sensors on board the AutoNaut USVs will provide scientists at BMS with humidity, conductivity, temperature, depth, wind and wave data to assist with Hurricane tracking

Oct 27, 2023
Greensea IQ Hull Management Service Launched

The EverClean IQ System harnesses data collected during cleaning operations, aided by the robot’s highly accurate hull relative navigation system

Oct 16, 2023
Hurricane Research to be Transformed by Teledyne Gliders

Over 1,100 Teledyne Marine Slocum AUVs have been deployed worldwide, equipped with sensors to measure various ocean parameters, including temperature, salinity, and depth-averaged currents

Oct 03, 2023
Advancing Unmanned Systems Through Strategic Collaboration UST works with major OEMs to foster collaboration and increase engagement with SMEs, to accelerate innovation and drive unmanned systems capabilities forward.