Forestry, Agriculture & Farming News & Articles

FAA Grants Real Estate and Agricultural Unmanned Aircraft Exemptions

The Federal Aviation Administration has granted two regulatory exemptions for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operations, including the first for real...

Jan 12, 2015
Anglo American Partners with Autonomous Solutions to Develop Unmanned Mining Vehicles

Anglo American has announced that it has entered into partnership with Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI). The goal of the multi-year...

Dec 17, 2014
Trimble Obtains FAA Exemption to Fly UX5 UAS

Trimble has announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted an exemption that will allow the company to conduct...

Dec 12, 2014
Parrot Invests $2M in MicaSense for UAV-Based Agricultural Solutions

MicaSense, a sensor and information company, has announced that it has raised $2M in Series A funding from Parrot, a...

Nov 25, 2014
xG Technology Radio Networking to be Used in Commercial UAV Infrastructure

xG Technology, Inc., a developer of patented wireless communications and spectrum sharing technologies, has received an order from Airogistic, LLC,...

Nov 17, 2014
VineView and SkySquirrel to Launch New Specialized Agricultural UAV

VineView-SAI, Inc., a St. Helena-based remote sensing company, has partnered with SkySquirrel Technologies Inc. (SST), a commercial Unmanned Aerial System...

Nov 12, 2014
PrecisionHawk Receives $10m of Funding from Intel Capital

PrecisionHawk, an unmanned aerial systems and remote sensing company, has announced that Intel Capital has joined its previously announced Series B funding round...

Nov 05, 2014
Responder UAV Used For Advanced Agricultural Data Gathering

ING Robotic Aviation is partnering with ASG Mapping to rigorously assess and develop the application of small robotic aircraft systems...

Jul 22, 2014
Northrop Grumman and Yamaha Motor to Develop Small Unmanned Helicopter

Northrop Grumman Corporation and Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A., have agreed to work together to develop and market an innovative small,...

May 12, 2014
Precision Hawk’s UAS Integral to Aerial Agricultural Artificial Intelligence System

From pest management to water dispersal, data collected by unmanned systems are becoming invaluable assets for farmers. North-America based Precision...

May 08, 2014
senseFly Launch eBee Ag UAS for Precision Agriculture

Swiss mini-drone manufacturer senseFly has launched the eBee Ag, a fully autonomous aerial imaging drone (or UAV) for precision agriculture...

Apr 22, 2014
Trimble Adds UX5 Unmanned Aircraft System to its Agriculture Portfolio

Trimble has announced the addition of its Trimble® UX5 unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to its Agriculture product portfolio for aerial...

Jan 21, 2014
ING Robotic Aviation, iFMS to Showcase Serenity UAS at International Forestry Convention

ING Robotic Aviation will showcase their fixed wing robotic aircraft system, Serenity, in collaboration with iFMS, at this years 2013...

Nov 04, 2013
AUVSI 2013: C-ASTRAL Launches Unmanned Data Acquisition Solution For Agriculture, Forestry And Land Management

C-ASTRAL Ltd., a provider of small unmanned integrated systems for surveying, remote sensing and ISR, has launched a new integrated...

Aug 16, 2013
NovAtel Introduce SMART6 Integrated GNSS SMART Antenna for Agricultural Applications

NovAtel Inc., the world’s leading supplier of OEM Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) components and subsystems today introduced the SMART6...

Jul 15, 2013
Autocopter UAV Launched for Agricultural Applications

The AutoCopter™ is a UAV helicopter providing remote sensing of crops using three full-sized cameras (multi-spectral, DSLR and HD Video)...

Jun 25, 2013
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.