by Global Drone Conference | May 27, 2020 | Forestry and Agriculture
https://www.globaldroneconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Watch-a-Breathtaking-Monarch-Butterfly-Swarm.mp4 In a recent video from Nature on PBS, you’ll be able to get super close to resting Monarch Butterflies. As they wait for the temperature to...
by Global Drone Conference | May 27, 2020 | Forestry and Agriculture
For half a week in early May, the skies over Latvia were virtually shut down when an experimental drone went missing over the country. At last the drone has shown up, stuck in a tree. It’s an anticlimactic ending to what had been a dramatic disruption to the Baltic...
by Global Drone Conference | May 13, 2020 | Forestry and Agriculture
In a collective effort to restore Australia from wildfire devastation, XAG has joined the first-ever post-fire drone seeding operation on Lake Cobrico, Victoria. This project was funded by Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) and managed by...
by Global Drone Conference | Apr 8, 2020 | Forestry and Agriculture
As the COVID-19 crisis continues to take a global toll, startup Swoop Aero is taking remote work to the next level; from its Melbourne office, it is operating a whole fleet of autonomous drones delivering medical supplies in Malawi. Now, it’s also working with...
by Global Drone Conference | Mar 20, 2020 | Forestry and Agriculture, Uncategorized
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found use in agriculture for decades, with unmanned helicopters spraying pesticides on rice fields in Japan back in the 1980s. Now, to have drones reach their full potential in farming, research is increasingly pushing toward...
by Global Drone Conference | Mar 18, 2020 | Forestry and Agriculture
As the spread of coronavirus slows in China, the country has seen an orderly resumption of work to reboot its economy. The Chinese agriculture technology company XAG is one of the first companies obtaining work resumption approval from government. It restarted...
