Rocketmine receives first commercial drone operating licence in the Republic of Ghana
Rocketmine, a subsidiary of the listed Delta Drone Group (EPA:ALDR), received the first commercial Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) Operating Certificate (ROC) in the...
Tanzania announces national drone delivery network partnering with Zipline
Today, Tanzania announced that it is launching the world’s largest drone delivery service to provide emergency on-demand access to critical and life-saving medicines. Beginning...
Call for applications: Participate in the humanitarian drone test corridor
What is the humanitarian drone test corridor?
The new Humanitarian Drone Testing Corridor in Malawi is an exciting innovation that UNICEF has pioneered in partnership...
Precision farming takes to the skies with Aerobotics
(Cape Town, South Africa) Aerial data-analytics specialist Aerobotics has secured a joint R8 million (8 million South African Rands) seed-funding round from 4Di, an...
CTA Cost-sharing initiative for the set-up of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) services for agriculture...
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)—or drones—allow capturing and analysis of agricultural data at high spatial resolution, including status of the land, crops and farm infrastructure...
Investigating the geometric accuracy of Propeller AeroPoints and Propeller cloud processing
Report compiled by Luke Wijnberg and Jonathan Swart from 3DroneMapping 14 June 2017
The Propeller AeroPoint is a smart ground control point (GCP) which aims to...
Ballard’s Protonex Subsidiary Receives First Order For Fuel Cell System To Power Commercial UAVs
Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP; TSX: BLDP) today announced that the company's subsidiary, Protonex, has received an initial order for its fuel cell propulsion...
Discover crop problems within minutes – Haevic AgriAnalys Drone
HAEVIC, well- known drone manufacturer of Potchefstroom, South Africa have introduced a new drone platform which can deliver complete and highly accurate multispectral images...
ICAO Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) Symposium
The Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) Symposium with the theme Remotely piloted aviation in Africa: sharing experiences and challenges will be held from 17...
Kruger Park, South Africa, stops anti-poaching drone experiment
Speaking to South African website Defence Web Mark McGill, technical operations manager at SANParks, said that the UAV test period was “very disappointing” as no...
