
Base11 is creating the commercial droneport along with a teaching facility at the Boulder City site.
“We want to be the main area for drone technology,” said Base11 Chief Financial Officer John Beneventi. “Millions of people use drones every day for recreational and professional purposes and we need to put the puzzle pieces into place to bring them together.”
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Sentera, LLC brings game-changing aerial data-capture capabilities to the industry with the revolutionary Omni™ Quad-Rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The Omni naturally partners with a gimbaled Sentera Double 4K Sensor...
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Boulder, Nev., Green-Lights Land Lease for Commercial Droneport
The city council of Boulder, Nev., has green-lighted a 20-year land lease for Aerodrome to build what the company has called the world’s first commercial droneport and teaching facility.
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Verizon Wireless is using drones to help with cell site inspections from the air in North Carolina and South Carolina to survey areas impacted by severe flooding from Hurricane Matthew...
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The UTM Convention 2016 and HiddenGenius.com have partnered to launch a $15,000 technology competition that demonstrates drone sense-and-avoid (SAA) technologies. The competition will be held on Nov. 9 in conjunction...
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The Drone Racing League (DRL) and ESPN have reached an agreement for the network to broadcast the first full season of the upstart organization, it was announced Wednesday.
“Coverage of DRL lets us merge storytelling, technology and competition into compelling weekly content that we believe will appeal to a growing audience,”Full Story...

AGVAULT MOBILE APP 2.0 BATTERY SWAP FEATURE REVOLUTIONIZES UAV FLIGHT PLANNING AND DATA CAPTURE
Sentera announced today their latest update to the AgVault™ 2.0 Mobile iOS app, featuring a battery-swap capability that enables operators to plan a flight of any size and seamlessly accommodates any number of battery swap-outs.
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To help newsrooms get started on using drones for journalism, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s (UNL) Drone Journalism Lab is releasing an operations manual that covers everything from...
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