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12 February 2021 A first worldwide test of civil drone flights in GPS denied environments was successfully conducted in Israel in a special drone test zone in Yeruham, where safe navigation solutions for drone flight Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS) were presented.  The test is part of NAAMA, the Israeli drone delivery pilot program operated by Israel’s Ministry of Transport (MOT), Ayalon Highways, the Civil Aviation Authority of Israel (CAAI) and Israel Innovation Authority, for testing and demonstrating drone technologies in managed airspace (UTM). The current test is ex...

11 February 2021 While commitments have been made to leverage industry support on technical implementations, there remains a need to address how Remote Identification (RID) can support existing low altitude airspace operations. RID information should be something that all low altitude aviators can take advantage of to improve safety – whether it is for emergency medical helicopters, public safety, crop dusters, or any other general aviation pilot. Last year Hidden Level published a white paper on the gaps that remain with RID previous to the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) being pu...

11 February 2021 The Pacific Southwest Region of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) is pleased to announce that recordings of the 1st annual Symposium on Remote Sensing & Wildland Fire (RS Fire 2020) are freely available to those who missed the live event. This was a virtual 4-date symposium series, and each date of the series included three industry-leading speakers, panel discussion, sponsor lighting talks, Q&A, as well as open networking/discussion opportunities for attendees. All of the excellent information was captured in the webinar recordings. For furth...

11 February 2021 ATLANTA – Skyfire Consulting (skyfireconsulting.com), the most trusted and experienced public safety UAS consulting group, today announced it has opened a new partnership and innovation hub in Huntsville, AL—known as Rocket City, U.S.A.—to more closely align with world-class aeronautic and defense agencies and organizations, and to explore innovative opportunities for the design and manufacturing of drones, as well as training and support of their use. “Home to Redstone Arsenal, which has been the center of the U.S. Army’s missile and rocket programs for more than 5...

10 February 2021 Both Israeli and Indian companies will address the needs of the Indian defence and paramilitary sectors, including adapting the unique encapsulated Ninox 40 system. Aero India 2021. SpearUAV – developers and suppliers of unique Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) solutions for defence and Homeland Security (HLS) applications from Israel – has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an Indian company, Paras Aerospace, a subsidiary of Paras Defence and Space Technologies Limited, to introduce the unique encapsulated Ninox 40 system to the Indian market for use by milita...