by Scott Simmie | Aug 21, 2017 | Drones, Eclipse, Events, The Buzz
There was no escaping it. If you were on the internet, watching television – or outdoors in many parts of our planet – it was all about the eclipse: One of those rare but gorgeous celestial moments when things line up just right so that the moon blocks much or all of...
by Scott Simmie | Aug 17, 2017 | #DronesForGood, Drones, First Responders, The Buzz
The police force in Arlington Texas has a new perspective to assist with their work: Six new DJI Mavic Pro drones. The force recently purchased the devices, which are far less expensive than some of the drones typically purchased by law enforcement and first...
by Sarah Robinson | Aug 17, 2017 | Drones, Education, Profile
Yifei Zhao isn’t interested in glamour. But you wouldn’t know it from her résumé — before she became the operations director for UAV training at consulting firm AlteX, Zhao worked in film production, specializing in remote locations and “money shots” designed to take...
by Scott Simmie | Aug 16, 2017 | #DronesForGood, Aerial Cameras, Aerial Photography, Aerial Video, Cameras, Drones, The Buzz
When a heavy-duty storm approaches, the general approach is to either seek shelter or head in the opposite direction. But a team of atmospheric researchers at Colorado State University packs up a bunch of specially equipped DJI Matrice drones into vans and drives...
by David MacQuarrie | Aug 15, 2017 | Drones, News, Photography, Research
In her classic essay on the marvel of total solar eclipses, US writer Annie Dillard says a partial eclipse bears the same relation to a total eclipse as “flying in an airplane does to falling out of an airplane.” Monday’s total eclipse already has many people in the...
