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Let me drone on a moment about drones for agriculture or forestry

GreenBiz

Let me drone on a moment about drones for agriculture or forestry. That brings its total backing (so far) to $142 million, more than any other drone data and software company. Heather Clancy. Thu, 02/25/2021 - 00:05. billion by 2026 , a compound annual growth rate of close to 30 percent over the next five years.

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Drones Can Reforest The Planet Faster Than Humans Can

Jim Conca

So Flash Forest out of Canada developed drone technology and aerial mapping software, led by ecological science, to reforest areas at 100 times the pace. There is more than one reason that we need to reforest Planet Earth, even if you don’t care about climate change. But doing it by hand is too slow.

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The world’s first airport for flying cars and drones has just landed

GreenBiz

is developing an urban airport for flying cars and drones. Will other countries follow suit?

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HOW DRONES ARE REVOLUTIONIZING AGRICULTURE TODAY?

U.S. Green Technology

ANALYSIS OF SOIL AND FIELD: Drones can be extremely useful at the beginning of the agricultural cycle. Drone-assisted soil analysis gives data for irrigation and nitrogen control after planting. PLANTING: STARTUPS has developed drone-planting systems with a 75 percent uptake rate. appeared first on U.S. Green Technology.

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‘Lab-on-a-drone’ tested at wastewater treatment plant

Envirotec Magazine

A “lab-on-a-drone” system has been used to monitor hydrogen sulphide gas from the air above a wastewater treatment plant in Brazil, in a project that has been written up in the American Chemical Society publication Analytical Chemistry. This reaction is highly selective and was not affected by other, interfering gaseous air pollutants.

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Installation tips: Scanifly touts the benefits of drones and aerial imagery

Solar Power World

For insight into the “installation aid” segment, SPW talked with Brad Knudsen, product marketing manager at Scanifly, about how drones and advanced aerial imagery have transformed residential solar design and installation. How does using drones and aerial imagery help solar contractors in eventual hands-on installation?

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Using drones to forecast eruptions

Envirotec Magazine

Specially-adapted drones developed by an international team have been gathering data from never-before-explored volcanoes that will enable local communities to better forecast eruptions. Measurements need to be collected very close to active vents and, at hazardous volcanoes like Manam, drones are the only way to obtain samples safely.

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