Dedrone, Vodafone and Amazon Web Services have announced a partnership to provide airspace security for critical infrastructure. Sites of critical importance, including airports, stadiums, correctional
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Author: Philip Butterworth-Hayes
Amsterdam Drone Week: “EU U-space regulations targeted for 2022, air taxis 2023”
By Jenny Beechener and Philip Butterworth-Hayes Discussions with member states on the European Union draft U-space regulation are going well and should be finalised by
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Amsterdam Drone Week: Amsterdam develops AI-based inner-city urban drone test centre
Less than a year after the Amsterdam Drone Lab launched, the inner-city test ground located in the city’s naval dockyard, is providing a ‘living laboratory’
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Amsterdam Drone Week: A city manifesto but who will manage the airspace above cities?
Fourteen European cities and regions, members of the UAM Initiative Cities Community (UIC2), presented their ‘Manifesto on the Multilevel Governance of the Urban Sky’, https://www.amsterdamdroneweek.com/manifesto
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Detect and avoid: how close are we to replacing the pilot as the last line of defence?
An interview with Jon Damush, CEO of Iris Automation, which is developing a range of machine-learning-based, optical detect and avoid systems for commercial drone operators
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Israel to equip UAS with sense and avoid systems as airspace congestion grows
By Arie Egozi Israel’s civil and military airspace management organizations are working on developing new sense and avoid technologies to be fitted on all drones
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‘There are potential gains for the military’ – NATO plans for U-space
Bu Jenny Beechener Against the backdrop of rising use of unmanned vehicles in all areas of the military, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is
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ARTsys360 low-weight, affordable C-UAS radar “can also provide urban drone traffic surveillance”
By Arie Egozi Israeli company ARTsys360, manufacturer of a hemispheric low-price, low-weight drone detection radar, reports it has sold its systems as part of wider
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New GUTMA study outlines principles for globally-interoperable UTM systems
A new white paper from the Global UTM Association (GUTMA) Designing UTM for Global Success has identified the key principles for creating a successful, globally-interoperable
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“Eleven standard sets needed for U-Space – four completed, seven to go” – AW-Drones webinar
By Jenny Beechener AW-Drones latest update on technical standards under development to support U-space implementation in Europe identifies continued need for definition and harmonisation in
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