Jammer resistant drone designs spark search for countermeasures
The Russia-Ukraine conflict has driven another stage of evolution for drones and the counter measures to defend against them.
Chinese aerial-imaging company DJI and automated surveying solutions provider Datumate have launched the DJI-Datumate Site Survey Solution; a UAV, software and app package that automates and expedites site surveys. The release was announced on 11 October.
The system is designed to help infrastructure, inspection, construction and surveying companies generate a working model, analytics and plan and site visualisation.
The solution includes Datumate's DatuGram 3D photogrammetry software, DatuFly tablet app for automated aerial photography and DJI's UAV.
The DatuGram software converts ground and aerial images into geo-referenced 3D models and 2D maps. The DatuFly software generates a flight and image-taking plan for the DJI aircraft based on the best practice requirements of the 3D photogrammetry.
Paul Xu, DJI's director of enterprise solutions, said: ‘We believe that DJI-Datumate Site Survey Solutions offer a professional and cost-effective end-to-end solution for the surveying, infrastructure-mapping and inspection markets.’
The Russia-Ukraine conflict has driven another stage of evolution for drones and the counter measures to defend against them.
The new Amorphous software is a universal controller that would allow a single operator to control a swarm of “thousands” of uncrewed systems, from drones to underwater platforms.
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Launched at AUSA in October, the company’s multi-stream video codec is attempting to bring a new lease of life to drone technology through its AI accelerator.
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