new-UAV-legislation-01

It has been more than three years since we last reviewed Ukrainian legislation regulating the use of UAVs. Since then, there’s been so much water under the bridge, the situation has fundamentally changed.    Legislation A more or less clear set of rules and constraints finally emerged in an uneasy, tumultuous and almost epic battle […]

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DJI Phantom 4

As UAV technology is rapidly developing, the question of the economic feasibility of using certain UAVs for certain tasks often arises. We decided to test several drones and cameras of the popular DJI manufacturer in the middle and lower price segments for the accuracy of the data obtained for large-scale mapping in difficult terrain. The survey was […]

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photogrammetry

Unmanned aerial vehicles are becoming more and more available together with drone acquired imagery/data, this contributes a lot to the development of automated photogrammetric processing. Products like Pix4Dmapper, ContextCapture, PhotoScan and many others have formed a distinguished class. The software products, that we are going to discuss here, are intended to solve similar problems that […]

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Beaver-studies

Under conditions of climate change, degradation of transformed aquatic ecosystems and reduction of biodiversity many international scientists focus their attention on beavers. Why? Because these animals are capable of miracles! The presence of beavers and the creation of beaver ponds increases the number of birds, amphibians, fish, preserves and purifies water, promotes the rise of […]

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drones-agriculture-business

Unmanned aerial vehicles have quickly entered our daily reality. And if a few years ago a flying drone in the sky gathered the attention of passers-by, nowadays the squeezing of drones is just another component of the city noise. But the drones used by wedding photographers and video bloggers are just the tip of the […]

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agricultural-drones

One of the simplest and most common classifications of drones is their division into amateur and professional classes. However, for drones used in agriculture, this kind of classification is not very relevant, since almost all such drones belong to the professional segment. Therefore, most of the UAVs are divided into two large categories, namely fixed-wing […]

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drone-journalilst-union

On July 27th, 2017, Drone.ua announced the establishment of a “Professional Union of Drone Journalists” (PUDJ), which, as stated on their website, “unites the interests of all drone pilots.” Such an unusual blending of the concepts of “drone pilot” and “journalist” caused disputes and rejection of some members of the drone community of Ukraine. The […]

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tips-drones

The use of UAVs is spread in many areas of activity (we’ve talked about it in a previous post). Each of these areas requires specific approaches of drone preparation and operator training. Based on my own experience and the analysis of the experience of other specialists, I want to highlight the main aspects of the […]

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uav-legislation-news

It has finally happened! The State Aviation Administration of Ukraine worked out and published ‘guidelines for the owners of unmanned aircrafts’ in the form of understandable infographics (fig. 1). Fig. 1. Information for the operators of UAVs published on August 19, 2016 by the State Aviation Administration caused very mixed response in the drone community, […]

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