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Inside The 17 Day Austrian Wildfire Response That Ran On Drones
A wildfire that broke out north of Graz on 25 April 2026 burned through roughly 70 hectares of steep Austrian forest and took 17 days to extinguish. Across that fortnight drones logged more than 300 flight hours, most of them...
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Emesent GX1 Demo Day Comes To Southampton On 1 October 2026
Coptrz and Emesent are hosting a free Emesent GX1 demo day in Hampshire on Thursday 1 October 2026, giving surveyors, engineers and architects hands on time with SLAM based mobile mapping hardware. The session runs from 10:00 to 14:00 at...
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How DFR Programmes Handle Drone Data Security And Privacy
The first questions asked about a Drone as First Responder programme are rarely about flight time or camera resolution. They are about the footage. Where is it stored, who can reach it, how long is it kept, and who answers...
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DJI Terra 5.3.5 Adds Zenmuse L3 Accuracy And Light Uniformity
DJI Terra 5.3.5 landed on 20 August 2026 and it is a targeted release rather than a sweeping overhaul. Every change in it points at one payload, the Zenmuse L3, and at the quality of the outputs it produces. If...
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How DJI Dock 3 Helps Police Secure Spain's Running Of The Bulls
Spain's National Police used DJI Dock 3 during San Fermín in Pamplona, running night time monitoring, scheduled flights over fixed sites and manual response when incidents broke. DJI published the case study on 19 August 2026, with master distributor MCR...
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DJI Names 15 Winners In Its Drone Onboard AI Challenge 2026
DJI announced the winners of the DJI Enterprise Drone Onboard AI Challenge 2026 on 22 August 2026, recognising 15 organisations building AI models that run on the aircraft itself rather than in the cloud. The entries cover crop counting, traffic...
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How To Start A Drone As First Responder Programme In 5 Stages
Most drone as first responder programmes stall for the same reason, which is that the team treats the docks as a purchase rather than a sequence of things to prove. DJI published a practical roadmap on 24 August 2026 that...
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DJI Avata 360 Contest Offers A $10,000 Prize For Action Clips
DJI has opened a global video contest built around the DJI Avata 360, with a $10,000 grand prize and a total of eight cash awards. The brief is action and adventure filmed with the drone's full spherical capture, entries close...
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DJI FlightHub 2 Adds Copilot Route Generation And O4 Support
DJI released a major DJI FlightHub 2 update on 18 August 2026 that changes how teams plan, fly and interpret automated missions. Copilot can now build a flight route from a plain language description, O4 Ground Stations sit inside the...
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How DJI Dock 3 Covers An Entire District In Thailand
DJI Enterprise released a two-minute workflow video in August 2026 showing how Samut Songkhram, the smallest province in Thailand, uses DJI Dock 3 to cover a whole district. According to the video, a drone deploys the moment a call comes...
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Can Thermal Drones Detect Water Leaks?
Thermal drones can find water leaks, but not in the way most people assume. A thermal camera cannot see water and cannot see through the ground. What it reads is surface temperature, and a leak underneath changes that temperature in...
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DJI Matrice 400 v17.02.50.07 August 2026 Release Notes Explained
DJI published a fresh set of Matrice 400 release notes on 11 August 2026, and the headline is a quiet one. Aircraft firmware stays at v17.02.50.07, the remote controller gets a new build, and DJI Pilot 2 for Android steps...
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