Month October 2025

🛩️ 3D Modelling of Château Charleval (13) by Drone – A Technical Mission Serving Cultural Heritage!

Drone-Pictures recently completed the full 3D modelling of Château Charleval, in the Bouches-du-Rhône region, using drone-based photogrammetry. This cutting-edge technology enabled us to reconstruct the monument and its park with centimetric precision, from over 2,800 aerial and ground images, generating a textured 3D model of…

AOPA Pushes Back on Conditional Right of Way for Drones

While pilots have sought to maintain maneuverability-based right-of-way rules, along with shared responsibility for see-and-avoid, as drones are integrated into the national airspace system, the nascent drone industry has struggled to develop cost-effective ways to enable unmanned aircraft to detect…

Ukrainian Solution to Fiber-Optic Drones

The Ukrainian military has begun deploying special engineering barriers to prevent fiber-optic drones from flying behind the front line. The idea behind the simple engineering design, which consists of a stretched barbed wire, is to break the fiber-optic cable that…

UK Seeks Strike and Refuelling Drone for Aircraft Carriers

The UK’s Ministry of Defence has published a preliminary market engagement notice under Project VANQUISH, seeking industry views on a new “Fixed Wing Short Take Off and Landing Autonomous Collaborative Platform” (FW STOL ACP) for Royal Navy carriers. The Find…

Managing Large Photogrammetry Projects Simultaneously: Can It Be Done?

How scalable workflows, automation, and distributed processing make managing large photogrammetry projects possible. DRONELIFE spoke with Philippe Simard, co-founder and CEO of SimActive, the Canadian company behind the Correlator3D photogrammetry suite, to explore one of the most pressing challenges in…