The Drone Analyst Blog

I am happy to announce the release of Making a Successful Business Case for Drone Technology – a blueprint for enterprises to ...

Amazon’s Prime Air delivery drone has some great new technology but the service faces strong and persistent regulatory hurdles. Amazon’s drone delivery ...

There’s some good information in the FAA’s new five-year Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) forecast, but there are reasons to doubt the accuracy ...

Increasing use of drones surfaces three best practices for state and local police, sheriffs, fire departments, and teams in EMS, search and ...

Five years ago, the pundits predicted that by now we would be seeing tens of thousands of drones buzzing over our heads ...

This post first appeared on Forbes.com as Drones Pose A Unique Big Data Challenge For Business Users The public might consider them nuisances, ...

We just announced the release of our latest research on commercial drone operations. The Economics of Using Drones for BVLOS Inspections is ...

This post first appeared in Forbes In many ways, 2019 will be another big year for the commercial drone industry. Last year ...

This was a big year for the commercial drone industry as a whole. It saw a significant increase in the business adoption, ...

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” – Peter Drucker The $118M Airware failure is a cautionary tale for all ...

We just released the results of our third annual drone industry benchmark survey and it’s a kicker. The 2018 Drone Market Sector Report ...

  In this August 2018 report, we list the top software applications and data services for processing drone images. This one-page report ...

We've just announced the release of our Quick Start Guide to Drones in Public Infrastructure. This new report is the third and ...

We just announced the launch of our third annual Drone Market Sector Research survey, which promises to be our most comprehensive study of ...

I’m happy to announce the release of our Quick Start Guide to Drones in Energy. This report is the second in a ...

Assessing what GDPR means for commercial drone hardware and software vendors, service providers, and enterprise users. By Colin Snow and Charlotte Ziems ...

I’m happy to announce the release of the Quick Start Guide to Drones in Construction. This report is the first in a ...

In my last post, Five Biggest Commercial Drone Trends of 2017 and the Challenges Ahead, I used data from our 2017 Drone ...

Last year at this time, I reflected back on the news and trends of the commercial drone markets of 2016 and wrote ...

I believe three of the biggest misconceptions in the drone industry is how fast it will grow, which sectors will grow, and ...

Guest post by Zacc Dukowitz, Director of Marketing UAV Coach In this article we’re going to take a look at some of ...

We have just released the results of our latest market research on the drone industry. The 2017 Drone Market Sector Report examines ...

We just released a new research report titled “Five Valuable Business Lessons Learned About Drones in Public Safety and First Responder Operations.” ...

We just announced the start of our 2017 Drone Market Sector Research, which promises to be the most comprehensive study of drone market ...

We just released a new research report titled “Five Valuable Business Lessons About Drones in Asset and Infrastructure Inspection” This is the ...

I just released a new research report titled “Five Valuable Business Lessons Learned About Drones in Mining and Aggregates.” This is the third ...

As many of you know I’ve been researching and writing about agriculture drone solutions since early 2012. I recently came across this ...

We just released a new research report titled “Five Valuable Business Lessons Learned About Drones in Construction.” This is the first in ...

Airmap, with its low-altitude airspace management platform for drones, continues to garner international market share and new investment, but some uses for ...

Airspace integration and management solutions for drones continue to garner new investment, but most options are based on fairytale scenarios and raise ...

Last year at this time, I reflected back on the news and trends of the commercial drone markets of 2015 and wrote ...

Sky-Futures cloud-based drone inspection visualization and reporting software squarely targets the asset inspection sector, but will it be broadly adopted?   THE ...

AeroVironment’s new drone and cloud-based analytics platform squarely targets the commercial sector, but are they targeting the wrong vertical, too late in ...

DroneDeploy’s new App Market fills a need for commercial drone use, but can the data quality measure up for widespread industrial use? ...

Innovations will flourish on drones that target the prosumer market for a long time THE FACTS: In the 1980 book, The Third ...

How to steer clear of the wrong hire for your drone business By Jonathan Rupprecht, Esq. for Drone Analyst® It seems everyone ...

Choosing the right service means choosing a trusted business partner THE FACTS: In early 2014, it was easy to see that drones ...

But development is vibrant, and you’ll see it work first in prosumer drones THE FACTS: “Sense and avoid” for drones is a ...

PrecisionHawk’s LATAS delivers an innovative air traffic control system for drones, but it’s one of several that depends on the not-so-imminent success ...

FAA testing and certification for small UAS remote pilot certificates begins in earnest this month, but does that mean the commercial drone ...

Will its reliance on channel partnerships address the real needs of commercial operators? THE FACTS: Without the usual fanfare associated with a ...

According to 2015 statistics from the US Department of Labor, there are 44,300 surveyors in the United States. But mapping is practiced ...

Features should appeal to Esri users, but will they appeal to non-Esri users? THE FACTS: In June 2016, Esri released an application ...

It may not seem like it, but drones are still in their infancy and only proving themselves through the rigorous testing done ...

Its enterprise drone is fit for construction, mining, and insurance companies, but the question is whether companies already catering to those audiences ...

We just released a new research study titled “The Truth about Drones in Construction and Infrastructure Inspection.” The free report is the ...

Over the past few years, the press has emphasized how much commercial drones will be used to improve farming. The assumption is ...

Barriers to entry are lower, but high margin operations are still restricted. THE FACTS: By now you probably know that the Federal ...

It’s innovative, but will companies embed it for their mission control? THE FACTS: Last week Hivemapper introduced its 3D earth maps Android ...

We just released “Drones in the Channel: 2016 Market Report,” a research study examining drone sales and distribution channels in North America. ...

We just launched a new research survey exploring your drone-buying experiences, where you bought, what seller services matter, and where you intend ...

“It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” – attributed to Yogi Berra I was recently asked in an interview to ...

By Jonathan Rupprecht, Esq. for Drone Analyst This past year, as I attended many drone conferences, I was struck by how eager ...

What a difference a year makes. Last year at this time, I reflected back on the news and trends of the commercial ...

What the heck is ADS-B and why should I care? I asked myself that question a year-and-a-half ago, because I kept seeing ...

These days it seems just about anyone can get an FAA Section 333 Exemption that allows them to legally use small unmanned ...

We have launched a new 10-question research survey on unmanned traffic management technology to get your opinions about ADS-B solutions for small drones.  ...

By Jonathan Rupprecht, Esq. for Drone Analyst In response to the rapidly growing drone industry, there are now many attorneys and law ...

UPDATE: September, 2016. This report has been updated to include the latest market trend and FAA Part 107 rules I just released a new ...

This post also appears in The Market section of sUAS News. ----- Have you noticed the growing number of market forecasts for ...

By Steve Maller for Drone Analyst My brief but productive visit last month to the 2015 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) in ...

On February 15, 2015, the commercial drone industry breathed a collective sigh of relief. The Federal Aviation Administration’s proposed new rules for ...

Judging by the headlines, 2014 turned out to be the year for drones. I referenced in Tweets a total of 503 articles ...

What if you could talk to a drone?  No, seriously.  You can already talk to a locomotive, so why not talk to ...

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="no" ...

Last week I had the pleasure of participating in a two-day symposium on unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) hosted by the Northern California ...

What do medicine, batteries, and forgotten anniversary gifts have in common?  They are the most likely items consumers will want to be ...

This post also appears in The Market section of sUAS News. As the Federal Aviation Administration prepares new guidelines for the use ...

Over the course of three days in August, I along with more than 670 participants at the Ohio UAS Conference 2014 in ...

I love the look of the Tesla Model S, but I’d never get one. Somehow, the opportunity to pay $100K to drive ...

Last week my colleague Mitch Solomon and I were privileged to be in the company of more than one thousand farmers in ...

My guest blogger is Mitch Solomon of Aironovo and this is an excerpt from his post which we developed together. You can ...

This is Part 2 in a two-part series that summarizes my views on why video/film/cinema – not agriculture and farming -- will ...

This is Part 1 in a two-part series that summarizes my views on why video/film/cinema – not agriculture and farming -- will ...

Just like Google vs. Apple When the Apple iPad first appeared on the market in 2010, I didn't jump in to buy ...

I just released the findings of my two-month survey studying the impact of FAA rules on small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) in ...

For some the thought of using Twitter or Facebook or LinkedIn for their small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) business seems, well, just ...

Confused by the FAA's small drone regulations? Feeling choked as a business? As you know, the FAA declares they govern *all* airspace, ...

The year was 1775. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, ...

From earliest times, humans have held a fascination with the “bird’s eye” view from above. Therefore it's not surprising that, not long ...

I love drones. No, not the big high-altitude ones like the Predator Drone, I mean the smaller low-altitude ones like Aeryon, Flexrotor, Phantom, and ...

This post provides a few helpful links to get you started on the journey of understanding Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations for ...

What do you think when you hear the word drone or unmanned aerial system (UAS) or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)? Drones come ...