#044 - Drone Swarms For Sustainable Forestry with DroneSeed

#008 - Drones for Whale Snot, Education, and... Women? with Sally French, The Drone Girl: Sally French (aka The Drone Girl) sits down with Ian to discuss important issues in the drone industry. From teaching how to use drones in schools, whale snot, drone industry projections, and the unfortunate lack of females in the industry, Sally sets... by Commercial Drones FM

24 min listen

#048 - What's The Value Of The Drone Industry? with PwC and XYZ Kingfisher APS: Ian takes you to Europe where he investigates the inner workings of how a drone industry market report is created. To do that, he heads to Warsaw, Poland to speak with Adam Wiśniewski, Director of the Drone Powered Solutions team at PwC, who released... by Commercial Drones FM

28 min listen

#003 - How To Get a FAA 'Get Out of Jail Free' Card: Attention commercial drone pilots: learn from Ian how to get access to a little-known FAA program which essentially grants you a "Get Out of Jail Free" card that can be used to help you get out of trouble when operating your drone commercially. Please... by Commercial Drones FM

15 min listen

#004 - Solar Powered Drones & Esri GIS with Devon Humphrey: Ian chats with Devon Humphrey, CEO of Flightline Geographics out of Austin, at the 2016 Esri User Conference in San Diego to cover the announcement of the new AeroHawk solar powered drone and discuss GIS, Esri, and how it's all connected in the drone indu by Commercial Drones FM

37 min listen

#044 - Drone Swarms For Sustainable Forestry with DroneSeed: DroneSeed works with timber companies and non-profits to plant tree seeds, spray them with herbicides, and monitor their growth—all with drones. They're based in Seattle, Washington and are the first company approved by the FAA to deliver... by Commercial Drones FM

30 min listen

#026 - How A Global Enterprise Adopts Drones with Bechtel's Nate Fuller: Bechtel is a massive, global company that tackles multi-billion dollar mega-projects. They plan on integrating drones into their operations for use in their infrastructure, mining, oil and gas, and government services projects. Today, their elaborate... by Commercial Drones FM

30 min listen

#013 - Making Maps with Drones: An Overview: Drone mapping can be a game changer for your business. Learn about why you should be making maps with drones and how to do it successfully. What kind of drone and software do I need? What does it cost? How do I make 3D models? Is it hard? These... by Commercial Drones FM

20 min listen

#005 - Making Drone Software with Nicholas Pilkington: Ian is joined by DroneDeploy's CTO, Nicholas Pilkington, who guides listeners down the rabbit hole of aerial ones and zeroes; revealing secrets from the extremely important—yet unfortunately mysterious—realm of drone software programming. by Commercial Drones FM

25 min listen

#007 - Dissecting Drone Industry News with Ben Popper of The Verge: For The Verge, Ben Popper has reviewed every one of the most important drones of the past few years. Ian and Ben dissect the latest news from the drone industry including 3DR's layoffs, DJI's dominance, the promise of Yuneec, Xiaomi's new drone,... by Commercial Drones FM

40 min listen

#020 - Drone Compliance is Serious For Business with Eric Kubicka: Think you're a serious drone operator? Then you better take compliance seriously too. Eric Kubicka is a founding partner of DroneLogbook, software for flight tracking, logging, and drone compliance. At their peak, DroneLogbook users track thousands of... by Commercial Drones FM

26 min listen

#009 - Solving the Automated Drone Workflow Challenge with Lucas Van Oostrum: Lucas Van Oostrum is co-founder of Delft Aerial Robotics as well as Aerialtronics. The Flying Dutchman joins Ian and tells entrepreneurial tales of starting up a high-end drone manufacturing company in Holland in 2011 and how we'll eventually move... by Commercial Drones FM

37 min listen

#036 - Improving Cell Tower Inspection By Using Drones with AT&T's Art Pregler: AT&T has 65,000 cell sites around the U.S. which require constant maintenance. Some of these cell sites can be towers that are hundreds of feet high and others can be massive stadiums with hundreds of antennae. The site maintenance is accomplished... by Commercial Drones FM

33 min listen

#002 - Drone Venture Capital with Kevin Spain: Ian sits down with Kevin Spain of Emergence Capital where they chat about venture capital trends in the drone space, the future of the commercial drone industry, and tips on what venture capitalists really look for in future (drone) portfolio companies. by Commercial Drones FM

36 min listen

#001 - The First Episode: Learn about the host, Ian Smith, his experience with drones, helicopters, aviation, and the plans for the show moving forward. by Commercial Drones FM

15 min listen

#011 - Drone Remote Sensing for Crop Insurance with Cassidy Rankine: Drones are becoming popular among farmers for analyzing crop health. Cassidy Rankine, PhD and co-founder of Skymatics, proposes another scenario: using drones for crop insurance. Ian and Cassidy discuss this innovative method and even offer a way for... by Commercial Drones FM

31 min listen

#010 - Constructing a National Drone Operator Network with Andrew Dennison: Andrew Dennison, COO of LIFT Technologies, recounts his journey into the drone industry. Ian and Andrew cover topics from real-world construction and insurance case studies, the drone deliverables that enterprise clients expect, not flying drones... by Commercial Drones FM

33 min listen

#029 - How To Conduct High Precision Drone Surveys: What To Use and Tips On Improving with Mark Blacklin: Topographic data is some of the most sought after information that can be generated by drones. To ultimately derive this data, terrain contours, point clouds, and digital surface models are created using software like Pix4D and Autodesk Civil 3D. Mark... by Commercial Drones FM

29 min listen

#017 - Inside Drone News with Austin Smith: Ian is joined by Austin Smith, GM of Inside.com, a startup which focuses on tech newsletters. Inside.com produces the Inside Drones newsletter, a thoughtfully curated, twice-weekly digest of the most interesting drone news. Ian and Austin discuss how... by Commercial Drones FM

35 min listen

#027 - Raising $20 Million and Creating the World's Largest Drone Data Platform with Mike Winn: DroneDeploy is a drone data company who recently raised $20 million to power the further development of their software. Tens of thousands of users from more than 135 countries have collectively processed more than 8 million acres of data using... by Commercial Drones FM

47 min listen

#030 - LiDAR Drones: What Is LiDAR and Why Do I Need It? with Harris Wang: LiDAR is an impressive and interesting sensor technology which already powers parts of the driverless car industry. LiDAR sensors can somewhat be thought of as a clever mixture of photogrammetry and radar. It is extremely precise and can provide... by Commercial Drones FM

28 min listen

#016 - The DJI Mavic Pro: A Viable Commercial Drone Platform: DJI has announced their Mavic Pro drone, the smallest and most powerful drone they've ever created. The new Mavic Pro drone platform has specs and pricing that best the popular Phantom 4 and newly announced GoPro Karma which make it a promising... by Commercial Drones FM

21 min listen

#006 - FAA Part 107 Test Prep and Study Guide for Drone Pilots: Test prep and study guide for the FAA's Part 107 knowledge test for commercial drone pilots. Ian reviews the entire 35 questions—and answers—that he was administered during the online test (for Part 61 certificated pilots) for the upcoming... by Commercial Drones FM

37 min listen

#012 - Fixed-Wing, BVLOS Drones for Industry with Benjamin Benharrosh: Co-founder Benjamin Benharrosh, lets us in on the evolution of Delair-Tech—the first company in the world to achieve BVLOS certification for their fixed-wing drones. Since starting in 2011, the French company has been involved with railroad and... by Commercial Drones FM

37 min listen

#015 - GoPro vs. DJI: Who's Goliath?: Publicly traded GoPro have officially revealed the hotly anticipated Karma drone. Incidentally, this first effort into the industry directly competes with the largely dominant DJI, a private company, who happen to have a similar drone of their own... by Commercial Drones FM

20 min listen

#019 - Breaking Down the Crash of 3D Robotics with Forbes' Ryan Mac: For Forbes, Ryan Mac has written some of the drone industry's seminal articles—covering DJI's Frank Wang, Parrot's Henri Seydoux, and now, Chris Anderson in "The Crash Of 3D Robotics, North America's Most Promising Drone Company". Ryan and Ian... by Commercial Drones FM

38 min listen

#018 - Drones in Mining with Emmanuel de Maistre: Redbird, a French drone software company, was recently purchased by Airware, an American drone software company. A few weeks before the sale was made public, Ian and Emmanuel, Redbird's then-CEO (now VP of AEC at Airware), recorded this podcast... by Commercial Drones FM

27 min listen

#014 - A Bitcoin-based Drone Delivery Network and the Hover Drone App with Dan Held: There's a favorable exchange rate when transitioning from bitcoin to drones, according to Dan Held, the co-founder of Hover—a mobile app for drone pilots that enhances situational awareness. Ian speaks with Dan about why he chose to make a drone... by Commercial Drones FM

36 min listen

#035 - A Drone Can Literally Kill You—But Also Save Your Life with PrecisionHawk's Thomas Haun: Thomas Haun is Executive Vice President of PrecisionHawk, a drone company in North Carolina with $29 million in total venture funding. Besides developing their own software, making a fixed-wing drone, and reselling DJI drones, PrecisionHawk works on... by Commercial Drones FM

39 min listen

#022 - Drone Intelligence, Insight, and Peace of Mind with Joshua Ziering: As a classically trained model aircraft pilot, Joshua Ziering didn't easily imagine a future beyond flying chalupa-shaped blimps inside NHL stadiums. So he did what came naturally and built the future himself. Joshua, along with Jon Hegranes, is... by Commercial Drones FM

34 min listen

#033 - Is The Drone Industry In a Decline? Lily's Downfall, Parrot's Layoffs, & The Latest Drone Industry News with Recode's April Glaser: Lily Robotics has spectacularly failed and is being sued by the City of San Francisco. CES 2017 is said to have had fewer drone companies than previous years. Parrot laid off a third of its drone division. GoPro's Karma drone literally fell out of the... by Commercial Drones FM

55 min listen

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