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Travel Industry Photos has completed certification by the FAA to fly and offer drone hotel photography and video services to their clients.

PORTLAND, Ore. (PRWEB) April 10, 2019

As Brett and Sally Patterson have stayed on top of the ever-changing technology behind hotel photography and video, drones are finally able to capture still photography suitable for web and print. End users have high expectations as it relates to quality, and they wanted to ensure their drone still photography and videos matched their current quality of work.

To officially be able to offer these services, the team had to become certified by the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration). This certification provides a license to pilot these unmanned aircraft. The FAA requires that all pilots flying drones for commercial purposes be licensed under Part 107, meaning any pilot flying and shooting for hotels and resorts will need such certification.

“The FAA is very demanding that commercial drone pilots be profi..

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Astrophysicists sometimes turn to thermal infraredtechnology to help them find and study stars. The technology’s been around for decades, and it’s constantly evolving to reveal more about the cosmos. Now, some of these scientists are bringing their expertise to the world of conservation. If thermal cameras are capable of spotting distant stars, well, they must be capable of finding animals here on Earth, right?

In what the researchers are calling the first official collaborationbetween astrophysicists and ecologists, a team from Liverpool John Moores University went in search of Bornean orangutans, a critically endangered species that hides in the forests of Borneo, a southeast Asian island. A presentation Tuesday at the Unifying Tropical Ecology Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, will highlight the way drones equipped with the astrophysicists’ infrared imaging technology can more quickly and effectively count the number of individuals orangutans in the forest canopy more effectively ..

The world's first commercial drone deliveries are underway in Australia after aviation authorities granted a license to a Google-funded startup.

Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) gave approval to Wing – a subsidiary of Google's parent company Alphabet – to deliver packages via drone, after a trial of the service proved successful.

Only around 100 homes in the suburbs of Canberra will initially be eligible for the drone deliveries, though a wider roll-out is expected.

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Customers will be able to request a range of products to be delivered via drone through a dedicated app, including coffee, ice cream and medicine.

Deliveries can take as little as three minutes from the point of order, Wing claims, with average flights taking around five minutes.

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So, last week, I was droning on about drones and the fact I had to go to flight school to learn how to crash properly.

This week, I thought I’d drone on a little more.

You see, several events around the world of dronage passed through my radar in the past while. There was the infamous incident in the U.K. last December, whereupon “idiots with drones” managed to shut down Gatwick, Britain’s second busiest airport, for more than 24 hours.

This was not funny at all, in that according to reports, drones were spotted more than 50 times in that period. Planes had to be diverted to other droneless airports, and exactly 1.2 gajillion people were stuck in the airport for, quote, “a really long time.”

And we all know how much fun it is to be stuck in an airport.

Thing is, the Sussex police and the army rushed in, and in spite of the manpower and fancy night-vision goggles and armoured vehicles, etc., they couldn’t find a single person responsible.

They didn’t even get a chance to shoot dow..