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Wingtra announces its newest payload: MicaSense Altum

WingtraOne’s newest payload provides higher accuracy, higher potential coverage and thermal insight on water stress for multispectral drone mapping projects.

March 23, 2020

Company news Product release

WingtraOne announces enhanced data compatibility with Trimble Business Center

A new level of WingtraOne integration into TBC seamlessly enhances workflows for a range of projects within a single software platform.

March 11, 2020

Case study

Drone survey gives Ports of Indiana a high-accuracy business upgrade

This Midwest survey firm is making a name for itself using WingtraOne to offer business-enhancing drone mapping outputs for clients like Indiana’s port authority.

March 3, 2020

Case study

Drone solar land survey data prevents construction errors on flooded Illinois soil

When BFW needed to survey a challenging solar farm site, they turned to WingtraOne for data that cut client and their own costs while preventing the client’s planning errors.

February 19, 2020

Company news Product release

WingtraOne high-altitude propellers: fly up to 5000 m (16,400 ft) and still map large areas at high accuracy

These new WingtraOne propellers are lifting the standard around professional drone mapping at high altitudes—learn how and where they work.

February 4, 2020

Drone know-how

What’s the difference between PPK and RTK drones, and which one is better?

These two satellite location data correction methods have been around a while for terrestrial surveying, but when applied to drone mapping, their differences impact reliability and ROI.

January 16, 2020

Company news Product release

Wingtra and Delair sign on dotted line to offer practical business insights from large, high-accuracy drone mapping projects

The WingtraOne mapping drone and delair.ai artificial intelligence (AI)-powered software will now be promoted in both companies’ portfolios of solutions for extracting useful business insights from large, high-accuracy drone mapping projects.

January 13, 2020

Drone know-how

What are the best mapping drones in wind?

Learn why all mapping drones in wind will face limits and which ones are designed to deliver robust, reliable data at higher levels.

December 19, 2019

Case study

Norwegian government saves time and money on road surveys with VTOL drone data [ROI study]

The Norwegian Roads Administration has an ambitious zero-fatality road safety goal, and WingtraOne is helping them achieve it with way more efficient, cost-effective and accurate road surveys.

December 6, 2019

Company news Product release

Wingtra partners with DroneDeploy for preferred processing of WingtraOne data

WingtraOne drone is now the first VTOL solution to be verified and tested by DroneDeploy, an enterprise drone software company.

December 3, 2019

Case study

Drone oil spill survey offers first-of-its-kind view for cleanup

Breaking from years of traditional oil spill survey experience, this resource consultancy firm took WingtraOne halfway around the world to improve response efforts on a high-profile incident.

November 21, 2019

Case study

VTOL drone mining surveys improve operations at established coal reserve [case study]

This 30 year-old coal mine is saving time and money with drone mining surveys and stockpile measurements.

November 12, 2019

Product release

Wingtra launches a more affordable PPK drone bundle

Enjoy an economical solution for projects that require absolute accuracy down to 3 cm (1.2 in). Add to this the broadest available coverage at 120 m (400 ft)!

October 31, 2019