news

Adding support for GCP

Tuesday, 24 January 2012 00:00

We are proud to announce that the latest release of our PostFlight Suite software now supports the designation of ground control points (GCP). This new feature allows to bring the absolute error of the automatically generated maps down to the level of the relative error, i.e. approximately 10cm depending on the flight altitude and conditions.

 

swinglet CAM selected by UNOSAT

Thursday, 19 January 2012 00:00

UNOSAT experts have been testing small automated flying vehicles since 2010 during a research programme aimed at verifying their potential in humanitarian rapid mapping and damage assessment. The first one they decided to acquire is the swinglet CAM.

read more

 

New offices for senseFly

Thursday, 01 December 2011 00:00

Our young company has just moved into new, larger premises in Ecublens in order to better face the current increase in our sales volume.

 

CTI Startup Label

Tuesday, 29 November 2011 00:00

senseFly was awarded the CTI Startup Label by the swiss confederation innovation promotion agency. The label is a certificate of quality and is a sign of credibility for investors. It confirms that the company is ready for sustainable growth.

 

Strategis Award

Monday, 17 October 2011 00:00

We are proud to announce that we reached the podium and ended up 2nd at the Strategis Award 2011 among 40 competing startup companies. See the links below for more information on the Prix Strategis.

 

link to article in INNO+SWISS

link to article in Bilan

 

Feedback video from professional user

Monday, 17 October 2011 00:00

Andrew Bull, Environmental Services Director at Costain UK, explains how the swinglet CAM speeds up project planning and progress reports by allowing the user to highlight potential problems much faster and in far greater detail than traditionally manned aerial photography. Link to video on Youtube.

 

Best photo award

Friday, 14 October 2011 14:32

An image taken with a swinglet CAM won the Lausanne Photos 2011 competition.

link to a related press article

 

Most Innovative UAV Award

Thursday, 15 September 2011 00:00

senseFly was awarded the first prize for the "Most Innovative UAV Application and Demonstration“ sponsored by the Hexagon Technology Center/Leica Geosystems at UAV-g conference in Zurich, Switzerland. Our demonstration involving two swinglet CAMs has been carried out with the collaboration of R-Pod to provide an intensive user perspective.

 

12'000 images with a swinglet CAM

Wednesday, 14 September 2011 09:44

The R-Pod team reached a total of 140 flights and 12’000 aerial images with a single swinglet CAM over the last nine months. They produced more than 80 geo-referenced maps.

 

InterGEO fair in Germany

Friday, 19 August 2011 09:11

senseFly will present its new and innovative mini-drone solution for remote sensing in mapping and GIS applications at this years InterGEO in Nürnberg from 27 to 29 September.

senseFly welcomes you at Hall 7 - Booth H14. Come and visit us.

 

New mapping examples

Thursday, 04 August 2011 10:10

Have a look at our new set of mapping examples.

 

swinglet CAM over the Paléo Festival

Saturday, 23 July 2011 08:37

Our partner R-Pod flew over the Paléo Festival this week-end. Have a look at the great pictures and geo-reference maps they produced.

 

New senseFly website

Monday, 13 June 2011 22:20

We completely redesigned and updated our website to provide you more information about our products and domains of applications. Very new is the mapping and photogrammetry application page explaining how the swinglet CAM can be used to create geo-referenced orthomosaics and DEM (Digital Elevation Models).

 

New UK and Irish distributor

Wednesday, 04 May 2011 14:46

We are proud to announce the appointment of a new distribution partner. KOREC will promote, sell and support the swinglet CAM in the UK and Ireland. For over 40 years KOREC has been dedicated to providing professional customers with the best possible surveying and GIS mapping instruments. KOREC believes that the swinglet CAM will open up customised aerial photography to a whole new market where previously costs were prohibitive.

 

Archeological views

Tuesday, 29 March 2011 15:42

A swinglet CAM provides usefull perspectives on the remains of an imposing Roman villa recently uncovered on the EPFL campus.
 

New Greek distributor

Thursday, 10 March 2011 15:45

GeoSense will promote, sell and support the swinglet CAM in Greece.
 

PostFlight Suite released

Tuesday, 01 March 2011 15:47

senseFly’s one-stop tool for all the post-flight tasks, including exporting flight trajectories to KML or GPX files and geotagging images has been released.
 

Accurate 2D mapping

Thursday, 02 December 2010 15:50

Photogrammetry professionals use the swinglet CAM for high-precision mapping. Have a look at their impressive results. Here is an example you can open in Google Earth.
 

Best innovation award

Saturday, 16 October 2010 18:47

senseFly got the best innovation award at the Grenoble Innovation Fair (GIF 2010) in the "instrumentation" category.

 

swinglet CAM video on Youtube

Friday, 09 July 2010 18:47

We just released a short video showcasing how the swinglet CAM can easily be deployed.

 

Featured in prime-time

Wednesday, 26 May 2010 18:47

Have a look at this nice TV show by NOUVO highlighting the research background of our company. The same story has been eatured in prime time in the TSR News as well.

 

swinglet CAM launched!

Sunday, 28 February 2010 16:02

We are proud to announce a new product: the swinglet CAM is a fully automatic flying camera that can be programmed to take aerial pictures of various locations and bring them back home within minutes.
 

CTI project for optiPilot

Wednesday, 30 December 2009 16:04

senseFly is awarded a CTI project to further develop the optiPilot technology in collaboration with EPFL-LIS and CSEM. optiPilot is a patent-pending control strategy enabling small flying platforms to avoid collisions with static objects such as trees, buildings or the terrain. More info & video.
 

swinglet ready to take-off

Tuesday, 24 November 2009 16:06

Our swinglet platform is now in production. Orders can be placed by contacting us.
 

Full-page story in newspaper

Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:09

Le Temps just released a one-page story on our startup describing the capabilities and ease-of-use of our first product, the swinglet autonomous flying platform.
 

senseFly's technology on Jetman

Wednesday, 24 June 2009 16:10

In partnership with RC-Tech, we developed a miniature on-board state estimator for Jetman. This system, based on our autopilot technology, is currently used by Yves Rossy and his team to record and analyse the full range of flight parameters for the fine tuning of their next-generation wings.
 

1st Swiss UAS Day

Friday, 27 March 2009 16:12

The 1st Swiss UAS Day aimed at fostering collaborations among Unmanned Aerial System stakeholders in Switzerland. senseFly will take this opportunity to announce its first product" to be released in Q3 2009. Stay tuned!