Drones are now a hot technology area.

Absrtact: UAV is now a hot technology field. Not only are startups emerging in this area, but the giants of Amazon, Google and Facebook have joined. The future of the UAV in the fields of agriculture, energy, supply delivery, research and protection

Drones are now a hot technology area. Not only are startups emerging in this area, but the giants of Amazon, Google and Facebook have joined. The future of the unmanned aerial vehicle in agriculture, energy, supply delivery, scientific research and protection fields have a broad application prospects, unmanned aerial vehicle applications are also developing towards specialization. Recently, PrecisionHawk, an unmanned aerial vehicle that specializes in land surveys, has received 10 million of billions of dollars in financing, representing investors ' confidence in the prospects for the development of the field.

PrecisionHawk is a start-up that uses unmanned aerial route computing and data assessment solutions, founded in 2010 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. The Lancaster platform consists of UAV and flight real-time monitoring and artificial intelligence system. The plane weighs 3 pounds, 2.2 lb., wingspan 4 ft, built-in 600Mhz CPU, built embedded Linux operating system, equipped with WiFi, Ethernet, Bluetooth, USB and other interfaces, as well as optional visual, multispectral, thermal infrared, LiDAR and other kinds of rich sensors and cameras.

Lancaster platform can carry out various land survey tasks, but also can collect and store data in real time, and analyze it afterwards to provide services for customers in agriculture, insurance, environmental protection and other fields.

As a result, PrecisionHawk more as an information company. At the end of the month, the company will launch Datamapper, which customers can use to further apply and study their own survey data, rather than just the PrecisionHawk's investigative reports.

In addition, the company plans to explore application scenarios in new areas, such as oil and gas, emergency response, etc.

This round of financing was received by Millennium Marvell Value, Redhat co-founder Bob Young and Innovate Indiana fund. After this round, its total financing has reached 11 million U.S. dollars. The proceeds from this round of financing will be used for team expansion.