In 2020, wildfires scorched 45 million acres (18 million hectares) in Australia, and fifty-eight thousand wildfires burned 10.27 million acres (4.16 million hectares) in the United States. California suffered an estimated $100B total economic cost from wildfires in a single … Read More
Drone Amplified Founder Elected to National Academy of Inventors
Drone Amplified’s founder and CEO Carrick Detweiler has been elected a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors. NAI’s Senior Member program recognizes early-stage innovators and inventors whose success in patents, licensing and commercialization … Read More
Bureau of Land Management 2020 UAS Report
BLM UAS crews flew 488 aerial ignition missions for just over 110 hours of total flight time in 2020. As the map shows, IGNIS aerial ignition missions stretched from prescribed fire support in the Southeast … Read More
Congress needs to be Careful about Banning All Parts for Drones made Outside the U.S.
By Carrick Detweiler The end of summer means the heart of fire season for many Americans. You’ve probably read about a fire somewhere in the United States; so far this year, more than 43,000 fires … Read More
Drone Amplified’s Simon Weibel Features in National Geographic
Our very own Simon Weibel was interviewed on the ground in California as part of the National Geographic story. The article said he “brought along a funnel-shaped attachment for the underside of a drone, a … Read More
IGNIS 2 Hits the Headlines Across the U.S.
Drone Amplified’s CEO Carrick Detweiler talks about how drones play a pivotal role in fighting fires and how Drone Amplified’s IGNIS 2 is spearheading prescribed ignitions to fight fires throughout the U.S. right now. Drones ... Read More
Texas Has Lift off with Maiden Mission
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department State Fire Program Leader Chris Schenck announced this month that they had celebrated their first operational mission with unmanned R-372PW (Hans) with IGNIS 2 on August 25th. The Department is ... Read More
IGNIS 2 featured on Bloomberg News
Drone Amplified’s CEO Carrick Detweiler talks about how Drones play a pivotal role in fighting fires and how Drone Amplified’s IGNIS 2 is spearheading prescribed ignitions to fight fires throughout the US right now. Full … Read More
U.S. Forest Service Turns to Drones to Protect those in the Air and on the Ground
The U.S. Forest Service has committed to reduce human flights in high-risk situations and move to Unmanned Aerial Systems where possible when using prescribed fires. “Prescribed fires are an essential tool for increasing landscape resiliency … Read More
Drone Prescribed Burning Saves $14,000 a Day – USDA
A United States Department of Agriculture briefing paper on Unmanned Aircraft Systems aerial ignition operations has found that using a drone for prescribed burning costs approximately $1,800 a day compared to the $16,000 a day … Read More