Seeing is believing: Drones—what are they good for?

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Today’s drones are mostly flying cameras. They are already being put to a wide range of business uses




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Seeing is believing




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Commercial applications








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Commercial drones are emerging as the most promising part of the market




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Seeing is believing






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Up in the air, down on the farm






Up in the air, down on the farm

PHOENIX DRONE SERVICES, operating from a business park on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona, is typical of the small firms that have sprung up in recent years to pursue the commercial opportunities around drones. Its founders, Mark Yori and Brian Deatherage, started off by building radio-controlled planes. To stream live video, they modified a baby monitor and attached its camera to a fixed-wing drone. These were the days of “crash, ...