Last May, DJI announced the Matrice 300 RTK, a drone designed notably for industrial inspections. As the central platform for infrastructure inspections, Sterblue couldn’t miss the opportunity to add this powerful machine to our family of compatible drones. Here’s why and how we’ve made our software ready to fly with the brand new M300!

One of the core values of Sterblue says: “be bold”. Today we are proud to live up to that value by releasing the first generation of Sterblue Labs, our open-source and open engineering initiative.

Location makes it possible to perform precise trajectories, generate accurate orthophotos, detect and classify vegetation, extract the real position of possible anomalies and much more. You got it, location is a core aspect at Sterblue. Luis Calisto, Lead Geospatial Engineer at Sterblue, explains how location is present on the data we collect, process and analyse, as well as on the products we deliver to our customers.

Since 2016, drones with Sterblue’s software have been flying around thousands of infrastructures spread across 16 different countries. In this article, we will tell you 5 things you need to know to fly a drone with Sterblue.

Sterblue’s automatic flight mode for off-the-shelf drones is based on a parameterized 3D model that acts as a virtual twin of the actual asset that is being inspected. Etienne, Drone AI Engineer at Sterblue, takes you through our journey designing and deploying these virtual twins, which allow not only to generate accurate trajectories but also to aggregate complex and large data into actionable insights.

Sterblue CEO, Geoffrey Vancassel shares is view on how automatic drone-based inspections can help preventing wildfires.