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<a href="http://www.parrot.com/">Parrot</a>, the leading European drone group, announced today its collaboration with <a href="https://www.textronsystems.com/">Textron Systems</a>—world leader in unmanned air, surface and land products, services and support for aerospace and defense customers.

 

Combining Parrot’s durable ANAFI USA and ANAFI platform drones with Textron Systems’ Optice™ software, professionals can now enhance their aerial experience and take advantage of the program’s real-time analysis, smart visualization and collaboration capabilities leveraging augmented reality (AR).

Enhance your ANAFI USA experience with Optice

Combined with Parrot ANAFI USA’s 32x zoom and 4K HDR video imaging capabilities— Optice brings advanced mission support functionality to Parrot ANAFI drones and offers faster insights to professional pilots. 

 

Optice’s real-time live stream video capabilities offer Parrot pilots a one-tool solution and the ability to seamlessly add AR overlays to footage using geospatial context, track objects, share operational data with team-mates, record missions and generate reports. With mission playback and recording— the software also offers ANAFI pilots forensic exploitation, integrated with existing geographic information systems (GIS) data, to support the in-depth analysis of sites.

 

Utilizing ANAFI USA’s automatic flight modes, Optice simplifies workflows for tactical mission support— reducing training requirements and applying capabilities to make critical analysis projects easier than ever for professionals.

Textron Systems is already working with a number of organizations including defense agencies, law enforcement and first response departments, and has many active clients who will now be able to integrate Parrot’s ANAFI USA and ANAFI drones into their fleets.

 

Optice is now available for use with ANAFI and ANAFI USA platform drones. To learn more about Textron Systems and Optice, visit <a href="https://www.textronsystems.com/products/optice">textronsystems.com</a>. 

                                                                                                                      

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Partnerships

Textron Systems offers new AR real-time visualization to Parrot professional users

Cybersecurity is a key priority for drones. When drones are used for sensitives missions, users need to trust their drone and make sure their data is fully protected. Drones are seeing an increased use by public safety and inspection professionals, defense forces and enterprise.

 

Parrot significantly invests to implement the best-in-class cybersecurity and personal data protection. Cybersecurity and privacy are implemented by design: from the very beginning of the conception of Parrot drones, security features are defined for data to be protected, and for users to keep full control over their data. Parrot defines the future of drone security by integrating the most advanced security components and secure elements especially from <a href="https://www.wisekey.com/">WISeKey</a>, pioneer in IoT cybersecurity.

A high level of security is checked with internal and external audits as well as a bug bounty programs in partnership with <a href="https://www.yeswehack.com/">YesWeHack</a>, the first European bug bounty platform. <a href="https://www.bishopfox.com/">Bishop Fox</a>, one of the best offensive security company, did an extensive audit that Parrot made publicly available on its <a href="https://www.parrot.com/en/newsroom/ff6-audit">website</a>.

 

This CSO50 Award testifies again the level of trusted drones Parrot provides to the most demanding professionals in the world.

Winners will be presented at the annual CSO50 Conference + Awards taking place November 16-18, 2021.

 

To follow the CSO50 conference: <a href="https://events.idg.com/event-series/cso50-conference-awards">https://events.idg.com/event-series/cso50-conference-awards</a>

 

To learn more about this award: <a href="https://www.csoonline.com/article/3617034/cso50-2021-awards-showcase-world-class-security-strategies.html">https://www.csoonline.com/article/3617034/cso50-2021-awards-showcase-world-class-security-strategies.html</a>

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Parrot awarded one of the 50 best World Class Security Strategies at CSO50 2021

<a href="http://www.parrot.com/" target="_blank">Parrot</a>, the leading European drone group, announced today its partnership with <a href="https://www.rapidimagingtech.com/" target="_blank">Rapid Imaging</a>, a technology provider delivering geospatial augmented reality (AR) and situational awareness solutions to government and enterprise users.  ANAFI USA and other ANAFI platform drone users will now have access to Rapid Imaging’s SmartCam3D® SDK, allowing them to interact with live drone video in the same ways they would with a map display, such as dropping a pin to mark a location or geocoding a selection from the real-time video stream. 

 

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Parrot ANAFI USA’s precise GPS coordinates and advanced flight features combined with SmartCam3D® provides first responders and military personnel with up-to-date geospatial AR overlays on live video, combining the benefits of both a 2D map display and a Full-Motion-Video display into a single operating picture. said Jerome Bouvard, Parrot Director of Strategic Partnerships. This new partnership will provide easy-to-comprehend data to better assist first responders into making quick and accurate decisions during high-stress missions.
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Parrot continues to expand its global ecosystem of drone software providers through its SDK Partner Program, offering specialized and unique solutions for the growing and evolving needs of its enterprise and professional users. 

 

SmartCam3D overlays valuable geospatial data such as Street Vectors, Road Names, Points of Interest, Polygons, and other pertinent map entities onto real-time, full-motion-video (FMV) provided by the ANAFI USA’s powerful 4K HDR video, 32x zoom, and live video streaming capabilities – providing mission personnel with advanced situational awareness as they perform critical drone operations. These powerful situational awareness capabilities present opportunities across a variety of mission-sets ranging from airborne law enforcement, insurance, and industrial inspections to natural disaster response, real estate, and search and rescue operations. 

 

All data captured through SmartCam3D during sensitive missions is secure, as Parrot drone users must opt-in to share flight data with Parrot’s secure to store footage. Parrot ANAFI USA also features Secure Digital (SD) card encryption, which ensures complete protection of photos and videos if the drone or the SD card is lost. 

 

ANAFI users will find SmartCam3D easy-to-integrate, providing a turn-key solution with features including: 

<ul><li>Geospatial AR, allowing users to enjoy a “Google Maps-like” experience but with live drone video as the background layer as opposed to a satellite image</li>
	<li>Granular declutter options, allowing users to select the types of map entities displayed on their live video feed</li>
	<li>Custom GIS data integration, allowing users to import their own geospatial data to display</li>
	<li>Pin-Dropping, allowing users to mark locations within the live video with AR annotations and communicate those locations to a map display</li>
	<li>Forward- and reverse-geocoding, allowing professional drone pilots to designate a point in the video and immediately receive the geospatial data associated with that point (e.g., Lat/Long or Address) or designate a location (i.e., Lat/Long or Address) and mark the location with an AR annotation within the video display</li>
	<li>Cross-Cuing, allowing end-users to simultaneously navigate a full-motion-video display and map display</li>
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The Parrot ANAFI USA has been a great platform to work with - as a developer with a long history of providing geospatial situational awareness technologies to military end-users, platform metadata reported from the UAV is critical to mission success, said David Geisler, CEO of Rapid Imaging. The team at Parrot does it right, ensuring high-quality, synchronous metadata from the ANAFI and ensuring accurate geospatial information and overlays for end-users.
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Rapid Imaging has been developing and licensing geospatial situational awareness software for over two decades. Its technology was originally deployed with the NASA X-38 in initial unmanned testing and today is deployed with all US Army Tactical Unmanned Systems as a module within the US Army’s Universal Ground Control Station (UGCS). Additional efforts have been with the Federal Aviation Administration, the US Air Force, and a variety of Enterprise Customers in the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance space.

 

The SmartCam3D® SDK is available for Android, iOS, Linux, and Windows systems for use with ANAFI and ANAFI USA platform drones. To learn more about Rapid Imaging and to request access to the SmartCam3D® SDK, please contact Rapid Imaging through its <a href="https://forms.gle/f2Jspv5exxYsyA8y6">contact form</a>. 

 

For more information about ANAFI USA, please contact Parrot through its <a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=G5l9_yI5A0iEGKuAajQUpgCsH1CGycdBk4kEFdSft1pUQUtVOFBIMjBVVjcxUEVURDBMT0JCU1JaSy4u" target="_blank">contact form</a>.

<h2 class="h1">Advanced geospatial augmented reality overlays now compatible with ANAFI platform drones.</h2>

Parrot and Rapid Imaging bring AR situational awareness to professional drone users

<a href="http://www.parrot.com">Parrot</a>, the leading European drone group, announced today its partnership with <a href="http://www.highlander.io">High Lander</a>— a company providing drone fleets with autonomous flight, intelligent airspace control, and coordinated air continuity through its Mission Control platform. 

 

Combining Parrot ANAFI USA and ANAFI platform drones with High Lander’s Mission Control software, professionals can now enjoy best-in-class drone features, mission efficiency and automation through an easy-to-use dashboard.

 

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Parrot is continuously striving to provide our professional users with extended capabilities — allowing them to rapidly adapt their drone operations to fit their changing and urgent needs, said Jerome Bouvard, Parrot Director of Strategic Partnerships. Drone automation and intelligence are at the heart of our product and software developments. This new partnership with High Lander represents another step towards enhanced automation and control capability of our drones.
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Using real-time device reporting and telemetry, first responders can autonomously manage their drone fleets while performing takeoff and landing, route-planning, and other crucial tasks — all from the intuitive comfort of the Mission Control Operations Center dashboard.  The software’s seamless interface paired with the ANAFI USA’s ease-of-operation and rapid deployment provide more safety for responders and allow faster intervention during critical moments. Mission Control’s customized live link generation can also provide team-members onsite with an instant view of a drone’s video feed for fast assistance during search-and-rescue missions. 

 

For surveying and mapping missions, operators can enjoy improved control modes including ‘Path,’ which sets an automated plan including multiple waypoints, telemetric, gimbal and payload settings; and ‘Modeling &amp; Mapping,’ which allows operators to survey an area in detail as they efficiently create 2D maps and 3D models using Parrot ANAFI’s precise GPS coordinates capabilities. Furthermore, operators can also benefit from Mission Control’s Payload Sidebar, which enables switching instantly to thermal imaging, an invaluable tool for a variety of specific missions, such as emergency search &amp; rescue, police pursuits, or even solar panel inspections. Parrot ANAFI USA’s integrated FLIR Boson Thermal sensor and powerful 32x zoom make it easy to quickly identify thermal anomalies and centimetric hot spots from an altitude of up to 40 meters.

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As one of the top players in the field, we are proud to partner with Parrot to pair our Mission Control platform with ANAFI USA and ANAFI drones and deliver broader hardware options to our customers, said High Lander CTO, Ido Yahalomi. As a hardware-free system, Mission Control is compatible with leading drone manufacturers’ solutions, now including Parrot, to provide our customers with the freedom of customizing their drone fleets with best-in-class UAVs.
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High Lander is already working with a number of prominent organizations including police departments, sheriff’s offices, fire stations, and forestry services, and has 12 active clients who will now be able to use Parrot’s ANAFI USA and ANAFI drones in their fleets.

 

The High Lander Pilot app is available for download on Android and iOS systems for use with ANAFI and ANAFI USA platform drones. To learn more about High Lander or to register for an account, visit <a href="https://www.highlander.io/">https://www.highlander.io/</a>.

 

For more information about ANAFI USA or for any request, please contact Parrot through the ANAFI USA <a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=G5l9_yI5A0iEGKuAajQUpgCsH1CGycdBk4kEFdSft1pUQUtVOFBIMjBVVjcxUEVURDBMT0JCU1JaSy4u">contact form</a>.

<h2 class="p">Parrot drones professional users benefit from an advanced control during complex fleet operations.</h2>

Parrot and High Lander enhance drone fleet automation 

<a href="http://www.parrot.com">Parrot</a>, the leading European drone group, is launching its Bug Bounty program with <a href="https://www.yeswehack.com/fr/">YesWeHack</a>, the first European crowdsourced security platform.

 

Through this partnership, Parrot benefits from YesWeHack's vast community of cybersecurity researchers to identify potential vulnerabilities in its drones, mobile applications and WebServices.

 

The Bug Bounty program will take place in two phases:

 

<ul><li>The private programs will initially give exclusive access to selected security researchers and will include future Parrot drone models. The expertise and diverse skills of the researchers will confirm the high level of security of the products before they are marketed, for the greater benefit of Parrot users' security and the protection of their data.</li>
	<li>After a first phase in a private Bug Bounty program, and after being commercialized, the products will enter a public program. Their security will then be scrutinized by the entire YesWeHack community, representing more than 22,000 cybersecurity researchers.</li>
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Cybersecurity is a priority for Parrot. Parrot provides its users with full transparency on the security of their data and has conducted numerous security audits on its products, both internally and by its customers. The complete assessment conducted by Bishop Fox, one of the most recognized private companies for professional offensive security services, is published on its <a href="https://www.parrot.com/fr/securite-vie-privee">website</a>.

 

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After the integration of cybersecurity from the initial design phase of Parrot drones, the Bug Bounty launched with YesWeHack completes the audits and brings an additional step of control. In the event of a flaw, YesWeHack's community of cybersecurity researchers will detect it and allow Parrot to correct it, before real attackers can misuse it.  - Victor Vuillard, Chief Security Officer and CTO Cybersecurity of the Parrot Group.
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We are delighted to support Parrot in its commitment to the drone and user's data security. The richness and diversity of the YesWeHack community offers the spectrum of skills required to cover the full range of perimeters, whether hardware or applications. The public Bug Bounty phase, which will take place in a second phase, will allow Parrot's products to be confronted with the expertise of several thousand researchers, thus reinforcing its transparency in cybersecurity. Says Guillaume Vassault-Houlière, CEO of YesWeHack.
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The program will provide Parrot with an ongoing analysis of the security of its products in addition to the various security audits already carried out.