Insights on drone applications across all industries:
By 2030, the commercial drone market is expected to reach US$54.6 billion, growing at a rate of 7.7% CAGR.
The top industries for drone applications are Energy, Construction, and Agriculture.
The most popular application methods are: Drone Mapping & Surveying, Drone Inspections, and Drone Photography & Filming.
The biggest vertical, Energy (Utilities), boasts the greatest variety of use cases. Like in all other industry verticals, drones help reduce time and costs while improving result quality and worker safety.
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229-page drone application report with case studies for all industry verticals
264 application examples including methods, typical results, and typical technology stack
101 real-life case studies with technology, application, concrete problem and solution description as well as value-added metrics
Analysis of the drone market split by Industry, method technology, market size, and growth
View into the future technologies that are currently only starting to be explored and implemented into drones
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DRONEII's Drone Application Report provides a unique insight, analysis, and case studies of drone applications throughout 17 industry verticals.
This extensive 229-page drone application report covers all 15 industry verticals in the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), along with an additional 2 adjusted verticals that are more adequate for the drone industry. These industry verticals include Agriculture, Energy (Utilities), Construction, Health Care, Insurance, and Transportation among others. The report encompasses 264 application examples including methods, typical results, and typical technology stack, which provide the most comprehensive study into how drones are used for business development today. At the end of each industry section, there is also an outlook for current and future market volume as well as the current level of technological complexity.
Furthermore, the Drone Application Report includes 101 real-life case studies that describe how the technology is being used by several companies throughout the world. Each case study has a concrete problem and solution description as well as value-added metrics that shed light on how the applications made work safer and the company more profitable.
By providing information on drone market trends by industry and method, our Drone Application Report can help leverage business opportunities by discovering applications in various industries. It provides a view not only on well-established practices such as inspections and mapping & surveying, but also on future applications that are currently only starting to be explored.
SAMPLE OF COMPANIES MENTIONED:
Aeca Solutions
Aerodyne
Aeromedia
AeroPest
Airteam
AMKVO
Aonic
Apellix
Apex
Ardenna
ASDRO
AT&T
Aviant
BCN Drone Center
Canard
Cooper Copter
Distant Imagery
doks.
Dronamics
Drone Base
Drone Responders
DronesSkycam
Dronecle
Ehang
Engineers with Drones
Everdrone
Expert Drones Africa
Fairfleet
Firmatek
Firnas Aero
Flyability
FlyGuys
gdg Environment
HAMM Companies
Hepta
Idaho Environmental Coalition
IGNIS
InFlight Data
Inkonova
Inmerso
JUIDA
LogXon
Medifly
Meraque
MicroAvia
Midlands State University
MONCLER
Neo Vision
Nordic Unmanned
OFO Tech
Percepto
Quadsat
Radaz
Rectrix Drone Services
ROAV7
Rocketmine
ScoutDI
Sensat
Sensyn Robotics
SkyDrones
Skylark Drones
Skyports
Spectrabiotics
Speedbird Aero
SPH Engineering
ST Engineering
Structural Safety
Sulzer & Schmid
SysCad Solutions
TerraDrone
Thales
The Conversation
UAV Latam
Universite du Luxembourg
Unmanned Life
Uvify
vitDron
Volar Alta
Voliro
VStream
WeFly
xmobots
Zipline
TABLE OF CONTENTS
GLOSSARY
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
2. SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY
2.1. Research Methodology
2.2. Scope Definition & Research Design
2.3. Data Collection
2.4. Data Analysis
2.5. Market Model
2.6. Data Validation
2.7. Report Creation
3. INTRODUCTION
3.1. Drones: What are drones and what can they do?
3.2. Drone configurations/designs
3.3. Major segments of the drone ecosystem
3.4. Drone application categories and methods
3.5. Drone industry verticals and use cases
3.6. Drone market observations
4. DRONE MARKET SIZE
4 Definitions & Introduction
4.1. Drone market: commercial vs. recreational 2023-2030
4.2. Drone market size by industry 2023-2030
4.3. Drone market size by method 2023-2030
5. INDUSTRY VERTICALS
5 Definitions & Introduction
5.1. Agriculture
5.1.1. Case Study - Forest Inventory
5.1.2. Case Study - Palm Tree Counting
5.1.3. Case Study - Crop Analysis and Spraying
5.1.4. Case Study - Drone Spraying
5.1.5. Case Study - Radar Mapping
5.1.6. Case Study - Mangrove Restoration
5.1.7. Case Study - Blueberry Spaying
5.1.8. Case Study - Vinyard Health Analysis
5.1.9. Case Study - Oil Palm Spraying
5.1.10. Case Study - Bagworm Spaying
5.1.11. Case Study - Hemp Health Analysis
5.1.12. Case Study - Reforestation with Drones and AI
5.1.13. Case Study - Revolutionizing Forest Recovery
5.2. Arts, Entertainment & Recreation
5.2.1. Case Study - Digital Fireworks
5.2.2. Case Study - Drone Light Show at the Beach
5.2.3. Case Study - Drone Light Show at Independence Celebration
5.3. Construction
5.3.1. Case Study - Geomagnetic Detection
5.3.2. Case Study - Highway Construction Project
5.3.3. Case Study - Construction Site Surveying
5.3.4. Case Study - Site Progress Monitoring
5.3.5. Case Study - Lemoine Progress Documentation