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The Man Building America's Drone Systems
The U.S. has moved to block foreign-made drones from receiving FCC approval — but what fills the gap? Bryce sits down with Mike Horton, CEO of HYFIX Spatial Intelligen...
The Invisible Job Market for Drone Mapping
The drone mapping profession is real, growing fast, and largely invisible to anyone who hasn't already stumbled into it. Bryce breaks down why one of the fastest-growi...
What Your Drone Actually Sees
This episode of The Drone Network demystifies what actually happens between the moment a drone pilot closes a mission and the moment someone uses that data to make a d...
Drone Imagery, Spatial Scale, and the Future of Physical AI
What makes drone data valuable — and who should be using it? Ben Kovacs is the Senior Product Marketing Lead at Spexi Geospatial, and he spent his early career inside...
The Drone You'll Never See Is Changing the World
The drone you'll never see is also the most important one in the sky. It weighs one gram less than the FAA's registration threshold, which means it barely appears in o...
The Biggest Mistake Drone Pilots Make Has Nothing to Do with Flying | Dylan Gorman
Dylan Gorman has flown 7,500+ drone missions, built and sold a drone business, and trained tens of thousands of pilots through PilotByte. He's one of the most experien...
Maps Are Infrastructure and They Need Data
What happens to the data after it's collected? In this episode, Bryce explores the real-world value locked inside a standardized drone imagery network — and why the mo...
Why Every Map You've Ever Used Is Already Outdated
Every map you've ever used was already outdated the moment you opened it. In this episode, Bryce breaks down why the world's mapping infrastructure has a staleness pro...
Why 249 Grams Is the Key to Drones as Infrastructure
In 2018, pilot Alec Wilson was on approach to Vancouver's low airspace when he spotted something that shouldn't have been there: a small consumer drone in a corridor u...
How One Person Creates Missions for Thousands of Drone Pilots
What does it take to turn a client request into a flyable drone mission — safely, at scale, across thousands of pilots worldwide? Mason Pahl, Geospatial Data Lead at S...
The Most Unexpected Places Drones Are Flying
What do a thousand-year-old French vineyard, the death zone on Mount Everest, and the 2024 Paris Olympics have in common? A drone showed up and changed everything. Bry...
Bats, Stars, and 10,000 Trees – Drones Did That?
A bat-inspired drone that navigates burning buildings using bathroom faucet sensors. A national conspiracy theory sparked by stars. Ten thousand trees planted in a sin...
10,000 Pilots Answer Your Top Drone Questions
Over 10,000 LayerDrone pilots answer your most common questions about professional drone work. From equipment recommendations to future predictions, this episode compi...
How Consumer Drones Became Modern Infrastructure | Alec Wilson
Alec Wilson, COO at Spexi Geospatial, encountered his first drone while flying a helicopter in Vancouver, BC. He then helped establish drone regulations before meeting...
The different kinds of work for drone pilots | Benji Nevatt of Bluegrass Dronography
Benji Nevatt has been flying drones professionally since 2017, starting as a police department drone operator and now running Bluegrass Dronography in Western Kentucky...
What Makes a Successful Drone Pilot? | Graham Anderson
What Makes a Successful Drone Pilot? Graham Anderson, Ops Manager at Spexi Geospatial, has overseen 8,000+ registered pilots on the world's largest standardized drone ...
LayerDrone: From Trusted Alpha to First Autonomous Aerial Data Network
How do you build the world's largest drone imagery network from scratch? Graham Anderson, Operations Manager at Spexi Geospatial, reveals the untold story of LayerDron...