DroneDeploy launches first drone industry app store

When the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released its Part 107 commercial drone guidelines in August, more than 3,000 people immediately signed up to take the test to become pilots. Those were just the early adopters. Now UAVs are becoming a valuable tool across a wide variety of industries; construction, security, land conservation, archaeology, forensic investigation, and mapping are just a few examples. Accordingly, there are new apps that help businesses use drones as more than just flying cameras. There are apps for flight planning, compliance, insurance, and even tree counting, but these apps have been offered in a fragmented way.