SPH Engineering

13/05/2026

🔍 Find the Missing Person FASTER Drone's Expanding Square Search Pattern

11/05/2026

Get MORE Angles: Circle Photogrammetry vs. Grid Mission

08/05/2026

PRO Drone Hack - Make Corners SMOOTH and Fly FASTER!

07/05/2026

We covered this project as a preprint. Now it's published, and we went deeper on how the flights were actually designed and what the system is doing under the hood.

Researchers at the UAA: University of Alaska Anchorage mounted a methane sensor on a DJI M300, planned low-altitude grid surveys in UgCS, and flew over three real abandoned wells in Alaska. The results just passed peer review in Sensors.

Ten flights. Three visits. Active leaks detected, including while remediation crews were on site.

Check it out!

A peer-reviewed UAA study validates drone methane detection across ten flights over three abandoned wells in Alaska using UgCS, SkyHub, and a DJI M300.

06/05/2026

Lidar Calibration EASIER Figure-8 Pattern inbuilt in UgCS

05/05/2026

One week out from SPH Engineering Demo Days in (May 14-15), and we have one update to share.

This year, alongside DJI, we'll be flying Inspired Flight drones during live demonstrations. Our sensor integrations are built to work across platforms, and Demo Days is where we put that into the air, on different airframes, in front of you.

Two days of live flights with magnetometers, GPR, echo sounders, methane detectors, and more. UgCS and SkyHub are running the missions—the engineers behind the integrations are available for direct conversations.

Registration closes this week: https://www.sphengineering.com/news/demo-days-2026-experience-sph-engineerings-drone-sensor-technologies-in-action

04/05/2026

UgCS Supports EVERY Lidar on the Market (DJI, Rock, YellowScan & MORE)

01/05/2026

Convert ANY Route to Waypoints in UGCS!

29/04/2026

From above, with precision — snapshots from drone-based UXO survey operations. ✇ 🔎

29/04/2026

Drone Mapping Corridor Route in Seconds!

28/04/2026

Most flight planners are built DJI-first. If you're flying ArduPilot, PX4, or a custom build, you've felt it. Half-supported parameters. Manual workarounds. Connection setups that may take longer than the mission.

On Thursday, April 30, Support Engineer Valerijs is running a free live session on how UgCS handles all of them. Same workflow, same interface, same planner.

What he'll cover:

• Supported platforms out of the box
• Custom drone profiles when yours isn't in the list
• Swapping drones mid-plan (what UgCS recalculates, what stays)
• What actually changes in planning between DJI and non-DJI
• New Herelink autoconnect

45 min + live Q&A. Free. Recording sent to everyone who registers.
19:00 Riga / 12:00 EDT / 09:00 PDT
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8117616633572/WN_G2YAZXDkQ-iEC1aGrvMGKA