ARDENNA

Ardenna created from the innovative minds of its parent company, Bihrle Applied Research Inc., originally founded in 1973 as an aeronautical research and development firm. Drawing on engineering expertise in the areas of wind tunnel testing, flight dynamics, scale aircraft prototype development, Sense and Avoid technologies, aircraft mathematical modeling & simulation, and specialized software development for the commercial and military UAS communities, Bihrle has been on the cutting edge of aer... onautical R&D solutions since its inception. In 2014, Bihrle’s UAS software development acumen led to a partnership with BNSF Railway and the FAA’s Pathfinder Program to study and develop technologies for the aerial inspection of railway infrastructure conditions. It was immediately apparent to Bihrle that there was a significant gap in the overall inspection market, for automated processing of the vast amounts of aerial imagery collected during UAS inspection flights. In order to address this gap and focus resources on the development of computer vision, machine learning and analytics technologies, Ardenna was born.More