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Category Archives: LiDAR
UAV Usage in Wisconsin
Wisconsin Public Radio had a recent story on UAVs in the state. As in other places, operators are looking at the agriculture sector to gather imagery. Law enforcement agencies have used UAVs for aerial pursuit of suspected criminals. Any operations … Continue reading
Posted in GIS, LiDAR
Tagged act 213, criminal charges, GIS, LiDAR, UAV, uav restrictions, wisconsin, Wisconsin Public Radio, wpr
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Online Waveform LiDAR Processing
Joanna Setkowicz has a good instructional post in Online Waveform LiDAR Processing with Terrestrial Scanning. The article mentions using target range, amplitude, reflectance and pulse shape deviation to be able to get points that can then be processed into 3D … Continue reading
Posted in GIS, LiDAR
Tagged 3d laser mapping, GIS, joanna setkowicz, LiDAR, online waveform lidar, terrestrial scanning
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Emerging UAV Use in Agriculture Areas
KXNews out of Bismarck, North Dakota had a good recent story on evaluations of UAVs in agriculture by North Dakota State University over a field east of Williston, North Dakota. It shows an test flight at 200ft grabbing IR imagery … Continue reading
Posted in GIS, LiDAR, UAV
Tagged agriculture, bismarck, Drone, Geomatics, GIS, ir imagery capture, kxnews, ndsu, north dakota, UAV, willison
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UAV Industry And Ending of the Current Tech Funding Bubble
Technology growth cycles move quickly and the UAV industry is not immune to it. The growth over the last year in the United States and across the world is opening up applications to a large, varied usage base with more … Continue reading
Posted in GIS, LiDAR, UAV
Tagged applications, funding, Geomatics, GIS, LiDAR, market strategy, product life cycle, techcrunch, technology bubble, UAV
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UAV Industry Still In Application Test And Evaluation Stage
Since my last posts on this topic a few months ago on this blog, the Prairie Business magazine put out a good article out about the growth adapting issues in the agriculture remote sensing market. The story mentions that the … Continue reading
Posted in GIS, LiDAR, UAV
Tagged aerial imagery, agriculture, decrease commodity prices, Geomatics, GIS, long flights, prairie business, tight budget, UAV
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BNSF Railroad Starting to use UAVs to Survey Rail Assets
BSNF Railroad will be testing UAVs with a FAA Exception to operate Beyond Line of Site. They have 32,500 miles of railroad track and are testing UAVs even with their limited ranges of around 4miles for some models. PrecisionHawk USA … Continue reading
LiDAR Sensors On a Chip To Open Up More Mobile Solutions
The SPAR Point Group has put out a good article about the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, part of the Department of Defense and their assistance in working to product LiDAR sensors on a chip without any mechanical way to … Continue reading
Posted in GIS, LiDAR, UAV
Tagged 51 degrees, darpa, dod, Geomatics, GIS, LiDAR, limitations, no mechanical sensor, spar point group, sweeper, UAV
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Petaflops not for Export To Some Countries
When you consider the world of weather modeling combined with modeling from Geomatics applications, petaflops are what can take it to the next level. This recent BBC story that Intel is restricted from exporting a new generation of Xeon processors … Continue reading
Posted in GIS, LiDAR, Meteorology
Tagged 110, 180, 33, argonne national laboratory, aurora supercomuter, bbc, big data, china tianhe-2, Geomatics, GIS, LiDAR, petaflops, xeon
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FAA Hiring Next Generation of Air Traffic Controllers
The FAA has put out notice they are hiring the next generation of Air Traffic Controllers, as part of their careers they will be involved in integrating UAVs into United States airspace. Application are accepted from March 23 to at … Continue reading
FAA Expands Commercial UAVs Flight to All Areas Under 200ft if Already Approved
The FAA on March, 24, 2015 expanded the flight range for all approved commercial UAV companies to the entire US Airspace (exceptions for airports and other restricted airspace) under 200ft. This is going to open up many more flight areas … Continue reading
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Tagged 200ft, blanket approval, commercial, FAA, Geomatics, GIS, gis united states, UAV
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