All posts by Lewis Graham
Aerial Perspective: Innovate Solutions
I have been associated with aerial imaging for quite a few years. Strangely, my career in this field began with digital national resource imagery, moved to analog systems, and moved back to digital with the advent of the Z/I Imaging DMC aerial camera system. Each year I find myself saying, “There has never been a...
Business Angle: Cloud Computing – Part 2
With the background information on hypervisors (virtual machines, etc.) provided in part one (PSM October), it should be fairly clear that the cloud computing available to you today is an implementation of virtualization with public access. For example, Amazon Web Services are implemented using Xen (an open-source hypervisor), as is Rackspace. Microsoft Azure cloud services are implemented using a...
Accuracy With Small UAS Mapping
Two recent advances in heretofore unrelated technologies are giving birth to a new way to perform local-area metric mapping. The first is the development of small, unmanned aerial systems (sUAS), spurred on primarily by the miniaturization of autopilot components. The second is the development of novel algorithms for creating digital surface models from collections of...
