All posts by Paul Braun
Cutting through the Hype
A roadmap for leveraging UAS for aerial mapping practitioners in the United States. I often ask my clients if they’ve had a conversation in the last 24-48 hours where the use of drones has come up. Invariably, they chuckle a bit and answer, “Yes.” Virtually all professional conferences in the geospatial industry have numerous presentations...
UAS Takes Autism to the Sky
A mapping project helps kids with autism by coaching them to build and fly a UAS (and make movies with it); the project also reveals sound business practices stemming from this new technology. What was it that got you into the surveying and mapping profession? Surveyors often state that it was an interest in math...
Pangaea: Crowdfunding Project Takes Autism to the Sky
There is a good bit of discussion these days around crowdsourcing, be it to acquire geospatial data from people in the field or to gather funding to develop new products and services. The convergence of crowdsourcing and emerging geospatial tech is an exciting one as noted in the March 5th issue of this newsletter. At...
