Category Archives: Aerial/UAS
Why Your First Drone Should Be a Hobby Drone
A low-cost way to get hands-on UAS experience is to purchase a hobby drone and practice with it before making a bigger investment in a commercial-grade unit. I’ve talked to UAS professionals who agree . Why? The low cost makes it easy to afford and less painful should you crack it up. And, trust me...
HxIP as CaaS
How a prominent manufacturer of mapping airborne sensors and solutions has partnered with customers to expand its global online content service. At HxGN LIVE 2015, the annual exhibition and conference for Hexagon (parent company of Leica Geosystems), CEO and president Ola Rollén spoke about a new area of focus for the company: content services, or...
Top of the Crop: Pangaea 2017
As December closes its door, we look back at the year think about its highlights. As your Pangaea editor I examined the 2017 issues ranked by readership. Here’s the top three, why I think they were so popular, and the takeaways from each. Pangaea #190: Don’t Buy a Drone This headline was a bit of...
Flying Stockpiles
A team in Colorado is accurately estimating coal stockpile volumetrics with drones. Arch Coal is the second-largest domestic producer of metallurgical and thermal coal in America, with 96 million tons of coal sold in 2016. In total, Arch represents more than 13% of America’s coal supply from their complexes in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, West Virginia, Wyoming,...
Whole Lotta Droning Going On: Commercial UAV Expo: Part 2
Continuing with my look at last month’s Commercial UAV Expo, here’s more cool UAV-related gear. Thermal Imaging Drone Parrot is known mostly for being a provider of consumer-level drones (full disclosure, I have three of them). Now they are moving into the commercial market. One example is the Parrot Bebop-Pro Thermal. This quadcopter includes two...
Geospatial Holiday Gift Guide
Here’s what xyHt’s Located contributors want for the holidays and their suggestions for great geospatial gifts. Kevin Lidtka Wants a VR Booth For Christmas I would like a special booth that I can sit in. Inside will be VR glasses and a controller so I can walk or fly around my point clouds or 3D...