Category Archives: Energy/Utilities
HyperStacking GPR
A new technology shows promise for enabling users to see deeper targets and operate in noisy conditions. By Jeffrey Feigin, PhD Editor’s Note: The field of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is experiencing a new wave of development. For many of our readers, first impressions of legacy GPR gear included a lot of limitations and confusing images....
Inspecting Over the Line With UAV
One of British Columbia’s first aerial inspection firms takes on a challenging maritime mission using a UAV. Featured image: The Raecon team flies a UAV across the Strait of Georgia, performing an aerial power line inspection. AS DAWN BROKE off the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada, the Raecon Industries team set out by boat...
App Happy: Streaming Utility Surveys
A new app standardizes workflow by turning a list of surveyed points into underground 3D utility maps. Imagine that you’re surveying an underground waterline in your city. You use your survey devices to record the locations of the pipe system, including the manholes, the water valves, and their depths. Using your tablet on-site, you’re able...
40 Under 40, 2017: Adam Schleicher
UTILITY ENGINEER AT THE WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION WISCONSIN, USA WHEN PEOPLE THINK OF SURVEYING, they mainly think of property boundaries and the signifi- cant responsibilities in determining them: the financial and legal implications surveying practitioners bear on behalf of their clients. But this also holds true for other elements of surveying—consider the 3D world...
Disparate Data for Marine Life
Remote sensing data helps to inform ocean planning for energy development around the main Hawaiian islands. Using remotely sensed imagery to map physical and biological patterns in the marine environment enhances our ability to understand how environmental conditions change over broad spatial scales (10s to 100s of kilometers) and temporal scales (years to decades). These...
UAS: It’s Unstoppable and Headed Your Way
From time to time I like to stop and think about the mission of Pangaea and explain that mission to you. My task is exposing you to new, emerging geospatial technologies. But why bother? Here’s a little analogy I thought of to help explain why keeping abreast of new geospatial tech is critical. Imagine emerging...