Tag Archives: drone
Mapping Internet Deserts
North Carolina uses GIS to identify rural communities with poor broadband access to help farmers and fight poverty When Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack visited North Carolina last year to announce a $17.5 million grant for broadband connectivity, it felt like a lottery win for Warren County officials. Without the vital Internet connections that drive economic...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 06/09/23
Association for Geographic Information Partners with British Cartographic Society Bowman Acquires MTX Surveying Birmingham Creates Interactive Mapping Portal using Bluesky Tree Data Valmont Records Longest BVLOS Drone Flight on the Wings of T-Mobile 5G Applications Invited for URISA’s Vanguard Cabinet Commercial UAV Expo Announces 2023 Conference Program and Speaker Line-Up Commercial UAV Expo Program Released ...
Add a Drone to Survey Fieldwork
Innovative drones offer a fast, accurate option for large-area survey data collection Since the first use of drones for commercial purposes in 2006, the drone industry has rapidly gained momentum and introduced new capabilities to serve a wide range of applications. Surveying and mapping projects pose unique challenges due to the importance of accuracy and...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 03/24/2023
The American-Made CAP50 Drone Takes Flight Geo Connect Asia 2023 Draws Strong International Attendance Progress on Second-Gen Galileo Capabilities Graphisoft’s Archicad Collaborate Makes BIM Technology More Accessible This 89-year-old has Attended CONEXPO-CON/AGG for Six Decades Bluesky Partners with SkyFi to Widen Global Access to Aerial Imagery Airbus Signs Agreement with TerraNIS to Export Farmstar in...
Sky High
UAVs deliver practical and highly technical mobile mapping Collecting imagery with uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) is ideal for a variety of applications including topographic mapping, forestry ground and canopy measurements, powerline corridor mapping, Digital Terrain Model (DTM) generation, high-resolution digital imagery, and orthophoto production, along with support for a variety of other mapping needs. Historically,...
Farming From Space
Airbus and Sentinel Fertigation use satellite imagery to improve sustainable crop production With help from Airbus’ detailed high-resolution 30cm satellite imagery provided by Pléiades Neo, a Midwest crop management software platform is offering a streamlined process for farmers fertilizing crops via irrigation (known as fertigation). Using multispectral imagery of field conditions, Lincoln, Nebraska-based Sentinel Fertigation...
