Tag Archives: uas
UAS Processing as a Service
Speed, improved workflows, scalability, and analytical tools have boosted the popularity of such services—especially in these times of staffing challenges Creating deliverables from your UAS captured data, orthophotos, point clouds, photo meshes, and terrain models, can put a premium on the skills of your staff and processing resources. This is why an increasing number of...
UAS and ALTA Surveys
Part 3 Precision, accuracy, and completeness are the end goals of UAS post processing, but how you get there to meet ALTA standards requires extra care. In Parts One and Two of this article in the September and October 2022 issues of xyHt we looked at the time/cost/precision proposition of using UAS for elements of...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 10/21/2022
Teledyne Announces Ladybug6 Cameras for High Accuracy 360-Degree Spherical Image Capture Hexagon and LocLab Work to Accelerate Adoption of Smart Digital Realities Vexcel Imaging Introduces UltraCam Eagle 4.1 Photogrammetric Aerial Camera System Phase One to Launch New Calibration Center at Denver Headquarters Soaring Eagle Technologies Receives Long Distance FAA Waiver for UAS Inspections Common Ground Alliance...
UAS and ALTA Surveys – Part Two
Surveying firms that have been successful in incorporating UAS data in ALTA surveys adopt best practices to ensure precision standards are met. Plan, execute, and check. In Part One of this three-part series in the September xyHt issue, we looked at the time/cost/precision proposition of using UAS for elements of ALTA surveys. Firms interviewed agreed...
UAS and ALTA Surveys – Part One
Recognizing that with the right equipment and practices, specifications for ALTA surveys can easily be met, surveyors have rapidly adopted UAS for these and many other types of surveys. The adoption of UAS in the surveying profession has been more rapid than some past tech. It was only 2016 when the FAA Part 107...
Fusing Aerial and Mobile Lidar Data
Creating accurate as-builts of a complex facilities is no longer a long-term project. When the Caltech Group was founded by two men in Calgary, Alberta, in 1990, they set out with the goal of becoming Western Canada’s go-to company for geomatics services with an eye on specializing in the oil, gas, and utility areas—those companies...
