An interesting chat with Wayne, Kickstarter star and all round good egg. Its not easy bringing a new product to market, especially one that pushes the current envelope a little further. In this case time aloft, Wayne has already flown…
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RIEGL and Applanix Take Flight on UAV
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RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems (www.riegl.com) and Applanix Corporation (www.applanix.com) announced today that the Applanix AP50 GNSS-Inertial sensor system was successfully integrated with RIEGL’s VQ-820-GU topo-bathymetric airborne laser scanner on board the Schiebel CAMCOPTER® S-100 UAV. The RIEGL VQ®-820-GU is specifically…
Aerial Mapping with unmanned aircraft.
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Beaver creek engineering and architecture services company Woolpert have released a video of their Nova III in operation. The Nova III is constructed by Florida based company Altavian the two companies have formed a strategic partnership announced back in February.…
NASA Flies Dragon Eye Unmanned Aircraft Into Volcanic Plume
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NASA Earth science researchers last month traveled to Turrialba Volcano, near San Jose, Costa Rica, to fly a Dragon Eye unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) — a small electric aircraft equipped with cameras and sensors — into the volcano’s sulfur dioxide…
New GeoSnap Products from Field of View Streamline Multispectral Mapping
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David Dvorak from Field of View wrote to tell us about their products expect a G+ Hangout with David soon. Field of View, an aerial imaging technology company specializing in agriculture, recently released their GeoSnap product line that integrates tightly…
Agisoft release 30 day trial version of PhotoScan Pro
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Agisoft PhotoScan Pro allows to generate high resolution georeferenced orthophotos (up to 5 cm accuracy with GCP) and exceptionally detailed DEMs / textured polygonal models. The fully automated workflow enables a non-specialist to process thousands of aerial images on a…
Elimco:- High Precision landings
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Speaking to sUAS News Rodrigo Valdivieso is confident of the future UAS market. He shared a compelling video of a precision automated landing. I think I would have put it on the grass though! The first image that comes to…
Woolpert Partners With Altavian For Commercial UAS Data Collection
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Woolpert, a national geospatial, design and infrastructure management firm headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, recently announced it has partnered with Altavian to operate unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for aerial surveying and mapping data collection. Altavian, a leading producer of UASs,…
senseFly’s new eBee drone demonstrates its mapping capabilities in the Swiss Alps at an altitude of 3000 m
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Zermatt, Switzerland – February 19, 2013: senseFly successfully tests the eBee, its new fully autonomous drone for mapping, in the Swiss ski resort of Zermatt. senseFly successfully demonstrated the 3D mapping capabilities of its fully autonomous mini drone under extreme…
QuestUAV 200 Successfully Flown In Antarctica
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Ellsworthy Mountains, Antarctica. Check it out on Google Earth. Its at lat/long -80 -80, its hundreds of miles from anywhere and its very, very white! A team from Northumbria University (Dr Stuart Dunning and Prof John Woodward) left UK in…
