Category Archives: Aerial/UAS

Category Archives: Aerial, UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems), UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), Drones & More

It’s a Small (Sensor) World

The fascinating emerging world of geophysical and geological exploration with drones For the last 10 years we have seen more and more applications adopting uncrewed aircraft or drones and adding them to their workflows to expand businesses and offer more versatility to their customers. But like in every other new technology, adoption is not uniform,...

Drone Processing Services: The Importance of Keeping the Human in the Loop

Using a drone processing service can make firms, large and small, more competitive. AI is working wonders for specific steps, but can’t do it all. Vendors and users are finding out how imprtant the human elements is. Drone-based aerial mapping and surveying has evolved, over this first decade of adoption, to include a significant amount...

Saving Alcatraz (Digitally)

The infamous island is under attack by climate change, rising sea levels, and old age. Can scanning it from the sky and on the ground preserve it? When the first functional photogrammetry uncrewed aviation vehicles (UAVs) became mainstream technology around 2013, geodesists and land surveyors around the world adopted these flying wonders as an innovative...