Oblique Imagery for a Multitude of Applications
ASI’s Snyp’Air oblique imagery system offers high-resolution metric camera imagery coupled with geotagged 4K video and automated feature targeting capabilities, making it an excellent tool for utility corridor asset mapping and monitoring as well as many other applications.
The Race to Now – Maximizing Crop Yields Using Innovations in Remote Sensing
Precision agriculture substitutes information and knowledge for physical inputs of fertilizers, pesticides, and other treatments. It is a philosophy and system of crop management that has become an important development in modern agriculture. Critical economic, scientific and environmental factors justify these methods which are designed to maximize crop productivity, profitability, and environmental sustainability. Modern remote […]
Earth on Demand Web Services
Earth On Demand Web Services™ is a cloud based geospatial streaming solution that supports Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) streaming services and is compatible with all OGC supported software and APIs.
LiDAR Use | Wind Turbine Industry
Although most of LiDAR news we read today has to do with aerial LiDAR and mapping of the Earth’s surface, mobile LiDAR has been used to map millions of road miles but also to map inside mine shafts, dams and other man-made features.
Glossary of Cyber Security Terms
Editor’s Note: the 3-part article on Personal Internet Security for Geospatial Professionals originally (2017) referenced this glossary. Adware What it means: Adware is an annoying form of malware that bombards you with ads when you go online, or use certain programs on your device. Why it matters: Mostly, adware is just a nuisance. However, certain forms […]
ASI Wins MAPPS Excellence Award for Fourth Time
[spb_boxed_content type=”coloured” box_link_target=”_self” padding_vertical=”0″ padding_horizontal=”0″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] MAPPS kicked off the year in January by hosting their annual winter meetings, this year in beautiful and warm Hawaii. During the meetings the winners of the Geospatial Excellence Awards were announced. Aerial Services, Inc. won the MAPPS Geospatial Excellence Award for the fourth time. The submission, […]
WebGL
You may have not heard of WebGL (Web Graphics Library) before but I bet you have used it. I remember first experiencing it back in 2010 while playing with Chrome Experiments which featured a variety of unique projects that were educational and artistic …
Implications of Drones on American Privacy and Freedom
Drones have grown up in the theater of war over the last 20 years being used primarily to “kill” and “spy”. As this technology is unleashed in our neighborhoods and businesses for “work” and “play”, citizens will have to sort out which applications are threatening and which are not.
Principles of Remote Sensing and Mapping Using Drones
As with any new technology while in the “wild west” stage of development, unfounded, erroneous assumptions are made by practitioners about the positional accuracy of their mapping products.
