When the Merrick-Surdex Joint Venture (JV) saw the call for proposals for a US government 3DEP survey to deliver classified point clouds and…
Tag: Airborne
Watching the Great Lakes Shorelines
USACE National Coastal Mapping Program provides critical, repeat-mapping data to address regional monitoring needs
Record high water levels in the Great Lakes of the United States increase shoreline erosion, reduce efficacy of natural shoreline protection, and threaten…
Energetic Data Acquisition in Florida
Updates from agencies on lidar collections
The spring 2021 FL-ASPRS/UF Lidar Workshop was held remotely on 17 June 2021 and attended by 140 participants. While the majority were from…
We Need New Lidar Testing Criteria
I have been in the business long enough to watch lidar point density go from single-line profilers with perhaps a point every few…
Esri Imagery Summit in Redlands
Lidar and SAR offerings blossom
For some years, Esri has run an Imagery Summit over the weekend prior to the International User Conference in San Diego. This attractive…
Viva Las Vegas!
Commercial UAV Expo effervesces f2f
Diversified Communications is the very model of a modern conference company, but even its most experienced managers must have harbored slivers of doubt…
Aero-Graphics Contracted by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to Provide Nationwide Geospatial Services
Salt Lake City, UT (August 19, 2021) — Aero-Graphics has signed a five-year, multimillion-dollar Geospatial Product and Services Contract (GPSC) with the U.S….
Accuracy Assessment of the Microdrones mdLiDAR3000DL
Testing sUAS-lidar system for large-scale mapping
Note: See the PDF for more graphics Lidar systems based on small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) are rapidly advancing. This research investigates a Microdrones…
Transitioning Back
Ample Opportunities from ISPRS and ASPRS
A year ago, I was writing about the high quality of online material, both remote events and commercial webinars, enabling us to remain…
Lidar Data Processing Made Easy
Microdrones’ mdInfinity transforms raw data into powerful results
Plan, fly, process, visualize. These four steps of the drone surveying workflow from Microdrones have guided professionals in fields like surveying, construction, and…