Altavian, Inc., a U.S. based Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) engineering and manufacturing firm, today announces the award of a $250MM Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity contract with the US Army. Under the Program Executive Office Aviation, Products Office for Tactical Unmanned Aircraft (TUAS), Altavian will be supporting the largest small UAS program in the world. The US Army Family of Systems, […]
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Lokeren, Belgium, October 23 rd , 2017 Orbit GT is to launch the new 3DM Feature Extraction product at the Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas, NV, USA. “With our new portfolio, we are reaching out to UAV Mapping professionals more than ever before”, says Peter Bonne, CEO of Orbit GT. “As version 18 bundles all the expertise and technology […]
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Operating a small UAS beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) is something that makes a lot of sense for applications such as…Read More at In The Scan
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Using Global Mapper to Analyze Stream Morphology for Erosion Control LIDARUSA, an Alabama-based leader in the fields of geomatics and mapping, employs a variety of airborne and terrestrial data collection and processing technologies to provide clients with accurate terrain models and volumetric measurements. The stream study project, which was spread across several non-contiguous areas in Western Tennessee, initially required the […]
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Puts everything into 3D world which provides more robust measurements of assets When the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released the highly anticipated rules governing the operation of small UAS (sUAS) for commercial purposes, everything changed for drone and sensor manufacturers, aerial data service providers and forward thinking, innovative businesses. Scheduled to take effect by the end of August, the most […]
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FAA Section 333 exemptions allow operators to fly drones in the national airspace for commercial purposes. We were excited in May 2015 after receiving ours. At last we could use this new technology to expand our remote sensing and mapping operations. We were primed for starting a new profitable business doing amazing things flying drones. On the surface the approval to fly “commercially” sounded great. […]
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Lokeren, Belgium, March 29th, 2016. Orbit GT releases the 11.2.4 update for several products from its Mobile Mapping portfolio. “We’re pleased to announce new versions for our successful Mobile Mapping Feature Extraction portfolio”, says Peter Bonne, CEO of Orbit GT. “A couple of leading solutions have been upgraded with new tools, core improvements and fixes.” The following solutions are updated […]
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Matching the GNSS solution to the project continues to be an issue. In the previous article we looked at projects that were widely varying in requirements. First we reviewed the most general case requiring positioning to only a meter or more. Next we saw how an RTK system may be an appropriate solution for UAVs with the LOS restriction and […]
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