Global engineering services provider Wood has adopted the Delair UX11 high-performance UAV for its work in site planning and asset management in mining and quarry projects in the western U.S.

Delair launched its aerial intelligence platform delair.ai, a cloud-based solution that introduces new levels of efficiency for UAV workflows and integrates industry-optimized analytics.

Unmanned Vehicle Systems for Geomatics – Towards Robotic Mapping provides a systematic and comprehensive approach for the use of small mobile unmanned systems for robotic geomatics research and applications.

The Aeromao Aeromapper Talon Amphibious is a fixed wing UAV system that can be used for inspection and mapping in marine environments.

Traditionally, checking work on a project as it progressed entailed constant face-to-face communication with subcontractors, manually walking the site and measuring the work against drawings. On this project, Skycatch drone surveys replace this workflow with highly accurate 2D maps and 3D models.

Oregon construction crews, biologists, geologists, roadway designers and wetlands workers have gained precise digital as-constructed measurements for state projects using rugged GNSS tablets in the field.

To maintain high performance levels when handling large volumes of geospatial data, many service providers are turning to the cloud.

While the number of surveyors who use drones continues to grow, there are still a handful of questions that keep cropping up at almost every survey conference.