In November, 2019, the U.S. Department of Interior made the decision to ground its 531-strong drone force, with the exception of drones being used for emergency purposes such as fighting wildfires and conducting search and rescue missions.

Our reliance and confidence in following the turn-by-turn directions of satellite navigation appears to be extinguishing our sense of location.

John Houston is not a surveyor. He’s not a heavy traveler, either. So what was he doing on a speck of an island in the South Atlantic Ocean, knee deep in brush and muck operating a high-accuracy GNSS receiver?

To say that GNSS has had a major impact on the growth enjoyed by the geospatial industry would be an understatement. There are literally billions of electronic devices used today that rely on the signals, and with better location information, many new applications are feasible such as self-driving cars and drone deliveries.

Categories like construction and BIM show stronger rise in software spending.

The value of digital geospatial information is recognized in many applications, and today it touches nearly every part of our lives.

To demonstrate the RTL-400’s capability in the area of precision agriculture, RedTail staff researched various agricultural flight options and hit on an idea: What better way to demonstrate the high-resolution, high-accuracy system than in one of the toughest challenges that could be found – a corn maze.

Land-use consultancy Dresdner Robin provided expert services on the future home of Jersey City’s first Whole Foods Market.

On most major urban projects, long before the first bucket of dirt has been scooped, the first pile driven, even the first property corner verified, work, in the form of pre-construction survey and monitoring, has already been set in place.

At times, the geospatial world sounds like it is “throwback Thursday.”