When creating maps of field crops, one goal is to estimate plant health or responses to management. To achieve consistent imagery, drone flights must account for lighting conditions. While discussions ...

A GPS-enabled platform can also use Raptor software as a backup in the event of a jammed signal, since it lives onboard the craft.

Weighing just 3.7 kg, it is ideally suited for operation from professional drones, eliminating the need for custom or prohibitively expensive equipment. Specifically designed for mapping shallow ...

To foster the Department’s digital mapping strategy, two new block courses for BSc to PhD students were introduced, “Application of Small Drones for Geological Data Acquisition” in 2018, and ...

The Florida Seafloor Mapping Initiative may be the solution. Saildrone explains in news releases that the “Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) is managing the project ...

Cambria County Geographic Information Systems director Steve Kocsis (right) explains the mapping ... for drone operations, various program data and imagery from the United States Geological ...

network to monitor geological hazards across Pengzhou, a mountainous district prone to landslides and wildfires. By late March this year, seven fixed-wing drone hangars and several multi-rotor ...