Working in point clouds is difficult for three main reasons. This article will help you avoid these common pitfalls and provide a few tips for successfully integrating point clouds into your drone surveying workflow.
Evolution of Aerotas Ground Control Points (GCPs)
Aerotas Data Processing Specifications
Aerotas Linework has been evolving quickly. Many of you have seen the incremental and iterative improvements, while others have requested a more detailed specification document. We built a comprehensive product guide that outlines what features are identified by default, how features are marked, and a list of our CAD layers.
More Drone Access to Controlled Airspace
Starting today (May 23, 2019) more than 100 additional control towers and airports will be added to LAANC.
The LAANC capability is increasing access for drone pilots into controlled airspace by expanding to 100+ federal contract towers, which means operators can access LAANC at nearly 600 airports! Check the list of airports covered by LAANC at https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/?newsId=93789
Cyber Security Risks with Drone Technology
Unlocking DJI No-fly Zones
DJI has a database that fences off areas where you may need authorization to fly and prevents their products from flying there altogether. This may seem like a nuisance, but it can actually protect you from flying into controlled airspace unknowingly at low altitudes, and in most cases, it’s fairly easy to unlock.
Aerotas at the APLS Conference
In May, 2019, Logan Campbell, founder and CEO of Aerotas, spoke at the APLS conference on how drones can help with land surveying.
The videos are embedded below, and the materials referenced in the video can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.
POB Guest Column: Drone Questions from Survey Conferences
Survey conferences from all over the country tend to cluster in the winter months. So, Aerotas bundles up and heads out into the cold to share lessons learned from processing thousands of drone survey projects. 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. In this article, we will answer the most common questions about drone surveying from this year’s conference season.
Announcing New Online Training Courses!
The New Aerotas Drone Surveying Checklist
The newest version of our checklist is smaller, laminated, and designed to always stay with your drone kit. The checklist will be used along side a paper companion flight log that is now longer so that it can record information about more of your flights. The old checklist was a single piece of paper that combined both the checklist and the flight log; you used a single checklist for each flight. Now, one checklist can be used across multiple flights, and the flight log can hold more information.