Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are something of a Swiss Army knife for the surveying and mapping communities. Commercial applications continue to grow, with UAVS — known as drones in the vernacular — gathering data and observations for agriculture, mining, utility…
Hitec Commercial Solutions LLC has acquired Straight Up Imaging (SUI). Hitec stated in a press release, “SUI’s experience in engineering and manufacturing small unmanned aircraft systems contributes perfectly with our expanding unmanned product platforms and progressive mapping and data acquisition…
If you’ve registered a commercial drone, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) wants to hear from you. On June 19, the FAA sent a questionnaire to everyone who has registered a commercial drone – more formally, an unmanned aircraft system…
The Commercial Dispatch Mapping Friendship CemeteryThe Commercial DispatchJenny Leblanc, who studies geographic information systems, is spending her summer combing through thousands of graves in Columbus' historic Friendship Cemetery, determining the GPS coordinates of each plot and searching for the history…
The Commercial Dispatch Mapping Friendship CemeteryThe Commercial DispatchJenny Leblanc, who studies geographic information systems, is spending her summer combing through thousands of graves in Columbus' historic Friendship Cemetery, determining the GPS coordinates of each plot and searching for the history…
