Lead Air, manufacturer of Track’Air aerial survey products, has announced the availability of one of its newest products, the MIDAR-H. The MIDAR-H is a newly designed aerial platform for concurrent capture...

DroneMetrex recently demonstrated its UAV photogrammetric mapping system TopoDrone-100 to international visitors at the Smart Geospatial Expo, an international event featuring the newest and most advanced trends in the global...

Tetracam and Pix4D have jointly announced a global alliance that combines the technological strengths of both companies to improve farming by means of airborne remote sensing. The alliance is only...

Lehmann Aviation, manufacturer of professional micro civil drones, has announced a new aerial solution for geo-referenced orthomosaics and DEM: the LA300 fully automatic personal drone which is now working with...

Australia-based DroneMetrex has reliably and repeatedly maps at unprecedented 25mm absolute topographic accuracy in height via its in-house developed TopoDrones. So far, no other manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)...

Orbit GeoSpatial Technologies, Belgium, has announced the availability of its completely re-engineered UAS mapping software solution. Peter Bonne, vice-president business development and senior product manager at Orbit GT, described the...

DroneMetrex has announced the successful completion of a high-precision railway mapping project in Australia. The company’s TopoDrone-100, which was developed in-house, flew over a crossing intersection of a railway and...

The effective seakeeping performance of any watercraft is vital for safe navigation. Due to the long maritime tradition in Greece, the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) has been a...

NovAtel, headquartered in Canada, has added a single-enclosure SPAN MEMS receiver to its line of SPAN GNSS/INS products. Available in the first quarter of 2013, the low power, lightweight SPAN...

My Endpoint column in the February 2011 issue touched upon general characteristics of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). Here, I focus on low-weight, low-altitude and the built environment. Low-weight UAVs are...