Category: Conference Interviews
Adapting Thermal Sensors for the Small-UAS Market
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The V1 Video team spoke to Bruce Cumming, marketing director for emerging products at FLIR Systems, about the company’s legacy of thermal infrared imaging and its use on unmanned aircraft systems. Thermography has been used in commercial workflows for building inspection, oil and gas, electric utilities, solar energy, and more. The flexibility of UAS aerial platforms has the potential to greatly expand accessibility to thermographic insight.
Building Drones for Construction, Surveying and Mining Applications
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The V1 Video team spoke to Paul Doersch, founder and CEO of Kespry. We talked about his company’s workflows specific to automating the collection of aerial survey information, including the measurement of aggregate stockpiles and mining resources.
Getting Accurate Results Quickly and Cheaply with Unmanned Aircraft
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The V1 Video team spoke to Christopher Thompson, the sales manager for senseFly, the manufacturers of fixed-wing and rotary unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) for mapping. We talked about the broad range of applications and some interesting case studies. We also touched on the inspection capabilities of their new eXom rotary platform.
Trimble Expands UAS Fleet with Multirotor and High-Precision Systems
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The V1 Video team spoke to Todd Steiner, product marketing director for Trimble’s geospatial imaging and optics products (including UAVs). We talked about the new Trimble ZX5 multirotor system, which is complementary to the fixed-wing UAVs. Their new Trimble UX5-HP introduces a high-precision RTK system with reduced need for ground control.
PrecisionHawk Making a Marketplace for UAS Data Management and Analysis
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The V1 Video team spoke with Thomas Haun, vice president of strategy and globalization at PrecisionHawk, at the recent Commercial UAV Expo. PrecisionHawk has developed a fixed-wing UAS as well as an online data management and analysis platform to help data collectors provide insight. We talked about the agriculture market, the flexibility of using different sensor payloads and acting on information.
Using Drones to Provide Insight for Disaster Recovery
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The V1 Video team spoke to Patrick Meier at the Commercial UAV Expo. Meier is a thought leader on humanitarian technology and innovation as well as founder of the Humanitarian UAV Network (UAViators), which has worked in the Philippines to help in the recovery of Cyclone Pam and in Nepal for response to the recent earthquake. We talked about the growing utility of UAVs as well as the use of automation and crowdsourcing to reduce the time and burden of analysis.
Charting the Intersection of Remote Sensing, GIS and Data Science
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The V1 Video team interviewed Stuart Blundell, director of business development and strategy for Harris Geospatial Solutions, at the company’s ENVI Analytics Symposium in Boulder, Colo. The interview touched on the company’s analytical toolset, the need and opportunity to grow the market for advanced analytics, and the extension of their toolset to the cloud.
Geospatial as an Integral Part of Information Management
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The V1 Video team interviewed Fred C. Collins, Ph.D., Distinguished Engineer and Bluemix Evangelist at IBM, at the ENVI Analytics Symposium in Boulder, Colo. Bluemix is the company’s platform-as-a-service that supports geospatial as a key component of the architecture. We spoke about the growing awareness and reliance on geospatial capabilities for data management and analysis, and the flexibility of the Bluemix cloud-based tools that can be extended with hundreds of services.
Airbus Defense and Space Dealing with Big Data Management and Delivery Issues
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The V1 Video team interviewed Jessi Dick, Senior Marketing Manager of Online and Software Partnerships at Airbus Defence and Space, at the 2015 Esri User Conference in San Diego. We spoke about the growing volumes of data and the company’s tools managing data via portals, systems, streaming services and custom solutions.
Data Enablement for Better Decision Making
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The V1 Video team interviewed Don Murray, Co-Founder and President of Safe Software, at the 2015 Esri User Conference in San Diego. We spoke about transforming geospatial data into different formats such as Minecraft for greater community engagement as well as combining buildings and GIS data for greater context. Safe Software is all about data, allowing for analysis, processing, storing and integrating data for better decision making.
