As most of you are aware, the United States has one of the world’s most restrictive policies for the operation of unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Rather than partition UAS into various categories based on the potential hazards to the National Air Space (NAS) and to persons/property, the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has decided that government…
As we stand up our new small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) software and services subsidiary, we are exploring a wide range of technologies. So far, we have more questions than we have answers. We thought we would simply list some of these to give you an idea of our focus. We would be extremely interested…
As discussed in our February issue of GeoCue Group News, we have launched a new subsidiary company. This company is “AirGon, LLC.” We have not yet finalized the logo or type styling but the LLC is officially formed! AirGon will focus on the small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) business, particularly from a metric point of…
This is the third installment in our series on the new Point Cloud Task (PCT) mechanisms introduced in LP360 version 2013.2 released in December of 2013. We have previously discussed the new Input/Output Manager (IOM) and the Conflate tool. We now will cover the Volumetric Analysis tools. First of all, allow me to mention that…
Martin Flood (GeoCue Canada) and I visited the Oho/Indiana UAS Center and Test Complex in Springfield, Ohio this past week. We were invited by Mr. Fred Judson of the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) to give a presentation at a small technical exchange meeting devoted to the topics of the legal framework for sUAS, mission…
I recently moved up to a new engineering laptop computer (the new Dell M3800). This is a typical engineering grade laptop with high resolution display, NVidia graphics and GPU, 8 core processor and so forth. This system shipped from Dell with Windows 7 Professional Operating System (OS) rather than Windows 8.1. I found that rather…
In the January issue of GeoCue News, we discussed the new Point Cloud Task (PCT) overhaul that we released in LP360 2013.2. The focus of the last article was on the new Input/Output Manager (IOM) for setting the inputs and outputs of the various PCTs that LP360 provides. In this month’s article I will describe…
As you read this, we are releasing LP360 2013.2, our second major release of LP360 for calendar year 2013 (yes, yes- I know it is 2014 already!). One of the main developments for this release has been extensive improvements to the Point Cloud Task (PCT) subsystem of LP360. The PCT system is a framework for…
Did you know that Base Maps are available in ArcMap 10.1 and 10.2? You can use this feature to display a backdrop image or road map, providing context for LIDAR data processing (see Figure 1). This is a coal pile area at the Tennessee Valley Authorities’ (TVA) Widows Creek fossil fuel generation facility near Stevenson,…
We have just posted a new Experimental (EXP) release of LP360. These experimental releases give customers an opportunity to take advantage of (and yes, test!) new features of LP360 prior to the official block releases. We generally plan on two block releases per year (as in 2013.1 and 2013.2) and EXP releases when we have…
