Your project size now exceeds 4 km² or 10 km²

The LP360 sUAS license level limits the project size to 4 km². The LP360 EVO, EVO 3DIS, and LP360 Drone license levels limit the project size to 10 km². If LP360 determines the project size exceeds this limitation, this informational dialog, “Your project size now exceeds 4 km², causing sUAS to enter LP360 Viewer mode”…

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Mid-Pulse Blues

We have been doing a lot of experimenting with various airplane and camera configurations for small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS). We are very interested in the effect of camera quality on metric analysis. For example, does a better lens yield a more accurate surface model when extracting a dense image matching point cloud using an…

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Getting Under Control!

An important aspect of planning and executing a small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) mapping project is planning and collecting ground control and check points. We are a software and systems company, not a services company so we have limited tools (and knowledge, for that matter) for carrying out this part of a mission. Nevertheless, we…

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The Genie is out of the bottle

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…

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Questions, Questions

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…

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