Tellus4D Geoimaging is an Australian company that uses survey UAVs to collect land and shallow water imagery. Waypoint recently sat down with Tellus4D’s CEO, Dr. Geoffrey Gearheart, to learn more about his company, how he uses survey UAVs, such as senseFly’s eBee Plus fixed-wing drone, to capture all this data…
How do two of the world’s most cutting-edge surveying instruments stack up against each other? Are there obvious benefits to choosing one over the other? A new whitepaper from survey company Lerch Weber AG seeks to answer those questions and more. Earlier this year, Armin Weber and Thomas Lerch, co-owners…
Who doesn’t love a good 3D model? Simple to explore with the click of a mouse, these 360-degree overviews can provide professionals with a better understanding of an area or structure of interest—in an instant—not to mention, they’re just great to look at. On Sketchfab.com—the world’s largest platform for publishing,…
OCEALIA Group is a pioneering French farming cooperative. Since 2015 it has employed senseFly agriculture drones and AIRINOV’s agronomy expertise to more accurately assess and treat over 300 of its members’ crops. The result: a 10% average increase in crop yields. In our latest senseFly case study, we talk in-depth with OCEALIA and…
Now available to read/download, senseFly’s latest case study details how transportation-engineering firm, J.L. Patterson & Associates, Inc. (JLP) surveyed a 30-mile rail corridor using an eBee RTK. The result: “Phenomenal” data accuracy, the job completed in a quarter of the time terrestrial surveying would have taken, and at half the cost of using manned aerial…
When the Municipal District of Taber constructed a new shooting facility, it employed Ventus Geospatial to provide its survey data. Ventus’ eBee drone achieved low GSDs, remarkable vertical accuracy, and all more quickly than conventional surveying could achieve. Over the past three years, the Municipal District of Taber’s team has…
Today is the 46th Earth Day. So what better time to examine how drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are being used to safeguard our precious planet and its inhabitants. This April 22nd, on Earth Day 2016, we are celebrating the valuable role that drone technology has played, and is increasingly playing,…
Every year our design team creates an exclusive senseFly wall calendar featuring 12 unique images captured by our professional mapping drones. For the second shot in our 2016 series, we have a bird’s eye view of an alluring, turquoise-watered arctic beach. Located in Greenland’s Nuuk fiord region, this beach is home to…
Every year our design team creates an exclusive senseFly wall calendar, featuring 12 unique images that have been captured by our professional mapping drones. The first we’re sharing here on Waypoint is a foamy, luminescent beast of a shot. A strangely beautiful body of water. A lithium pool. Captured by the…