GPS World, February 2019
PNT EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Are drones UAVs a disruptive or constructive technology for high precision mapping that yields practical actionable results for the end user customer Tony Agresta Nearmap Miguel Amor Hexagon Positioning Intelligence Thibault Bonnevie SBG Systems Alison Brown NAVSYS Corporation Ismael Colomina GeoNumerics Clem Driscoll C J Driscoll Associates John Fischer Orolia Ellen Hall Spirent Federal Systems Jules McNeff Overlook Systems Technologies Inc Terry Moore University of Nottingham Bradford W Parkinson Stanford Center for Position Navigation and Time Jean Marie Sleewaegen Septentrio Michael Swiek GPS Alliance Julian Thomas Racelogic Ltd Greg Turetzky Consultant Drones have dramatically reshaped the surveying and mapping industry Combined with reliable positioning and recent advancements in high resolution cameras photogrammetry and computer vision drones now enable high accuracy mapping faster and at much lower cost than conventional mapping techniques Drones can be constructive augmentations to highprecision map products because of their ready access to diverse locations Drone imagery can document real time physical changes that affect mapping applications during natural disasters or other events but images alone arent maps without a geo referenced grid such as the U S National Grid More constructive than disruptive Drone mapping is opening new markets that to a large extent were not serviceable by conventional manned flights On the other hand the profound changes and crisis in the mapping business were not produced by drones FEBRUARY 2019 WWW GPSWORLD COM GPS WORLD 13
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