GPS World, September 2018

LAUNCHPAD SURVEY MAPPING 1 UPDATED SOFTWARE FOR SURVEYING WITH DRONES Version 6 of Virtual Surveyor drone surveying software offers a faster more efficient workflow and better user experience in a more stable platform than previous versions Along with new capabilities is an improved licensing system and an extended free application The software generates an interactive onscreen environment through orthophotos and digital surface models generated from a UAV where the surveyor selects survey points and breaklines to define the topography It enables land surveyors to complement traditional fieldwork with UAV imagery to generate highly accurate topographic products Virtual Surveyor www virtual surveyor com 2 FORESTRY PLATFORM OFFERS GEOSPATIAL ANALYTICS Foresights is a risk management and geospatial analytics platform designed to help clients manage forestry assets quickly effectively and accurately Foresights identifies areas of new or potential risk and delivers operations tracking and forest damage management services It combines satellite imagery topography maps soil maps meteorological data and near realtime ground input from operational teams to deliver optimized insights It can detect damage as small as 01 hectare 025 acre from pests disease and drought PlanetWatchers planetwatchers com 3 CLOUD ECOSYSTEM INTEGRATES FOUR EOS PRODUCTS EOS Platform provides a powerful toolset for geospatial analysts offering search analysis storing and visualization of large amounts of geospatial data Image data obtained from LandViewer or uploaded from a users computer is stored in cloud based EOS Storage and is instantly available for remote sensing analysis or image processing EOS Processing offers 16 workflows that run online including raster tools remote sensing analytics photogrammetry and proprietary feature extraction algorithms designed by EOS engineers and data scientists to address the main challenges of agriculture forestry oil gas retail city planning defense and other industries Earth Observing System eos com 4 SURFACE WATER BOOK HIGHLIGHTS ANALYSIS OF DATA SETS The Esri book GIS for Surface Water Using the National Hydrography Dataset by Jeff Simley details how to use geographic information system GIS technology to visualize and analyze data sets Simley 18 GPS WORLD WWW GPSWORLD COM SEPTEMBER 2018 is an award winning cartographer and the former lead of the hydrography program at the United States Geological Survey USGS The book examines the complexities of surface water systems and shows readers how to use the Esri ArcGIS software with government water data sets to better study and manage the United States vast water system Esri www esri com 5 BATHYMETRY STORE SPECIALIZES IN ONLINE SHALLOW WATER DATA EOMAP has opened a commercial online store for global shallow water bathymetry derived from satellite data At the store EOStore Bathymetry customers can search for and request high quality data Satellite derived bathymetry SDB is a valuable tool for the surveying planning and management of coastal and offshore sites SDB can provide shallow water bathymetric data worldwide without the need for a physical presence in the area of interest EOMAP developed the bathymetry store in response to industry feedback EOStore Bathymetry offers different horizontal spatial resolutions of the bathymetric grid of 2 to 15 meters making the data suitable for surveying as well as planning and modeling purposes EOMAP www eomap com 1 4 2 3