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Commercial UAV Expo 2019
A Commercial Conference Highlighting Education At Commercial UAV Expo, nearly 200 companies descended upon Las Vegas to showcase their wares. Products varied from new UAS models to sensors to software, and everything in-between, including at UAS blimp. Though...
2019 ATE PI Conference: A Student Perspective
A Student Perspective Quinlan Smith, Isaac Hernandez, Diana Perez, Wing Cheung At this year’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Principal Investigator (PI) Conference, held in Washington DC from October 23 – 25, 2019, the UASTEP program and the National GeoTech...
ATE PI Conference 2019
Helping veterans transition into unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and geospatial technologies (GST) education programs At this year’s National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education Principal Investigator conference in Washington D.C., I attended a...
A first look at drone data processing tools in ArcGIS Pro
At this year’s Esri User Conference, I learned about Esri’s Ortho-mapping tools which I was very excited to hear about prior to the conference. One of the burning questions I had is how do these tools match up against the myriad of drone data processing...
Get more than DEM from the USGS!
The US Geological Survey (USGS) has been a long-time provider of geospatial data, many of you may have used the National Map Seamless Sever to download USGS data in the past, which has since been succeed by the National Map Viewer...
ATE PI Conference 2018
This was the 25th National ATE Principal Investigators’ Conference hosted by the American Association of Community Colleges with support from the National Science Foundation. But for me, it was my rookie outing, so I was treading on uncharted territory and...
Commercial UAV Expo 2018
The Commercial UAV Expo is targeted towards the use of drone technology in industry sectors such as construction and inspection, conservation and agriculture, energy and utilities, public safety and search and rescue as well as mapping and surveying among...
Want to Offer Surveying and Mapping Services as a Drone Operator?
Want to Offer Surveying and Mapping Services as a Drone Operator? You have a drone or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). You have your Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate. You know how to fly your drone and capture unbelievably high-resolution drone videos...
Visit our roundtable at Commercial UAV Expo 2018
Our principal investigator, Professor Wing Cheung along with our co-principal investigator, Ken Yanow are moderating a roundtable at Commercial UAV Expo. If you're an educator, you should attend. “As more legislators and college administrators realize the need to...
Tidbits from the ESRI Conference 2018
sUAS Makes Data Access and Presentation Easier Than Ever It was a week before Comic-con and the San Diego Convention Center was packed. There were even superheroes: Mapman and Mapgirl. Over 18,000 people from across the globe gathered for the annual ESRI...