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August 2019
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
INDUSTRY
NEWS
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dewberry
, a privately held professional services firm,
announced that Mark Safran, CP, GISP; Mike Sutherland;
and Al Karlin, Ph.D., CMS-L, GISP have joined the firm’s
geospatial and technology services (GTS) group.
Mark Safran is an associate vice president and senior
program manager based in Fairfax, and has more than 30
years of experience in program management and business
development with a focus on spatial technologies. In his new
role, he is responsible for the oversight of major GTS programs.
He serves on the council of the American Geographical Society
and is also a member of the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence
Foundation (USGIF), American Society of Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), Management Association
of Private Photogrammetric Surveyors, National States
Geographic Information Council (NSGIC), and past president
of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Urban and
Regional Information Systems Association (URISA).
Senior Geospatial Analyst Mike Sutherland, based in
Denver, has 10 years of experience and most recently worked
for the Cooperative Institute for Research and Environmental
Sciences (CIRES) for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) at the University of Colorado Boulder.
As a senior geospatial analyst at Dewberry, Sutherland is
responsible for quality control of lidar projects, coastal and
topobathymetric domain staff training, and data processing
workflow development and refinement. Sutherland is a
member of ASPRS.
Based in Tampa, Senior GIS Professional Dr. Alvan Karlin
brings with him more than 20 years of experience in the
geospatial and remote sensing industry, where he recently
worked as a senior GIS scientist for the Southwest Florida
Water Management District. He has published numerous
research articles and presented at conferences globally, and
is an adjunct professor of biology at the University of Tampa.
Karlin is actively involved in the Florida statewide lidar
mapping project, which covers more than 32,000 square miles
of ground. Karlin has been an active member of ASPRS for
more than 25 years and has served on various committees
during his time. He has also participated on various GIS
Certification Institute committees.
“We are thrilled to welcome Mark, Mike, and Al to our
geospatial team,” states Dewberry Vice President and Director
of Remote Sensing Amar Nayegandhi, CP, CMS, GISP. “They
each have a strong background in geospatial technologies, which
will directly serve our clients by providing the best possible
technical and management expertise to support their needs.”
GeoCue Group Inc
. unveiled its new True View™ line
of drone sensors at an invitation only industry event on
June 25th in Nashville, Tennessee. True View sensors offer
surveyors an innovative lidar + dual oblique mapping camera
configuration integrated in a single lightweight payload for
use on commercial drone platforms. True View allows for fast,
easy automated generation of true 3D colorized point clouds,
oblique imagery and orthophotos from a single flight.
The first sensor of the product line, the True View 410, was
displayed at the reveal along with full workflow processing in
the companion True View Evo processing software. The True
View 410 is the industry’s first integrated LIDAR/camera
fusion platform designed from the ground up to generate
high accuracy 3D colorized LIDAR point clouds. Featuring
dual GeoCue Mapping Cameras, a Quanergy M8 Ultra laser
scanner and Applanix Position and Orientation System (POS),
the result is a true 3D imaging sensor. With its wide 120°
fused field of view, the True View 410 provides high efficiency
3D color mapping with vegetation penetration in a payload
package with a mass of about 2 kg.
Demonstrations of True ViewEvo full post-processingworkflow
software (included with the sensor) were provided. The audience
witnessed the creation of stunning 3D colorized point clouds
with processing time from sensor to final product of less than 15
minutes for a 50-acre site. The visualization of colorized vertical
surfaces demonstrated the value of the dual oblique cameras and
true 3D mapping of LIDAR points to images.
Contact GeoCue at 1-256-461-8289 or
for
detailed system information.
SPECTRAL EVOLUTION
has moved operations to
expanded facilities in Haverhill, Massachusetts. “This move
provides us with an expanded space to meet our growing
business requirements and allow us to service customers more
effectively,” said Dennis Witz, Spectral Evolution’s President.
The new facility is conveniently located near Interstate I-495
highway. The telephone and fax numbers remain the same.
Our new address is Spectral Evolution, 26 Parkridge Road,
Suite 104, Haverhill, MA, 01835, Tel: 978-687-1833, Fax: 978-
945-0372.
CALENDAR
• 17-18 September,
GIS IN THE ROCKIES
, Denver,
Colorado. For more information, visit http://
gisintherockies.org.
• 18-20,
NCAUG Conference
, Wilmington, North
Carolina. For more information, visit
conference.
• 23-26 September,
2019 JACIE/ECCOE Workshop
,
Reston, Virginia. For more information, visit https://
workshop.
• 28 September – 2 October,
GIS-PRO 2019
, New Orleans,
Louisiana. For more information, visit
/
gispro2019.
