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August 2016
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
INDUSTRY
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Keystone Aerial Surveys, Inc. optimizes efficiency with
Optech Galaxy —
Teledyne Optech is pleased to announce
that Keystone Aerial Surveys, Inc. has accepted delivery of the
Optech Galaxy.
As a provider of millions of miles of high-quality lidar and
photogrammetric products, Keystone will make full use of
the Galaxy’s efficiency-enhancing technologies. The Galaxy’s
SwathTRAK™ technology will improve Keystone’s collection
efficiency by keeping the swath width and point density
consistent even when flying over mountains or valleys. In all
regions, Keystone will improve productivity with the Galaxy’s
550-kHz measurement rate, letting them collect dense data at
high aircraft speeds.
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and
welcomed more than a dozen new staff members
this month to form its Air Force Enterprise GeoBase Team,
which will support a $4.7 million contract to provide geospa-
tial services to five major commands. These include Air Com-
bat Command (ACC), Air Education and Training Command
(AETC), Air Force District of Washington (AFDW), Air Force
Special Operations Command (AFSOC) and Air Force Space
Command (AFSPC).
The contract will be administered through AFSOC, with
funding from the Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC). It
is a one-year contract, with the possibility of extension.
With the addition of this new contract to Woolpert’s existing
GeoBase portfolio, which includes Air ForceMateriel Command
(AFMC), Woolpert now provides enterprise geospatial
services to more than two-thirds of the U.S. Air Force (USAF)
installations across the country.
The project will support consistent, cost-effective geospatial
information across multiple installations within each
command. The aim of the GeoBase concept is to achieve
economies of scale through a “one installation, one map” plan.
Also joining the Woolpert team is Dr. Brian Cullis, a retired
USAF colonel, who will ensure Woolpert continues to provide
enterprise solutions in line with AFCEC’s mission.
Cullis has advocated for enterprise-wide geospatial
information programs for the military since the 1990s, and his
dissertation initiated the GeoBase concept.
PRODUCTS
The UDS-1100 uses a single 512-element photodiode array to
cover the 320-1100nm spectral range. It can be configured with
a 4° lens or a 25° fiber for the downward facing optic. Energy
enters the spectrometer through the top and bottom entrance
optics via a switching fiber optic. Electronic shutters control
the sampling of each foreoptic’s incident illumination in turn.
The system’s internal control board handles data acquisition,
dark current removal and the communications interface with
a host PC.
The UDS-1100 is controlled by Spectral Evolution’s
DARWin SP Data Acquisition software. The user can adjust
parameters and collect scans. The UDS-1100 handle all the
details of simultaneous measuring - select your settings and
start scanning!
With the UDS-1100SA model, the instrument can be set-up
for standalone operation. In this mode, the system includes a
re-chargeable lithium-ion battery that can scan continuously
for up to 24 hours. For applications with longer scanning
needs the UDS-1100SA can connect to different power sources,
for example a 12V car or marine battery, or a solar powered
battery. The UDS-1100SA can store up to 800 combined
upwelling/downwelling scans before offloading to a PC.
Operator controlled parameters include the number of scans
and scanning intervals.
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is pleased to announce that it presented
the latest lidar and imaging solutions at the Esri 2016 User
Conference.
The
, an airborne collection system that can
reduced surveying costs by eliminating the need for an in-air
operator. Instead, the pilot can turn on the Eclipse’s eye-safe
lidar and digital metric camera with a single button. This
unique approach lowers the bar to collecting geo-referenced
point clouds and imagery with Teledyne Optech’s industry-
leading accuracy and precision.
Visitors also learnd how to bridge the gap between water
and land with the multispectral
airborne lidar,
which provides depth information at >15 pts/m2 for high-
resolution mapping of complex water bodies, and captures
3D multispectral data day or night for improved target
classification. Those interested in dedicated land surveying
learned about the
, which improves efficiency by
up to 40% in rugged terrain by using its unique SwathTRAK™
technology to maintain a constant swath width on the ground.
GIS professionals also learned about several new and
upcoming product advances in ground-based lidar systems.
The
now comes in three models, from the
economical mapping-grade Lynx MG to the mid-range Lynx
SG-S, and the high-powered Lynx SG. Teledyne Optech
has recently upgraded the SG-S and SG with industry-
leading scanner technology that creates 300 to 600 lines/sec
respectively, resulting in evenly spaced point cloud data even
when surveying at highway speeds.
All of these products are joined together by the
a highly automated workflow that co-processes lidar and
camera data to maximize their accuracy, converts data to the
desired reference frame using the Blue Marble GeoCalc SDK,
and outputs data for direct ingestion by popular third-party
software tools.
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