With rapid data access, new vehicles and tools that can go almost anywhere (e.g., such as unmanned aerial vehicles), and more efficient computing, we are witnessing an age of rapid response monitoring that addresses environmental and social problems as they develop.
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GIS Industry
Using UAVs to Map and Monitor Pipelines
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are currently being used to not only speed up the pipeline routing process but also to make it both safer and more economical.
GIS Industry
Drones and GIS: A Look at the Legal and Ethical Issues
The ethical and legal issues about gathering geographic data using drones can be divided into four main areas: regulations, privacy, safety, and noise.
GIS Data
Using Drones to Create Fast Orthorectified Maps
Computer scientist Mark Pritt, along with colleagues at Lockheed Martin in Gaithersburg, Maryland, developed a new algorithm to handle thousands of images and speed up the process of creating an orthorectified map from UAV aerial imagery.
Spatial Analysis
Using Unmanned Aircraft to Help Map Threatened Plant Species
There has been a lot of news lately about where unmanned aerial systems (UAS or UAV for unmanned aerial vehicle) can’t fly in the United States. Despite the negative attention, unmanned aircraft have many beneficial uses, for example, in the remote sensing of archaeological sites. Geography researchers at Central Michigan University […]