Kirt Ejesiak wasn’t very impressed with his first drone, purchased to take aerial photos of houses listed with his Property Guys real estate franchise in Iqaluit, Nunavut. But when a friend asked him to fly the drone over his roof to look for a leak, Mr. Ejesiak started thinking about other uses for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).
Category Archives: Geology
Silent Falcon Completes Oil and Gas UAS Inspection in New Mexico
Silent Falcon UAS Technologies has announced that the solar electric Silent Falcon Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) successfully performed flights to demonstrate the effectiveness of using the Silent Falcon to inspect and monitor oil and gas production and distribution assets. Continue reading
ScanEagle in Natural Gas BVLOS Operations
Insitu Pacific has announced that after 18 months of successful trials, natural gas company Queensland Gas Company (QGC), a Shell-owned business, is introducing the ScanEagle Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) to inspect gas wells, pipelines and processing facilities.
GeoFIT Americas Adopts SimActive’s Correlator3D
SimActive Inc., a developer of photogrammetry software, has announced the purchase of its Correlator3D software by GeoFIT Americas, a subsidiary of Groupe FIT. The software is used for image processing from UAVs in sizeable mapping projects. Continue reading
USGS to use UAS to Map Cape Cod National Seashore
A federal effort to produce better maps more quickly and cheaply with drone technology got a test run recently at Coast Guard Beach, Cape Cod.
Woolpert Selects Kespry Systems for Surveying
Kespry Inc., which designs automated drone systems for commercial use, has announced that it has been selected by Woolpert to provide commercial drone systems to support the company’s site surveying and mapping needs.
Drones Help Predict Next Volcanic Eruption
Scientists in Iceland are turning to new technologies to help them predict the next major volcanic eruption there. Katla is one of the country’s most active and dangerous volcanoes, covered by the Mýrdalsjökull glacier. Researchers are watching it very closely because it has the potential to be more damaging than the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which brought Europe to a standstill in 2010. Continue reading
Three Miles High: Drones Study High-Altitude Glaciers
About 5,000 meters high in the Peruvian Andes, scientists are mapping glaciers and wetlands in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range with 10-centimeter precision to gauge how climate change will affect the half-million local residents who rely in part on those glaciers for their water supply. Continue reading