drone surveys

For drone survey teams working across sprawling mines, oil pipelines, and remote geological sites, one frustrating problem has lingered for years: breaking huge survey areas into manageable flight sections without creating alignment issues that can ruin data quality. Now, SPH Engineering says it has solved that challenge with the launch of UgCS 6.0, a major update to its popular enterprise drone flight planning platform.

The effects of drone technology have been sufficiently disruptive – or perhaps “threatening” is a better term – to legacy land surveying officials that a North Carolina aerial imaging and mapping service provider is now having to defend attacks on his activity with arguments it’s a form of free speech protected by the First Amendment.

Israeli startup Exodigo is announcing the commercial availability of its subsurface mapping platform in the US with a bang. The tech company has scooped up a cool $29 million in seed funding to make underground mapping easier with drones.