PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
April 2014
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ASPRS
NEWS
NEW SUSTAINING MEMBERS
ASPRS is proud to welcome the following new Sustaining Members.
More information on becoming a Sustaining Member is available at
Altavian
Apostolos Mamatas
1724 NW 2
nd
Street, Gainesville, FL 32606 (855) 325-8284
;
Member Since:
2/2014
Altavian manufactures the Nova family of small Unmanned
Aerial Systems (sUAS), built with the primary purpose of
meeting the challenging demands of the photogrammetry and
remote sensing communities. While the Nova payloads also
include low-cost non-metric, multispectral, and gimbaled ther-
mal IR + Full Motion Video (FMV), Altavian’s principle focus is
designing their systems on a solid foundation of photogrammet-
ric principles. The Altavian autonomous navigation system has
been customized and designed to dynamically adjust to weather
conditions, ensuring sufficient exposure overlap to create ortho-
mosaics without repeating a mission. The onboard dual-fre-
quency GPS/IMU available on the metric payload facilitates
faster post-processing times while also resulting in precisions
and accuracies achieved by few competing technologies. Our
metric payload acquires data at a native 14-bit spectral resolu-
tion allowing for faster and easier radiometric adjustments that
result in a nicely color balanced end data product.
Our focus is on providing the affordable economy of scale
required to acquire data for smaller-sized areas of interest,
normally not able to be acquired cost-effectively using tradi-
tional manned airborne systems. Additionally, our customers
are able to swap and configure their payloads effortlessly,
allowing them to conduct a precision agriculture remote
sensing project on one day while performing a 1cm orthoim-
agery project the next day, using the same aircraft. Whether
your mission is for precision agriculture, natural resource
assessments, or traditional aerial surveys, Altavian has all of
your bases covered.
Directions Magazine
1001 Green Bay Road, Ste.145, Winnetka, IL 60093
(847) 242-0412
Member Since:
2/2014
Directions Magazine is the leading source of geospatial
information technology, news and commentary for “all things
location.” We keep our readers informed with the latest
geospatial technology trends and issues through newslet-
ters, blogs, podcasts, industry Channels and webinars. Our
readers gain an “inside edge” by reading our publications and
attending our events. We maintain the industry’s largest and
most knowledgeable editorial and management team, each
member having substantial experience as a practitioners and
entrepreneurs of geospatial technology. This allows Directions
Media to not only report on current news and applications,
but also provide commentary and advice on industry trends.
And we are driven to serve our advertisers by bringing them
broad exposure through our worldwide reach.
CompassData, Inc.
12353 East Easter Avenue
Centennial, CO 80112
(303) 627-4058; (888) 766-2488
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Member Since:
3/2014
CompassData is a worldwide provider of high-quality Ground
Control Points (GCP) and field data collection services for
GIS, photogrammetric and remote sensing applications.
Established in 2003 as a woman-owned small business,
CompassData has developed standardized methods of
collecting and processing GPS ground control that ensures
every point is globally consistent regardless of where it was
captured. Every GCP meets or surpasses rigorous standards
for quality and accuracy.
CompassData performs custom collection of ground control
and data sets for clients worldwide through highly experi-
enced in-house geodetic survey teams and an international
network of select partners. GCPs can be captured and deliv-
ered with guaranteed quality anywhere in the world within
two to six weeks of order placement
Off-the-shelf GCPs are available for immediate purchase
from the CompassData online database, the world’s largest
commercial GCP archive containing over 26,000 photo-identi-
fiable points in 100 countries. CompassData makes the GCP
data and metadata available for viewing and direct download
in a reduced-accuracy format from its website to enable
clients to review points and license details before ordering the
final data in the accuracy level required.
Used extensively to orthorectify or correct aerial, satellite
and UAS imagery as well as LiDAR data, CompassData GCPs
are utilized to verify the accuracy of imagery, LiDAR and GIS
datasets. Remote sensing satellite operators also use GCPs
to calibrate newly deployed sensors. CompassData routinely
provides archived and new GCPs to gas and electric utilities,
energy exploration companies, government offices, geospatial
product vendors, and telecommunications organizations. Each
GCP is processed to CompassData accuracy specifications and
delivered with accompanying metadata and station diagram
describing how it was acquired.
The standard delivery format is WGS84, and CompassData
offers optional deliveries in any datum, projection and epoch
required by the client.
