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April 2020
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
INDUSTRY
NEWS
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
GeoCue Group
is pleased to announce a partnership with
Sumac Geomatics Incorporated, based in Thunder Bay, Ontario,
as a Canadian distributor for GeoCue’s True View® integrated
LIDAR/Imaging sensors for UAV/drone operations. Sumac
Geomatics will be supporting True View customers in Ontario
and Manitoba. GeoCue’s new True View product line provides
integrated drone-based 3D LIDAR/Imaging sensors with full
workflow software from data capture to product generation. The
True View410 is available for immediate delivery, with additional
models being introduced later this year. True View sensors are
available as a traditional equipment purchase or as an innovative
Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS) subscription model.
Sumac Geomatics is a service provider to the forestry, mining
and civil engineering sectors. With strong foundations in
Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, photo-
grammetry, and field services, Sumac’s team has a reputation of
delivering projects across Canada, especially in remote locations
and communities. In a rapidly evolving industry, Sumac works
hard to stay on the cutting-edge of software, hardware, and
operational advances to remain responsive and effective both
in the field and in the office. The company was one of the first
in Canada to pioneer the commercial use of Remotely Piloted
Aerial Systems (drones) and photogrammetry for high resolution
mapping and surveying, has developed new approaches to forest
operations planning, and is the Eastern Canada field service
partner for the Photodocufy facility documentation service.
More recently, Sumac has diversified its business with a hard-
ware solutions business line. This includes becoming Canadian
sales and service representative for the Teledyne Optech Cavity
Monitoring System (CMS), an industry standard technology for
monitoring/measuring stope-based mining. Sumac’s project
experiences are now perfectly suited to bringing the True View
3D imaging system to its customers in Ontario and Manitoba.
To learn more, visit
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Teledyne Optech
, a Teledyne Technologies, is pleased to
announce that OGL Engineering of Calgary, Alberta is the first
Canadian company to purchase the Optech Galaxy T2000 lidar
sensor. With the purchase of the Galaxy T2000 and a GSM4000
sensor mount, OGL will increase the efficiency of their aerial
data collection, which includes projects for a variety of industries
including: electric utilities, pipelines, forestry, mining, and
government infrastructure. As a team that provides A to Z
aerial survey services from project design and data acquisition,
through to data processing and engineering analysis, OGL
understands how integral a reliable and efficient data acquisi-
tion solution is to achieve project success.
The Galaxy T2000 boasts a true 2 MHz laser emission rate
directed fully to the ground by a new high frequency, pro-
grammable scanner for effective point distribution. Combined
with Teledyne Optech’s patented SwathTRAK™ capability,
the Galaxy T2000 is capable of maintaining fixed-width data
swaths in mountainous terrain via an innovative and dynamic
field-of-view (FOV), enabling far fewer flight lines and more
equidistant point spacing compared to fixed-FOV sensor designs.
Find out more at
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EQUIPMENT
A
SPECTRAL EVOLUTION
distributor in China, Azup
International Group, Ltd., mounted a new RS-8800 field spect-
roradiometer on a drone and took some field scans.
The RS-8800 field spectroradiometer is a full range (350-
2500nm) high resolution/high sensitivity system including an
Internet of Things (IoT) operating system that allows you to
operate the system by iPhone, Android device, or tablet. In
combination with our new Sensa/Tilt™ gimbal stabilized fiber
holder, researchers can access and store more important field
data in addition to their scans, including:
• A picture of the exact sample Field of View that you want
to scan
• The angle of the scan
• The sun height angle
• The GPS location
The SR-8800 uses its IoT operating system to control the pistol
grip functionality so that any user can get consistent scans. The
IoT uses a WiFi network accessed by an Android device, iPhone
or tablet for controlling the system and downloading data stored
on the instrument.
For more information, visit:
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applications/remote-sensing/rs-8800-mounted-on-a-drone/.
CALENDAR
• 7-9 May,
GISTAM 2020—6th International
Conference on Geographical Information Systems
Theory, Applications and Management
, Prague,
Czech Republic. For more information, visit:
org/.
• 18-20 May,
UAV STRATUS
, Buffalo, New York. For more
information, visit
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• 20-22 May,
AutoCarto 2020
, Redlands, California. For
more information, visit
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• 15-22 August,
43
rd
COSPAR Scientific Assembly
,
Sydney, Australia. For more information, visit www.
cospar-assembly.org/.
