Hello,
I have an extensive background in aviation and would like to blend that experience with my future GIS degree. I really would like to get a job using LiDAR or cameras from an aircraft. Maybe for the USGS, oil/natural gas companies, or agricultural. If you have any insight into this I'd really appreciate it. Especially jobs in Oklahoma, Colorado, or other western states.
Thanks,
Soonermapper
Get a drone. And a laptop. And learn the software. And, get a GPS system.
It's what I'd do.
Those planes with cameras are reaching eol.
Nate The Surveyor, post: 354639, member: 291 wrote: Get a drone. And a laptop. And learn the software. And, get a GPS system.
It's what I'd do.
Those planes with cameras are reaching eol.
You are limited severly in the area you can work. Anything I want to do will require a vast work area. Also, what you're doing is also way over-saturated.
Check out
www.dronezon.com
I predict that a fleet of large drones, will revamp and reinvent this whole area of technology, in the next few yrs.
An array of several drones, with faa clearance, could map a whole county, in a very short time, at a reasonable cost...
Check out
www.dronezon.com
I predict that a fleet of large drones, will revamp and reinvent this whole area of technology, in the next few yrs.
An array of several drones, with faa clearance, could map a whole county, in a very short time, at a reasonable cost...
I expect that a great many surveyors will be providing aerial mapping services in the (near) future but only a relative few will be flying their own drones. This is particularly true if the pilot's license requirement is not relaxed. A few service providers will own and operate the drones as a service for the many surveyor-photogrammetrists of the future.
Nate The Surveyor, post: 354648, member: 291 wrote: Check out
www.dronezon.com
I predict that a fleet of large drones, will revamp and reinvent this whole area of technology, in the next few yrs.
An array of several drones, with faa clearance, could map a whole county, in a very short time, at a reasonable cost...
You're probably not a pilot are you? If you are, then you realize the nightmare this will cause to the flying public. Besides the FAA will not give clearance for that. I know because I'm an FAA employee.
Mark Mayer, post: 354650, member: 424 wrote: I expect that a great many surveyors will be providing aerial mapping services in the (near) future but only a relative few will be flying their own drones. This is particularly true if the pilot's license requirement is not relaxed. A few service providers will own and operate the drones as a service for the many surveyor-photogrammetrists of the future.
The pilot requirement will not be relaxed for commercial use.
Drones are too handy, too cheap, and too useful, to ignore their capabilitys.
I predict that drone operators, who need to go higher, than 400 ft agl, will wind up filing computerized flight patterns. And, the drones will be equipped with sort of signal, and aircraft will have sensors, that will show them both the drone location, and their flight pattern.
Drones aren't going away, and pilots are not going to like them. They may require a pilots license to operate them, in this capacity... My brother is a pilot, and so is my uncle. I have 4 hrs in a Cessna 150, and I've been flying r/c for yrs.
I know enough to hurt myself, and others. Human nature dictates that drones are here to stay. No different than horse and buggys, vs the automobile.
I am not sure how, but I am sure they won't go away.
Soonermapper, post: 354653, member: 10973 wrote: The pilot requirement will not be relaxed for commercial use.
I'm not sure how you could know that for sure. But supposing it true, that means there will be a need for licensed pilots who will provide drone flying services.
I'd agree. They are much cheaper to operate. Licensed pilots, with drones.
But, all that stuff below 400 ft.... Is gonna be a hay day!
SoonerMapper- I've sent you a private message/new conversation, I think I can help you out with your job search- check your surveyorconnect login (or email me, my email is in my profile)
Here in Huntsville, Alabama a local company has started offering drone-collected mineral resource stockpile locating using UAV's- they have openings across the US- they have an advertisement in the January 2016 magazine, American Surveyor, pg 45- they are actively looking to fill open positions in the Northeast, Midwest, Great Lakes, Central Texas, Mid-Atlantic.
Their website is at www.airgon.com (AirGon division of GeoCue group)
