Received the email below. Now GIS and Agricultural organizations are hosting demonstrations of using drones for aerial mapping. Any one want to bet on how long it is until the survey brokers want to start using this. Get the county GIS data, fly it with a drone and overlay them based on coordinates. [sarcasm]What could go wrong?[/sarcasm]
>From: Scott Cormany [mailto:scott.cormany@fayette-co-oh.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 4:19 PM
>Subject: Drone will Fly at SW Corn Growers Meeting Tuesday August 13th Fayette County, Ohio
>Hello All,
>I would like to invite all of you to the Southwest Ohio Corn Growers Meeting Tuesday August 13th 2013 at the Fayette County Airport.
>At this event a UAS operated by Precision Hawk ( http://precisionhawk.com/ ) will be flying at the SW Corn Growers Meeting August 13th at 10:00am, 11:30am & 2:00pm. They will explain what the platform is doing while in the air and answer any questions after the flight. Each demonstration period will be about 45min. Please see attached Flyer. Notice you can take flights for 30 bucks too! Lunch is at 1pm!
>RSVP to scott.cormany@fayette-co-oh.com by August 6th 2013.
>Hope to see you there.
>You can check out Precision Hawks Marketing Material below:
> https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B56mK9jWQDZdeWhxTmNpdW53a0k&usp=sharing
>Scott David Cormany, GIS Director
>Fayette County GIS/Fayette County Auditor
>scott.cormany@fayette-co-oh.com
>1415 US 22 SW Suite 200 Washington Court House, OH 43160
>Office: 740.333.3599 Mobile: 740.572.1364
>Visit Fayette County GIS Online
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There was a drone seminar in south Texas Thursday.
