Aerial Imaging Projects

Navigator CS, LLC and its business partner Rice Associates, Inc. recently acquired a senseFly eBee RTK Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), commonly known as a “drone,” to enhance their surveying and photogrammetry capabilities. “The eBee RTK is senseFly’s survey-grade mapping drone,” said Charlie Rice, Past President and Corporate Quality Control Manager of Rice Associates, Inc. “For specific projects the need for ground control targets...

Esri’s Drone2Map for ArcGIS turns raw still images from drones into professional 2D and 3D products such as orthomosaics, digital surface models, and 3D point clouds and meshes. The app detects camera and sensor parameters and then intelligently applies appropriate defaults, thus making affordable imagery available on demand for land analysis, infrastructure inspection, and monitoring events such as natural disasters and environmental...

Navigator’s President, Paul Beckwith, and Sr. Project Engineer, Gladys Miller, manned a booth within Esri’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Neighborhood during Esri’s 2016 FedGIS Conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.  Navigator also gave UAS demonstration flights inside a UAS Cage and delivered a presentation titled “UAS Imaging Services Buyers Beware!”  The talk aimed to educate buyers of UAS...

Navigator CS, LLC flew its Inspire 1 UAS to conduct an aerial survey of a densely-wooded area in order to perform the aerial imaging and GIS mapping of a portion of a creek. The objective of this flight was to assist our customer, a land surveyor, with establishing the banks and centerline of the creek as a property boundary.  To comply with the FAA requirement that we maintain visual line of sight (VLOS) of the aircraft at all times, we flew...

Navigator CS, LLC is using the knowledge gained during the FAA Exemption Process to help other businesses acquire the capability to use drones for civil operations.  On one such project, Navigator wrote and filed a petition for SkyCentric LLC of Raleigh, NC. This petition will allow SkyCentric to utilize its DJI Phantom 2, Phantom 3, Spreading Wings S900 and Spreading Wings S1000 to acquire aerial imagery and data for real estate, architecture,...

Navigator CS, LLC collaborated with Esri, and Icaros on the collection of aerial imagery and video at the Oatlands Historic Home and Gardens in Leesburg, VA. The data collected was used to generate 3D geospatial data for utilization within a GIS.  This collection effort was also recorded and used to demonstrate how the drone collection process was completed.  This project was summarized on the following video, presented at Esri’s 2015...