Newfoundland and Labrador Branch - CIG

Hosting Geomatics Atlantic 2011 - October 5-7
             Sheraton Newfoundland Hotel
 
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Past Events:
March 29, 2010 (Monday) 
Place: Salon B, Comfort Inn, St. John's, 106 Airport Road (former Airport Inn)
Start Time: Come at 11:30 for a 12:00 noon luncheon and Presentation (See details below)
A PowerPoint summary will be posted later
Presentation: 

Derivations from Digital Aerial Imagery:

Digital aerial imagery has been around for almost a decade and since the early part of the millennium, large format frame cameras, oriented with Inertial Measurement units couple to GNSS receivers have provided almost fully automated workflows from acquisition through to digital orthorectification.

Also, digital imagery offers 4 band multispectral imagery at hitherto unavailable photogram-metrically accurate levels.  These four bands can be carried right through to orthorectification and mosaicing permitting remote sensing use of the resultant images.

LIDAR technology which has been around since the mid 1990’s is now no longer the sole source of digital surface modeling.  The use of high overlap imagery enables the extraction of very dense point clouds at higher accuracy per flying height than LIDAR.  DSM technologies can not only be used to create subsequent elevation and terrain models, but are also useful in their own right.

The uses of direct digital imagery are in all ways based on replacing large format film surveys, plus the following:

  • AUTOMATED ORTHO IMAGE CREATION
  • AUTOMATED DIGITAL SURFACE MODELLING
  • MULTI SPECTRAL IMAGE ANALYSIS IN 4 SIMULTANEOUS BANDS
  • HIGH RESOLUTION RECONAISSANCE IMAGES FOR WILDLIFE SURVEYS
  • ACCELERATED WORKFLOWS

ALEXANDER M. GIANNELIA, B.A.A

President

THE AIRBORNE SENSING CORPORATION
Ste. 110 Hangar 6
TORONTO CITY CENTRE AIRPOT
TORONTO, Ontario
M5V 1A1

Phone (416) 203-9858
Fax       (416) 203-9843
Cell       (416) 529-0070

email: ag@airsensing.com

WEB: www.airsensing.com

 

April 20, 2011 Branch Luncheon Meeting
Location:  Comfort Inn near the Airport (2nd floor the Executive Boardroom)
    • Hot Lunch
    • Brief Annual Meeting to elect Branch Officers
    • Cost: $20 for CIG members,  $25 for non-members - Pay online below
    • Deadline to register: April 18th
    • Presentation by Catriona MacFarlane-Reed on managing helicopter flight data for Cougar Helicopters

FDM Flight Data Monitoring, what is it?

We have all heard of and experienced flight following, where you are sitting on a plane and tracking how far along you are in the journey. Most of us take our cars to the garage for mechanical diagnostics, where a computer measures various sensors to rate the health of our vehicle. Remote sensing data is used for location information and monitoring of mechanical parts, but what about human factors? Human interaction with machines is what FDM is called in aviation. As an FDM manager, I monitor how an aircraft is flown. FDM is a fairly new industry and growing very quickly. It has been recognized as a major proactive contributor to safety and training. Identifying potential hazards and trends from data and changing behaviors to improve outcomes. Yes, big brother is watching you or better yet, measuring and monitoring.