INTERGEO, held this week in Essen, Germany, is positioning itself as the leading global platform for GIS IT.   INTERAERIAL Solutions is the section of the show featuring drone solutions: an increasingly important sector of the GIS industry.

Many mapping service providers work in one arena or the other: using satellite or data acquired from large manned aircraft to map large areas, or working with drone data for smaller areas or jobs that require data from close to the ground.  Increasingly, however, as customers realize that drones are sometimes the best tool for the job, there is crossover between the two.

SimActive was one of the high-end mapping platforms that made the move to incorporate drone data early on.  Starting out as a solution for military and government agencies, SimActive provided rapid and precise processing of satellite data with their signature product, Correlator 3D.  Easy to use and easy to implement, the product was adopted by the Canadian…

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Source: dronelife.com