Identified Technologies

Granite’s never used a drone on the type of project like this to come up with quantities, so wanted to see the cost-benefit and time benefit of utilizing the PPK versus using ground control points. Say it takes four flights for me to fly the entire site at 400, it’s going to take me eight flights to fly it at 200, so it’s only worth doing when we really need that increased accuracy. Without that, it would have been really tough because we were always chasing this impacted soil, and as we chased it, we had to take more over dirt, and we had to prove that to the owners that we’re taking out this much over dirt, and show this impacted material that’s on T&M’s is not included. For job progress, it’s an easy way to show owners and upper management where we’re at and what’s going on on the site.

Learn from leaders across multiple industries why they chose Identified Technologies over alternatives, and what their experience has been from initial contact to on-boarding, results, and organizational transformation Keystone Consultants, came to the realization that monthly flyovers were becoming too expensive and on-foot inspections of well pads were not the best use of their employees time. So they started to look at drone mapping software applications knowing they would no longer have to rely on paying for traditional flyovers and avoid misuses of their labor force. Learn how Dave Stewart, Vice President of Keystone Consultants with over 3 decades of experience in the industry, leverages drone data to keep clients happy and increase profits. This construction company does everything from airports to water treatment plants, regularly working at a 3-21 million cubic yard site scale.

We recently had the opportunity to speak with Josh McLaughlin, Manager of Geomatics for Seneca Resources, on the impact of drone mapping with his geomatics team and his company — which specializes in natural gas. Being an early adopter of drone mapping, Josh provides an honest, firsthand account of how his GIS and surveying departments are transforming their operations due to the impact of this technology

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