The document discusses potential uses of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for remote sensing and mapping applications. It provides an overview of The Sanborn Map Company, which specializes in aerial data collection and processing. The company sees opportunities to integrate UAS technology into its existing service offerings to expand into new markets and services. Example applications discussed include agriculture, ranching, emergency response, and infrastructure inspection. Regulatory issues and business models for UAS services are also covered.

1. Unmanned Aerial System (UAS)
uses for Remote Sensing and
Mapping Applications
GeCo in The Rockies, September 2014
Grand Junction, CO
Jason Caldwell, VP of Business Development and Sales
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2. Agenda
• Sanborn Overview and Why UAS?
• Non-Airborne Drones
• UAS/UAV Technology
• Sensor Technology
• Communications Technology
• Mapping, Remote Sensing
• Testing
• Public Safety Use Cases
• Regulation Issues
• Current Business Models
• Questions
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3. Company Overview
• Sanborn is an industry leader in terms of acquisition
resources and data processing throughput, assets included:
– Aircraft (12)
– UltraCam Eagle Digital (3)
– UltraCamD (2)
– Integraph Z/I (4)
– 5-way oblique system (4)
– Airborne GPS systems (7)
– Inertial Navigation Systems (6)
– Trimble GPS survey equipment
– IT Infrastructure (over a Petabyte of storage)
– Over 1,200 distributive processing CPUs

4. 4
Decision
Support
Visualization
Systems
Software Applications
Value Added Services
(Base Map Analysis)
Data and Map Production
Comprehensive Solutions
• Decision Support Systems
– Wildfire Management
– Forestry and Ecosystem Management
– Emergency Response
• Visualization Systems
– 2D
– 3D
– Prism 4D, Common Operating Picture
• Software Applications
– GIS Software Development
(Enterprise/Desktop/Web)
– Portals and Distribution Tools
• Value-Added Services
– Land use and land cover analyses
– Change detection
– Other imagery analysis services
• Mapping & Remote-Sensed Services
– LiDAR, Digital Orthoimagery,
Photogrammetric, Topographical Maps

5. Airborne LiDAR
USGS QL1 SAMPLE

6. Mobile Mapping
100 points per Sq. Meter Sample

7. Orthoimagery

8. Google Imagery and Sanborn Added Value
• Google Imagery combined with Sanborn
– Formatting
– Projections
– Tilling
– Planimetrics
– Land Cover
– Change Detection
– DEM/DSMs
– Accuracy assessment
– Cloud hosting (client owned and Google data)
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9. Planimetrics

10. Storm Water Utility and Fee Management Using
Impervious Data
Cities can revamp their Storm Water Utility
Rate Structure using Google Imagery and
Sanborn’s Premium Impervious Data
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Stormwater Needs
Assessment &
Rate Structure
Development
Ordinance for
New Rate
Structure
Public Info
Review &
Adjustment
Billing
&
Collection
Update
&
Maintenance

11. Oblique Imagery

12. 3D Data

13. 2D map of the scanned environment
3D LiDAR intensity point cloud of the scanned area
A topological map of the area
Derivative products:
i. 3D LiDAR intensity point cloud can be vectorized to extract objects in the scene
ii. Create photo-realistic 3D model of the building interiors
iii. Building inventory of the quantity, locations and dimensions of all scanned objects
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15. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
In the US alone, approximately 50 companies, universities,
and government organizations are developing and
producing over 155 unmanned aircraft designs.
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16. Unmanned Aerial
Systems
UAS
UAV
Communications
Sensors

17. • Integrate technology into existing
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UAS and Sanborn
Expand value
propositions
within existing
set of target
verticals
Develop new
offerings for
existing target
verticals
Expand offerings
into
new verticals
Develop new offerings
for new verticals and
expand geographies
New
Verticals
Current
Verticals
products and services
• Allows for expansion into new
Markets
• Allows for expansion into new
Services
Current Value Propositions New Value Propositions

18. http://www.birdseyeimaging.net/
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19. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=c0
gvbN5uxEs&vq=large
Avenger E: Electric UAS
• Operational Altitude: 5,000 - 12,000 Ft WGS, no Lift Loss
• System that is sensor agnostic
• Full Autopilot : Autonomous flying, terrain following, target tracking, real
time GPS waypoints, simultaneous helicopters, etc. Dual Mode – Wireless
and Laptop
• Automated return home, max/min altitude setting
• Payload max of 10-15lbs
• Can fly in 50+ MPH cross winds, can land and take off in a small area
• Manufacture with build, training and maintenance programs
• Full Turn Key systems: Maintenance, Training and Helicopters, Ground
Stations, Wireless communications, etc.

20. Flight Management Integration
• Auto Take-Off, flight and Landing
• Waypoints – 10 CM Accuracy
• Terrain Following
• Remote camera settings and GPS integration
• Real Time Vehicle Data during flight

21. There is a Sensor for the Job
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22. Live Down Link Communication
Video : Digital/Analog
- Frequency : L, S and C
- Power: .25, 1, 2 and 5 Watt Power
- Range: .5 – 2 Mile
Video : IP
- Frequency : 5.8 GHz
- Power: 1, 2 and 5 Watt Power
- Range: 1 – 10 Mile
Control : Analog
- Frequency : 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz
- Power: 1, 2 Watt Power
- Range: 1 Mile HH, 2 Mile GS
Control : IP
- Frequency : 5.8 GHz
- Power: 1, 2 and 5 Watt Power
- Range: 1 – 10 Mile
Control : Satellite
- Frequency : Iridium
- Range: 10 Mile
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23. Digital Orthoimagery
• Sub centimeter resolution
• Horizontal accuracy within 2 pixels
Property UHWP

24. Digital Surface Models and 3D
Property UHWP
3D Color Photos DSM

25. Elevation Accuracy at 1-2 Centimeter Levels

26. Farms
• They really could care less about the UAS technology or the imagery
except to say it is cool. Surprisingly, most customers were familiar
with CIR imagery type. Really what they want is reports that provide
information to make faster and better decisions for:
– Soil typing for new seeding
– Information about how and when to fertilize
– Information about plant stress, irrigation or pest based
– Topography for dirt movement, irrigation etc…
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27. Testing- 1cm GSD vs. Google
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28. More Resolution Provides Different Context
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29. Crop Health Index
DSM
3cm Multi Spectral Ortho Imagery
Web Viewer built on open
source and other
technology:
• Leaflet
• MapQuest
• Stamen
• GDAL
Information to be
processed automatically
within 24 hours of flight.
Results: better beer
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30. 3cm Resolution
Imagery
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31. 3-5cm vertical accuracy
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32. Thermal

33. Video Application
• Inspection: Active of Hazardous areas and explosives
• EPA : Avoid Fines and Stack ‘Shutdown’ that can be up to
$1M in cost

34. Ranchers
• Almost all ranchers have interest in the smaller RDAS UAS system.
These applications don’t require significant remote sensing
processing; essentially all applications are video camera surveillance
type of work. Applications included:
– Livestock locations and issues
– Grazing patterns
– Fencing issues
– Well/Water tanks status
– Overall surveillance of property
• I had one rancher tell me he spends four hours every day driving to
his water tanks to confirm they have water for his cattle. He wanted
to use the RDASS for doing the work instead of driving.
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35. Tractor Companies
• Many of the new tractors that are being offered are drones, they are
automated robots. These tractors use GPS guided tools for
navigations. Current start up protocol requires driving the tractor
around the perimeters of the fields in order to define boundaries
which is quite expensive. There is a market to sell a UAS
service/devise to complete highly accurate boundary surveys that
can be used as input for the tractor navigation.
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36. Seed and Fertilizer Companies
• Insurance review: Guarantees are made to the farmers regarding the
products they are purchasing. When issues arise the Farmer calls the
seed/fertilizer company to complain about a portion of the crop that is
not meeting requirements.
• Advanced remote sensing: Many of these companies also have interest in
completing more advanced techniques for creating better products,
understanding soil types and other applications very similar to the Farm
applications mention in item 1 above.
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37. Fire and Streets
• Emergency Management/Fire: Stopped by the booth and want share
the system throughout the City for different EM requirements. Fire,
Police and other for surveillance type of work.
• Non-Ag. City of Greeley Streets Division: Has sensor that measures
road surface during ice and snow storms to determine salt and
gravel requirements. Sensor is currently used on truck; client
thought the UAS platform would be faster and less costly.
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38. Police - Surveillance/Search
• Ability to launch in less than 5 minutes
• Search large areas quickly, HD Video, Night and Infra-red
• Ability to zoom with HD Video or photos of subjects
• Quiet: At 100 – 300 Ft minimal sight and sound recognition
• Remote live communications feed with cloud broadcast
capabilities
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39. Police - Accident Reconstruction
• Reduce Trooper exposure to secondary crashes
• Fast: Take 100 pictures accurately in 5 – 10 minutes (Instead of ~45 mins)
• Calibration: Ability to digitally render entire accident scene into CAD
drawings for admission into court or case files
• High Quality: 15 – 20 MegaPixel for HD resolution and zoom
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40. Prism 4D - Common Operating Picture

41. FAA Issues: Three Current ways to Legally use UAS
• Model Aircraft: Recreational use of the UAS is covered by FAA Advisory Circular
(AC) 91-57, which generally limits operations to below 400 feet above ground level
and away from airports and air traffic.
• Experimental UAS: An SAC-EC is the only certification means available to civil
operators for UAS. Since July 2005, the FAA has issued 94 SAC-EC, to 13 civil
operators covering 20 unique UAS types. The FAA works with these operators to
collect technical and operational data to improve the UAS airworthiness
certification process.
• Public UAS and COA: The process is available to public entities, including military,
law enforcement, and other governmental agencies who want to fly a UAS in civil
airspace. Applicants apply online and the FAA evaluates the request. The FAA
issues a COA generally based on the following principles:
– The COA authorizes an operator to use defined airspace and includes special provisions
unique to the proposed operation.
– Most COAs are issued for a specified time period (up to one year, in most cases).
– Most COAs require coordination with an appropriate air traffic control facility
– The FAA issued 146 COAs in 2009 and 298 in 2010, more than doubling in one year. As of
June 28, 2011, there were 251 active COAs, 90 different proponents, and 77 different
aircraft types.
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42. Business Model: System Sales
• System sales
– With and w/o maintenance contract
– With and w/o sensors packages
• Hyperspectral
• RGB
• Video
• FLIR
• LiDAR
– With and w/o support to obtain Certificate of
Authorization (COA)
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43. Business Model: Pilot and Processing Services
• Trained Pilots to provide service to fly client owned Systems
• Large scale mapping (1”=20’ map scale or better)
• Small AOI updates/maintenance
– Landfills
– DOT Survey and Mapping
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44. Questions
Jason Caldwell
Vice President of Business Development and Sales
719-264-5547
jcaldwell@sanborn.com
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