Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)



Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) known widely as drones or Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) are vehicles which do not have a pilot inside to control it manually. These are controlled by onboard computers or by using a remote control. These can be used for multiple purposes especially in geographic information systems (GIS). Since they can easily collect better and more accurate, higher resolution pictures than a manned aircraft, UAVs are ideal for use in GIS. Digitalizing maps and viewing them in different layers in order to further study the elements on it in more detail is one of the most important things in the processing of the data collected using UAVs. This data can be interpreted and extracted by vectorizing to get precise information easily. Data collecting services include finding the height changes using (DEM) and (DTM), analyzing the measures, distances, positions, exact ground co-ordinates and removing the distortions. This data can be used for finding where certain objects or items on a map are such as a building or a place of interest, finding solar farms for use in solar panels, forecasting geographical data etc. These services are particularly used by military defense systems, finding energy sources for energy companies, town planning, for geological Investigations, finding mineral deposits in rocks, sources of ground water and so on.

Unmanned aerial vehicles are used by thousands of companies for different purposes throughout the world. SBL is one among the companies who provide the this UAV services with its many partners across the globe. SBL has a team of experts who interprets the inputs given by UAVs, perfects them and provide the information to you according to your needs.

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