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| Vol. 18, No. 9 | Serving IEEE Members of South Central Wisconsin | October 2015 |
Event: Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) are exploding as a cost effective solution for geospatial data collection. However, many people jumping into the UAS foray are finding that the production of accurate geospatial products, capable of effectively tying into their enterprise geospatial environments, is not as straight forward as they thought. Struggles arise with understanding data accuracies, knowing the limits of what content can be automatically extracted versus manually derived from the imagery, as well as the challenges around data management. To help understand how to mitigate those struggles, Continental Mapping will present some best practices for deriving map products from UAS imagery as illustrated through several project examples. The talk will provide a solid understanding of the accuracies that can be derived from UAS imagery as well as best practices for manipulating UAS imagery into geospatial data products..
Bio: Mr. Braun has over 25 years of experience in GIS and geospatial technology. As Vice President of Sales and Marketing, he is responsible for global sales and marketing efforts. Paul is also the founder of Taking Autism to the Sky (TATTS), a volunteer run, non-profit organization that leverages drones to develop social and employment skills for people on the autism spectrum while building quality, 3D products.5Nines Talk and Tour: Anton (Tony) Kapela was a fountain of information on the issues surrounding 5Nine's business of providing IT hosting and Network Services. He discussed a number of the key points of operating a high-availability facility. Some of the key issues for the IT Datacenter Systems Architecture are Power, Facitities, and Interconnection. He showed pictures of the current state-of-the-art of high-end facilities, such as those Google uses, or NetFlix uses to support video data storage and transmission. 5Nine's customers span a wide range of needs from something as simple as a virtual host, to a quarter-rack, to a whole caged-in and blocked off server farm. He spent a bit of time talking about the power that a modern data center requires, from the redundant power inputs, to levels of UPS support and backup. While a large amount of power goes into the datacenter, a lot of heat must leave the data center, requiring a lot of facility air conditioning. The data communications link bandwidth requirements are amazing, especially in the evening hours when the large majority of bandwidth goes to supporting video transmission, mostly due to NetFlix.
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