About

SmartPlanes manufactures a lightweight Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) equipped with an autopilot and digital camera that is a simple and inexpensive tool for aerial photography over smaller areas.  The plane flies automatically over a pre-defined area of interest and takes photos on a regular grid. The resulting photos can be processed to produce detailed photo maps or even make accurate surface height measurements.

Many time-critical mapping and monitoring tasks can be done more effectively with small UAS than with conventional manned aircraft or point surveys.  In fact, this technology opens up many new applications for aerial survey where conventional methods would be impractical, too dangerous or prohibitively expensive.

Our goal is to integrate modern UAS technology together with advanced data processing software into a highly automated system that can be operated by non-specialists. After an intensive period of development and field testing, we are pleased to offer our Personal Aerial Mapping System (PAMS) as a turn-key solution for geospatial data providers and end users.

Here on our website you can read more about PAMS technology and some of the projects it has been used in.  Please feel free to contact us for more information.