Swedish Aviation Authorities releases new regulations on UAS.
SmartOne is classed 1 A that gives very few restrictions on how to use the system.
The regulations in Swedish can be viewed here , and English here
New Swedish UAS regulations
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Dec 012009
PIEneering OY reseller in Finland
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Nov 302009
PIEneering OY will work as reseller of PAMS in Finland. PIEneering has a long co-operation with SmartPlanes and has played an important role developing software for PAMS. PIEneering is a full scale service company specialized in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) based on aerial imaging systems and services. Besides their own flight mission service they offer services [More>>]
New member of the board
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Nov 192009
Werner Mayr from GERMATICS GmbH joins the board of SmartPlanes. He has long experience from the field of photogrammetry and is a strong supporter of the PAMS concept. We welcome Werner and are sure that his work in the board will strengthen SmartPlanes
Roundwood stockpile measurement
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Oct 282009
The task was to provide volume measurements of roundwood stockpiles at biofuel industry in northern Sweden. After driving 250 km to the site the entire area was mapped in less than 45 minutes from arrival and preliminary photo mosaics were produced on-site to verify data quality. The dataset was subsequently processed at the PAMS web [More>>]
Finsrud volume measurement
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Oct 272009
SmartPlanes was contracted to survey some gravel piles using the PAMS system at a remote site surrounded by forest in Southeastern Norway. The background to this project was an old municipal rock quarry in a remote location was being divided among a number of stakeholders. The quarry had previously been in operation and there was [More>>]
Sep 192009
The PAMS system is particularly useful for time-critical mapping of small areas, especially in remote locations. On this site there was a controlled experiment for testing an airborne radar sensor for mapping stormfelled trees. the researchers wanted to test the effect of different orientations of windfelled trees on the sensor response. By controlled experiment, I [More>>]
Toresta- Gravel pit survey
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Aug 172009
Smartplanes system was used to survey a gravel pit outside of Bålsta near Stockholm to test the technology for making surface height measurements and volume estimates. An orthophoto mosaic and digital surface model from 224 photos was calculated.
Historic bridge
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Aug 022009
A historic bridge in Germany, one of the largest brick structures in the world was surveyed on behalf of BLOM Germany GmbH. The site was mapped in several flights generating both nadir and oblique photography. Preliminary maps were produced directly on-site to verify the data quality and the datasets were subsequently processed at the PAMS [More>>]
Röjnoret biofuel
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Jun 292009
The task was to determine the volume of several stockpiles of peat on behalf of a major bio-fuel company. The typical size of the cone-shaped piles were about 15 m hight and a radius of 30 m, thus being much too small objects for conventional aerial survey. Due to the nature of peat production the [More>>]
Norsholm watershed 3D survey
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May 172009
SmartPlanes was contracted to produce a detailed digital surface model of a drainage basin in a mixed agricultural landscape of close to 1000ha. The 3D model was needed for detailed modelling of phosphor leaching from agricultural fertilizers into small ditches and streams. For this purpose, the client needed an accurate 3D mapping of every agricultural [More>>]
