Smartplanes concept for aerial mapping and surveying from small unmanned aircraft was presented at the first interim meeting of the ImpactMin EU-project in Split, Croatia 22-23 February. The overall objective of ImpactMin is to develop new methods and a toolset for impact monitoring of mining operations using Earth Observations and in-situ dat. More information on [More>>]
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Mar 212011
Bjurholm forest mapping
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Sep 202010
A production forest area of 5 square kilometres was mapped by the Swedish Forest Agency on behalf of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences for a scientific research project. The area was flown in 11 sorties with a high degree of overlap between flight blocks (each flight mapped approx. on square km). Georeferenced photo mosaics [More>>]
Sladan environmental monitoring
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Jul 242010
The Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences used PAMS to study the succession of vegetation in a shallow lake in Northern Sweden as part of an environmental monitoring project. The study area was mapped in 5 overlapping flights, each one covering approximately 75 hectares. Preliminary photo mosaics were produced on-site [More>>]
Kiruna vegetation mapping
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Jul 152010
Luleå University of Technology used PAMS to map a test site for the EU-project Impactmin . The high resolution orthophoto mosaic was used for detailed mapping of water vegetation in the area. The application is very time sensitive and requires the mapping to take place at a certain stage of vegetation development. Another requirement was [More>>]
Norsjö open pit mine
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Jun 212010
An open pit mine was surveyed on behalf of one of the leading mining companies in northern Sweden. The assignment was to provide high accuracy surface models (DSMs) and orthophoto mosaics for two adjacent sites, each one approximately one square kilometer in size. The total area was covered in 4 flights from 200 m altitude [More>>]
Juktan hydropower
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May 102010
A hydropower dam was surveyed by the Swedish Forest Agency on behalf of the operator. In order to guarantee a high absolute precision a number of signalled ground control points were established and measured with a RTK GPS before flying the area. The site was mapped in two flights from 200 m alt. A high [More>>]
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>>]
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>>]
Durham canyon riverbank erosion
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Aug 132008
The Department of Geography, Durham University performed a 3D survey of an active erosion area South of Durham on the first deployment with their new Personal Aerial Mapping System. Surface models and orthophoto mosaics were processed both by Germatics PAMS processing centre and with in-house software at the Department of Geography. See also story on [More>>]
