Geoholics Anonymous / UAV Mapping

Welcome to this meeting of Geoholics Anonymous! This is a bi-weekly “roundtable” style discussion touching on the current issues affecting the Land Surveying & Mapping professions. This panel was made up of Kent Groh, LS (Host of The Geoholics), Scott Ohana, LS (UNIFLI), Mark Taylor (Extreme Aerial Productions), Rose Hart (Stantec), Jim Crume, LS (Cooper Aerial & Surveying Mathematics Made Simple), Ernest Huffman (North Texas UAS Safety and Integration Task Force) and Zach Pieper, LS (Quantum Land Design). The topic of this week’s GA meeting was UAV and drone technology. We covered current applications, control practices, safety & privacy and where the panelist see the technology heading.