Chip Berniard

Bio: Chip Berniard has a degree in Geomatics Engineering and a 15 year career with Trimble engaged in a variety of roles from Applications Engineer, QA Systems Testing, Survey Business Area Product Specialist. Survey Sales experience includes Field Support Engineer, Regional Account Representative, and currently Technical Sales providing distributor and key customer pre-sales support in emerging technologies. More recent focus has included the Gatewing UAS aerial mapping and surveying system, along with terrestrial based scanning, and the software solutions that enable the required customer deliverables.

Taking Flight with Drones

Drones have quickly become a hot topic in mapping, but details are often vague on how this technology can be directly applied. We’ll take a look at real data collected with an unmanned aircraft starting with the steps involved for legal compliance through to the processing of data and delivering a file to a client.

drone, uav, aerial mapping, point cloud