Best Equipment & Technology
Using Advanced Tools Help Produce Great Results
Aerial Services boasts a collection of advanced equipment and technology that allows them to serve all of your geospatial needs. Below you will find a brief of some of the equipment at Aerial Services' disposal.
Aircraft
- 1975 PA31T-620 Cheyenne II twin-engine turbo-prop aircraft; pressurized, camera hole, airborne GPS
- 1977 PA31-310 Navajo twin-engine turbo-charged aircraft; camera hole, airborne GPS
- 1973 PA31-310 Navajo twin-engine turbo-charged aircraft; camera hole, airborne GPS
- 1979 T210N Cessna single-engine aircraft; camera hole, airborne GPS
Camera & Airborne GPS Systems
- Leica ADS80 Airborne Digital Sensor with Leica PAV30 gyro-stabilized mount (calibration report)
- Jena LMK model 1015 with 6" precision lens (3), forward image motion compensation, video monitor, gyro-stabilized mount, current USGS calibrations, CCNS-4, AEROcontrol GPS Inertial System (calibration reports)
- IGI AEROcontrol-IId GPS/Inertial Measurement Unit with L1/L2 survey grade GPS receiver
- IGI CCNS-4 Computer Controlled Navigation Systems
Photogrammetric Scanners
- Leica DSW 700 Scanner (b/w and color)
- Vexcel 4000 Scanner (b/w and color)
- Vexcel Imaging 5000 Scanner (b/w and color)
Mapping Production
- First-order analytical stereo-plotter for vector and DTM map compilation
- Digital Photogrammetric Softcopy Workstations
- Vector and DTM Edit Stations and Translators to CAD & GIS
- Image Processing Workstations (Orthovista, Photoshop, & MrSid)
- ERDAS Imagine Workstations
- GIS/CAD Workstations
- Wild Modified Pug III with zoom point transfer device
- Intergraph Image Station Photogrammetric Manager and Aerotriangulation
- Albany Aerotriangulation Package
- TerraModel Workstations
- Multiple ESRI ArcGIS, ArcSDE, ArcIMS Workstations and servers
- Full CAD and GIS capabilities are possible using the latest versions of all industry-standard software packages of Autocad, Bentley MicroStation, ArcView GIS, ER Mapper, Erdas Imagine, Orthovista, Roadcalc (roadway design and drafting software), & MrSID Image Compression
Global Positioning System (GPS) Survey Equipment
- Dual frequency geodetic grade L1/L2 rapid static and RTK Thales Navigation GPS receivers (centimeter accuracy)
- Thales MobileMapper handheld GPS receivers (sub-meter accuracy)
Networking
- Aerial Services computing facilities have been designed for maximum production efficiency and are networked using a one-gigabit fiber backbone to datafarms. They have a 10Mbps cable connection to the Internet and host their own mail, FTP, and web servers. Their on-line data storage capability approaches 100 terabytes.
