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The Aerial Applications software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform provides drone-based digital asset management, making it easy to view store and share photos and videos from drones. This helps keep infrastructuremanagers informed in routine operations, with significant advantages during time-sensitive operations. That organization and speed is critical during disaster recovery efforts. Aerial Applicationsperforms Wide-Area Damage Assessments (WADA) by using images and videos from drones to construct models and maps, which are put through visual recognition software for damage detection and assessment.
Our software is capable of highly accurate measurements, and provided clients use high-resolution cameras on the drones, the resulting measurements can be made accurate down to a few centimeters
The cloud-based SaaS platform offers a full range of features to make drone data more useful. All that Aerial needs to get to work is for the customers to send in images (JPEG) or video (MP4) file of the area that requires mapping. The firm works closely with its customers to build use cases, which can function as different modules, to supplement the out-of-the-box, solution on offer. These modules can be customized with custom fields to meet a client's specific needs.
“Our team has a host of talented individuals doing groundbreaking work on a daily basis. We are trying to address what we think is one of the more pivotal technologies in our lifetime," explains Sullivan. Aerial Applications is focused on developing the software necessary to make drones simple and easy to use. They provide high resolution, ultra realistic models, supported with visual recognitionto quickly and easily sort through information.
When mapping Irma-affected areas for Comcast, the firm went through terabytes of data that was crunched, processed and sorted in a matter of hours. And, that is what the firm sees as its future: Being able to help customers organize and sort through large volumes visual data in a meaningful and sustained way in the least time possible.