Mr. Jay Arnold, Magnolia River

Mr. Richard Vincent, McKim & Creed

Why Change?

Electric Utility

Safety and Reliability NERC FAC-

008 and FAC-003

As Built Infrastructure

monitor vegetation

annual requirement

Oil and Gas

PHMSA (US DOT)

PSC

Technology Driven Change

Technology Driven Customer Expectations

Technology leadership

Faster delivery

Lower cost /added value

Improved safety – reduced risk

Answers to solve a problem

Not Just Data

Although some still are

in the analogue world

The Crowd Change

Small ubiquitous sensors

active or passive costing less

than $5,000

Both commercial and

personal use

Using apps or cloud-based

processing for initial data (3D

point/pixel creation)

The Crowd Change

Based on Machine Vision “robotics”

Cloud-based SAS pricing – resulting

in a “colorized point cloud”

New 3D on the fly computations –

measurements and feedback such as

(Kinect) and Intel RealSense,etc

Google-Project Tango

MatterPort

DotProduct3D

Intel RealSense

The Crowd Revolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD

NzTasuYEw

The Coming Crowd Revolution Professional 3D scanning

expensive hardware and software

Complicated workflows and special

knowledge experience required to

create “information”

“Crowd-sourced” - currently used

as “complimentary” technology to

terrestrial laser scanning

The Crowd Revolution not Evolution Using tablets and phones –

3D will explode based on

“consumer level” tools

Clients will be able to

collect and cloud-process

their own data into relative

3D space

Less accurate in absolute

terms – more flexible and

low cost

The Crowd Revolution

Google June 2014 –

1st consumer device based

on Project Tango would be LG,

with an expected launch date in

2015.

This device is the built-in 3D

scanning technology which

makes it possible to create

accurate 3D maps on the fly.

Scan duration is 3 minutes – 20 minutes processing

Permanent 3D record -3D points

http://www.dotproduct3d.com/Industrial.php

The Crowd Revolution

(DOTPRODUCT Example)

Expectations in the Market

Cheaper

Faster

More accurate ??

Do it myself

Drones “aka” sUAS

Drones “aka” sUAS Commercial Operations Tierra Antigua Realty

Trimble Navigation Limited

Clayco, Inc.

Astraeus Aerial

HeliVideo Productions, LLC

RC Pro Productions Consulting

Snaproll Media, LLC

Advanced Aviation Solutions

VDOS Global, LLC

Woolpert, Inc.

Aerial MOB, LLC

Pictorvision Inc.

Vortex Aerial

NEWSFLASH10 U.S. media companies,

including the New York

Times, the Associated Press

and NBCUniversal, will test

the use of drones for news

gathering, seeking to

persuade the government

to broaden the

commercial use of the

small unmanned aircraft.

Hot Button Issue – Negative Reaction

Professional Aerial Photographers

Association

- Safety concerns

- Lack of no rules

- Impact to jobs

Airline Pilots Association

- Safety concerns

And what about privacy?

Hot Button Issue - Positive Reaction

AUVSI

Small UAV Coalition

- 3DR

- Aerialtronics

- Airware

- Amazon Prime

- DJI Innovations

- Google[x]'s Project Wing

- GoPro and Parrot as founding members

DYI Drones > 50K members

Drones “aka” sUAS Commercial Operations

Much like GPS

revolutionized survey,

sUAS will do the same

for mapping

sUAS mapping is the

natural progression to

aerial mapping and

complimentary to survey

Drones “aka” sUAS Major Investments

PrecisionHawk - Intel Capital is joining a $10 million

funding round to help build out future iterations of the

company’s unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and cloud

backend of making UAVs as automated as possible for

users.

Airware raised $25 million - work is on hardware,

operating systems, and cloud services for unmanned

aircraft

Google SkyBox

Planet Labs

Urthecast

Digital Globe

Satellites and Technology• 90 sec HD video

• Sub meter imagery

• Planned 24 Sat

Constellation

• Data + analytics

• NanoSats - “Doves” 3-5m

daily data

• Approx. 100 Sat

Constellation

• Data

• Sub meter imagery

• Data + analytics

• Crowdsourced - TOMNOD

• HD video 1m and 6M

resolution

• Real time tasking

• Data + analytics

1 petabyte (1000 terabytes)

1.5 petabytes

100 petabytes

1 zettaByte (1000 EB)

1 exabyte (1000 PB)

Big Data From Small Platforms to Big Data

13.3 yrs of HD video

Size of FaceBook photos > 10 billion

Annual YouTube video upload

1 million petabytes

All words ever spoken by humans

1930 - Information base 2x every 30 years

1970 - Information base 2x every 7 years

2000 - Information base 2x every 4 years

2012 - Five exabytes every 2 days

2020 - Estimated 35 zettabytes annually

“Every two days now we

create as much information

as we did from the dawn of

civilization up until 2003.”

Eric Schmidt,

Executive Chair, Google

Big Data: From Small Platforms to Big Data

Drones - 30,000+ flying in US by 2020

Cell phone and tablets

196 million smartphone users by 2018

31 million 3D tablets by 2018

Estimated data upload by smartphone and tablets – 95%

of the data “location aware” – 20+ petabytes annually

Globally, IP video traffic will reach 103.8 exabytes per

month in 2018, up from 33.6 exabytes per month in 2013

* Cisco VNI

Big Data: From Small Platforms to Big Data

ACM – Association for Computing Machinery

(SIGSPATIAL) Analytics for BIG Geospatial Data

Big Data: From Small Platforms to Big Data

Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)

Over 90% of government information has a geospatial

component

Over 95 % of business information has a geospatial

component

The 4 FOUR “V’s” of Big Geospatial Data

• ExaBytes to store, process and analyzeVolume

• Multiple “geo” sensors and non-geo sensorsVariety

• Real time information and changeVelocity

• Conforming with truth or factVeracity

Technology Driven Change

Geo

LocationTime

EventActivity

The process of developing actionable information based on the application of statistical models and analysis against existing and/or simulated future data

Data Analytics

Why does this matter?

Safety is KEY and taking the

human out of the loop

reduces risk to life and limb

Utilities look to reduce costs

and risk

These digital technologies

can assist in internal

compliance monitoring

programs

All these technologies are

“easy to use”

Percieved Low cost

Why Does This Matter?

Data without intelligence

and information without analytics

is like Groundhog Day

Repeat the Life Cycle –The Mapping Mantra

Deliver data, points, pixels, lines

Repeat on an annual basis (hopefully)

Hoping for a Change