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
Digital Sensor & Airborne GPS Systems
- Leica ADS80-SH82 Airborne Digital Sensor with internal Inertial Measurement Unit, Leica PAV30/80 gyro-stabilized mount, and Leica Flight Control Management System (FCMS) (calibration report)
Camera & Airborne GPS Systems
- Jena LMK model 1015 with 6" precision lens, forward image motion compensation, video monitor, gyro-stabilized mount, current USGS calibrations (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
- High-performance Digital Photogrammetric Softcopy Workstations
- Multiple Vector/DTM Edit, Image Processing GIS/CAD Workstations
Flight Processing Software
- Leica XPro Digital Sensor Processing Software
- Leica IPAS IMU Post Processing Software
- IGI AEROoffice IMU Post Processing Software
- Novtel GrafNav GPS Post Processing Software
Aerotriangulation & Digital Mapping Software
- Leica ORIMA Aerotriangulation Software
- Z/I Image Station Aerial Triangulation (ISAT)
- OrthoMapper
- Boeing Kork Digital Mapping System (KDMS) ∓ KorkTran Translators
- Cardinal Systems VR Softcopy Mapping System
- TerraModel
- Autocad, MicroStation, ESRI ArcView, ER Mapper, Orthovista
- MrSID Image Compression Software is used to produce high-quality, compressed imagery
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 & Computers
- 10Mbps cable connection to the internet and host the company’s own mail, FTP, and web servers (21TB)
- 6GB/s aggregate network backbone
- 10 GB/s High Performance dedicated storage / processing network
- 4 Sun x2250 servers for processing (Dual Quad Core Intel Xeon Processors/1600 HMZ FSB/10K Western Digital Velociraptor Hard Drives/Dual Intel 10 GB CX4 Network Adapters)
- High-speed 64-bit processing servers are utilized for multi-threaded applications
