With about 55,000 transmission substations in the U.S. and the average age of the transformers in these substations over 40 years old, many substations are going to be refurbished, retrofitted, extended or upgraded. Utilities are […]
Deep learning is increasingly finding practical applications using geospatial data, specifically, satellite imagery. At the GeoIgnite conference in Ottawa, Nicolas Martinez of Statistics Canada described a project scheduled to kick-off in July to use machine […]
With FAA rules permitting beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) UAVs available through Part 107 waivers the cost of capturing the data required for vegetation management for power lines, whether transmission or distribution, could drop […]
Point clouds are fine for visualization to provide context, but to be really useful they need to be classified. Feature extraction, as the process is often referred to, is currently a mostly manual process that […]