{"id":1325,"date":"2019-03-05T19:19:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T02:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2019-03-05T19:19:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T02:19:29","slug":"standalone-uav-lidar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/?p=1325","title":{"rendered":"Standalone UAV Lidar"},"content":{"rendered":"

A surveying company developed a self-contained UAV lidar system so teams could gather data without a lidar specialist.<\/h2>\n
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Some companies are born (and some are transformed) when their founders switch their focus from using a tool for projects to developing that tool and selling it.<\/p>\n

An example is the GIS giant Esri, which, for its first dozen years of existence, used the then-nascent technology of computational geography to perform analyses while advancing the tools with each project. In 1981 Esri switched to building GIS as a product for other people to use.<\/p>\n

Likewise, the surveyors and geomatics specialists at the French aerial mapping services company L\u2019Avion Jaune (\u201cThe Yellow Airplane\u201d) spent 13 years pioneering UAV surveying, then they realized that there was a market for UAV-based lidar solutions.<\/p>\n

When the leaders at L\u2019Avion Jaune needed a lightweight and compact UAV lidar, they started an internal R&D project and developed the Mapper I. Then in 2015, they spun that project out by founding YellowScan SAS. (In turn, the U.S. company\u00a0YellowScan, Inc<\/a>. is a fully-owned subsidiary of YellowScan SAS.)<\/p>\n

The company \u201chas been evolving rapidly and growing very fast,\u201d says Thibaud Capra, an application engineer at YellowScan, Inc. \u201cL\u2019Avion Jaune started with three people, and today YellowScan has more than 30 staff.\u201d<\/p>\n

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