Miscellaneous | Seiler GeoDrones

Using a Drone for Gas Line Inspection?

Is it possible to use an aircraft instead of a team of earthbound inspectors to check a gas line for leaks?Last week Seiler Instrument was in Illinois demonstrating how it’s possible to get off the ground and examine hundreds …

Are Drones Accurate?

Are Drones Accurate? – For the common photogrammetry workflow, surveyors can count on accuracy of between 1 and 3 times the ground sample distance within the imagery collected by the drone. This is to say 1-3x the distance between …

Seiler Office Modelled with Drone

Seiler Instrument Corporate Headquarters Modelled with Drone By Eric P. Seiler The Seiler Instrument Emerging Tech team collected aerial data from their 7 acre headquarters site in Kirkwood Missouri. Using a DJI Matrice 200 Series Drone, the building was captured …

Press Release: Seiler Instrument partners with GeoSLAM!

Seiler Instrument recently announced the latest edition to its Geospatial Emerging Technologies Portfolio – The GeoSLAM Zeb-Revo. The GeoSLAM Zeb-Revo is a lightweight, revolving laser scanner. Handheld, pole-mounted, or attached onto your chosen mobile platform such as a vehicle or …

Top FAQ’s on UAS/Drones (Part 2)

With the explosion of the drone market or the more formal term, unmanned aircraft systems, we asked Travis LeMoine, our Emerging Tech Director and Drone expert to put together the following FAQ’s.1. What locations are restricted from flight?In …

Top FAQ’s on UAS/Drones (Part 1)

With the explosion of the drone market or the more formal term, unmanned aircraft systems, we asked Travis LeMoine, our Emerging Tech Director and Drone expert to put together the following FAQ’s. 1. Is a pilot’s license still required …

Part Two in Webinar Series – UAS/Drone Sensors and Payloads

For those that missed our second webinar in our series – UAS/ Drone Sensors & Payloads- Part 2 Here is the link to view – Click Here to register and view webinar. The webinar was an overview regarding UAS (drone) …

FAA Announces New Regs for Drones

The FAA has announced new regulations today regarding UAVs and drones (to be in effect in 60 days). We’re excited for the coming changes to allow a much less cumbersome process to safe UAS flights. Please see the links below …

Seiler Instrument Receives Section 333 Exemption to Commercially Fly Trimble UAS

We’re very excited to announce we received our commercial exemption from the FAA to allow Seiler Instrument to fly Trimble UAS. Our exemption will authorize us to fly either the UX5 or the more recent UX5 HP. This is a …

Seiler pleased to offer no cost guidance to customers interested in acquiring UAS exemptions

Often, we find that customers are troubled by the time and cost to file for their own exemptions to legally fly a UAS. We are pleased that we can now offer guidance for our customers in this process. We are …