Skybox, Velodyne LiDAR and 3DR Robotics drones
Last week's GeoMeetup went well.
This time, our friends at SlidesLive were kind enough to record the three presentations and put them up:
Wolfgang Juchmann (Velodyne LiDAR) brought a LiDAR sensor that displayed realtime point clouds and showed some demos of projects where people were using LiDAR. Just a heads-up: there was a minor conflict between the slide-recorder and the OpenGL software used by the LiDAR sensor, so the realtime nature of the point cloud is not displayed accurately.
Brandon Basso (3DR Robotics) showed how low-cost UAVs/drones are currently being used by farmers to improve crops.
Oliver Guinan (Skybox) talked about possibilities that are enabled when having several low-cost micro-satellites.
And of course, beer.
If you are ever in SF, and you are into geospatial topics, you should check out the GeoMeetup or sign up for the GeoMeetup Discussion List.