Author: Dr Karen Joyce

Drone Data Processing

Multispectral drone mapping unpacked

While multispectral imaging may have been developed as a military surveillance technique, these days its benefits are far more wide ranging. From Earth observation sensors on satellites to laboratory based systems, they can be deployed to detect, identify, and measure features invisible to the human eye at a variety of scales. Let’s look at how

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Drone Data Processing

Ground control points (GCPs) can enhance your drone mapping accuracy

Wanting to make decisions using your drone mapping data? If so, understanding your location precision and accuracy is paramount, and ground control points – GCPs – might be your answer. As aerial surveys become increasingly integral to various industries, ensuring accuracy in data processing and location information is essential. Let’s delve into the significance of

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aerial view of a flooded footbridge vertically taken from a drone
Case Studies

Detecting change with drones – a Cyclone Jasper case study

In a recent lunch and learn webinar we explored the role of drone mapping in detecting environmental change. Here I’ll revisit the highlights of the webinar, diving into the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Jasper and examine how comprehensive datasets can reshape disaster response strategies. Tropical Cyclone Jasper threatened the far north Queensland region, providing an

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satellite image of a hurricane
Case Studies

Data readiness for disaster management

In the midst of preparing for an impending weather event, the urgency of readiness becomes a focal point. It’s not just about sandbagging or securing property—it’s also about data readiness. Our recent webinar on remote sensing and drone mapping in disaster management touched upon this critical aspect. Let’s delve deeper into how remote sensing, encompassing

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Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

How to fast track your drone mapping analysis with keyboard shortcuts

There’s no doubt about it – drone mapping analysis and manually digitising a map can be a tedious task! But let’s not make it harder than it needs to be. At GeoNadir we are constantly looking for ways to simplify data processing and analysis workflows, so introducing keyboard shortcuts was a no-brainer for us. They

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Learn and Inspire

Why is snapping important for creating accurate maps?

What do crocodiles and GeoNadir projects have in common? We both love snapping! But of course in vastly different ways 🙂 When we snap as part of creating insights with our drone mapping data, this is a good thing. Not something to be afraid of!  So what is snapping, and how can it help us

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Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

The top 10 environmental uses for drone 3D models

Most of us are familiar with the concept of 3D. It’s the difference between old school classic cartoons like Tom and Jerry and modern animation like Toy Story. It’s how our brain processes vision from both our eyes to give us depth perception. If our vision left to right is considered as two dimensions, the

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3d drone mapping view of Tucson, Arizona
Drone Data Processing

3D drone models and the end of the rainbow

Contents There’s no lack of ‘wow’ when viewing aerial drone footage as photos or videos. But the awe in awesome doesn’t stop there! Our flying tripod friends are also incredible data collection and mapping tools. We use drones to capture information about all sorts of different environments, with detail far greater than you’ll see on

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Getting ready to drone map
Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

How to make an accurate and useful drone map

Keen to go beyond spectacular aerial photography or videography with your drone? Look no further! It’s time to develop a new skill and learn to drone map. With the right equipment and some careful planning, creating a map of your local ecosystems is super easy. It allows you to see how the environment changes over

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Drone mapping image of a school with lots of coloured rooftops, shade sails, trees, and an oval
Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

School mapping competition uses GeoNadir

How cool is your local school? For the fifth year running, our sister company She Maps is searching for the coolest school with their annual school mapping competition. They’re challenging students of all ages to calculate the amount of tree-shade on their school campus, opening discussions about cooling, urban heat, landscape design, and climate change.

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Artificial Intelligence

Can you use MetaAI’s tool ‘Segment Anything’ for drone imagery?

Move over ChatGPT, there’s a new AI kid on the block! Just this week MetaAI released a new tool called ‘Segment Anything’ (Meta is best known as the Facebook parent company). And it’s unleashed the same fears and excitement as many tech tools before it. As someone who has been segmenting Earth observation imagery for

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Aerial drone image of a creek with deep red sands, coastal vegetation, and sand dunes
Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

How to share insights from drone mapping data

As humans we like to simplify reality. To take complex systems or ideas and break them down into digestible, communicable chunks. It’s why we classify the Earth as ‘land’ and ‘water’. But the Earth is infinitely complex, as is the drone data that we capture about it. So how can we decomplicate things and make

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Learn and Inspire

What is the benefit of building a circular data economy?

Over the years we’ve become accustomed to reusing, recycling, and upcycling a wide variety of different products and materials. At the same time, a greater awareness of the health and environmental impacts of practices such as fast food and fast fashion have also led calls for more sustainable ways of living. Collectively, this opens discussions

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Drone Data Processing

What is the best online drone mapping software?

You’ve bought your drone and are keen to get into mapping your local ecosystems. Or maybe you’re still pondering the best drone for your application. Either way, you’ll need to make a choice – do you go with online drone mapping software, or a desktop package? If you have a high end computer with a

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drone image of carrie bow cay
Drone Data Processing

Drone mapping an isolated reef in the Caribbean

People often ask me what inspired me to create GeoNadir. To be honest, first and foremost it was selfish intention to make my life easier. Since 2013 I have amassed a huge amount of drone mapping data, and I’ve always had the problem of how to store, process, and share it in a simple workflow.

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Yellow water billabong, Kakakdu National Park
Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

Mapping with the IUCN habitat classification scheme

We create maps to simplify reality. To tell stories about the complex world around us in easily understandable ways. One of the ways in which we do this is to create discrete categories, and assign different features into these categories. For example, we may want to create a map of the different types of habitat

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Three people gathered around a mobile device looking very excited
Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

Our ten best GeoNadir enhancements from 2022

In 2022 we were hugely fortunate to receive some funding through the Australian Government’s Boosting Female Founders Initiative that supercharged our GeoNadir development roadmap. Here’s our pick of the top ten GeoNadir enhancements that we’ve made to the user interface and user experience. We hope you love them as much as we do! 1. Create

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Person viewing drone imagery on a Dell laptop computer by Harriet Spark/Grumpy Turtle Creative
Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

A ‘Dell-icious’ partnership for GeoNadir

At GeoNadir, we are heavy tech users. Of course there’s the drones, but we can’t forget the laptops, desktops, servers, storage devices, cloud systems etc. that underpin our daily operations. It’s therefore really important to us to connect with other similar businesses as we grow, and one of the reasons why I joined the Dell

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Drone Mapping Tips & Tricks

The Earth from above – Our story in motion

The making of the Earth from above It’s been many months in the making, and we are so excited to share our brand new video. This stunning animation helps tell the story of who we are and why we are here.   At GeoNadir, we are passionate about aligning with brands and people whose values

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open data
Learn and Inspire

Open Data: there’s no such thing as free

For the past 20 years, open data has been rapidly changing the face of earth observation applications and innovations.   Twenty years ago (yikes!) Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson crooned ‘the best things in life are free’ and it seems that Barack Obama agreed. By the end of 2008, the entire archive of Landsat data

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