This is a guest post from Keith Perry, founder of Hudson Valley Drones. Keith is an instructor in the free course, “Solar + Drones: Managing Lighting, Exposure, and Glare in Your Imagery“. In a previous post, Keith offered up a… Continue reading “How to Take Better Solar Pictures With Your Drone”
New Solar + Drones Course – Managing Lighting, Exposure, and Glare in Your Imagery
Creating awesome drone-based 3D models (i.e. photogrammetry) relies on images having similar key points and coloring. This is particularly crucial for accurately designing and analyzing solar projects. A foundational component of this is capturing data with good “exposure”. Join us… Continue reading “New Solar + Drones Course – Managing Lighting, Exposure, and Glare in Your Imagery”
“Solar + Drones: Site Surveying and 3D Mapping Around Trees” – A New Free Course for Solar Companies Using Drones
Flying around trees is the #1 biggest challenge facing solar companies that use drones. So Scanifly, Northwest Drone Pros, Hudson Valley Drones, and HeatSpring are collaborating on a new free course: “Solar + Drones: Site Surveying and 3D Mapping around Trees“… Continue reading ““Solar + Drones: Site Surveying and 3D Mapping Around Trees” – A New Free Course for Solar Companies Using Drones”
New Free Course: Drones, 3D Mapping and LiDAR in Solar
We’re really excited to announce our partnership with Scanifly software. They’ve released a new free course that helps solar companies understand how drones can be used to improve operations and lower the cost of delivering solar. The 76-minute lecture talks… Continue reading “New Free Course: Drones, 3D Mapping and LiDAR in Solar”
Getting Started: Your First Day Flying a Drone
“Liz got the hang of things immediately so I envision a long and illustrious Part 107 career for her!” – Instructor Keven Gambold Liz is starting the Drone Pilot Boot Camp in a few weeks, but she had a chance… Continue reading “Getting Started: Your First Day Flying a Drone”
How Drones Reduce the Cost of Solar
Many solar companies employ an in-house drone pilot. Why? Because drones lower the cost of design, installation, inspections and maintenance in solar projects of all sizes. They can help save a lot of money on big projects, and a little… Continue reading “How Drones Reduce the Cost of Solar”
New Drone Pilot Training Program Builds Skills for the Renewable Energy Industry
This release originally appeared on PR Fire The new “Drone Pilot Boot Camp + FAA Part 107 Exam Prep” is a collaboration between three companies: HeatSpring, Little Arms, and Unmanned Experts. They’ve built this unmanned aircract commercial operations course especially… Continue reading “New Drone Pilot Training Program Builds Skills for the Renewable Energy Industry”
NEW COURSE: Drone Pilot Boot Camp + Part 107 Exam Prep
HeatSpring’s Drone Pilot Boot Camp is a course for engineers, contractors, building professionals and renewable energy companies to become experienced, licensed drone pilots. A drone is a tool to generate new revenue by doing asset inspections, site surveys, mapping, marketing… Continue reading “NEW COURSE: Drone Pilot Boot Camp + Part 107 Exam Prep”