This event has been postponed until Thursday, May 27th, 2021 at 12:00pm. 

Sky Analytics Inc. will be giving a live demonstration of drone LiDAR data capture technology and its applications for urban planning and design. Daniels MLA grad and Sky Analytics CEO Jamie Reford and his colleague Adrian Kudzma will provide an overview of drone LiDAR data collection and processing workflows, highlighting some of the critical factors involved in conducting drone operations. Following this brief introduction, the Sky Analytics team will conduct a live drone LiDAR operation, providing a full safety and mission planning briefing before mapping 1 Spadina Crescent. Expect the demo to take approximately 20 minutes. A Q&A session will follow the demo, where students and staff will have the opportunity to ask the Sky Analytics team questions about drone data capture and its various use cases. The resultant dataset will be made available to the Daniels Faculty once it has been fully processed. We hope to see you there! 

Sky Analytics Inc.  -  Jamie Reford launched Sky Analytics Inc. after graduating from the U of T Daniels MLA program in 2019. Leveraging the accelerating data capture potential of UAVs and associated payloads, Jamie and the Sky Analytics team are focused on optimizing the resilience, efficiency, and value of digital design tools through the integration of scalable UAV/AV spatial data capture, processing, and output workflows. Adrian Kudzma is a partner at Sky Analytics Inc. and a co-founder of Altitude Geospatial Inc. Adrian has over a decade of experience working with global leaders in the LIDAR space. He has travelled around the world in this capacity, helping clients streamline their LiDAR collection and processing workflows. Adrian now works predominantly with UAV LiDAR platforms, seeing this as the future of detailed mapping applications.