Tag: Geospatial

Mapping Acquisition Flights Cover 43 Wisconsin Counties in 45 Days

On Thursday the final flight lines of the Wisconsin Regional Orthophotography Consortium (WROC) 2015 program were flown, and that means some really useful mapping and data will be on its way to more than 100 clients across Wisconsin by the end of the year. The WROC contractor team of Ayres Associates and Quantum Spatial deployed… Read More »

Sleigh Bells Ring, Are You Tracking?

For the past 50 years, kids have been able to keep tabs on Santa during his delivery route thanks to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) team. While this is undoubtedly excellent and very useful information, we wondered how exactly Santa knows where to stop once he’s loaded up that sleigh and checked his… Read More »

Chicago Area Geospatial Mapping is a Study in Coordination

To say the airspace over Chicago is busy and complex would be an understatement. That fact was realized nationwide in late September after a fire in an air traffic control center forced thousands of flight cancellations and threw commercial air travel into disarray for more than two weeks. Ayres Associates’ geospatial mapping specialists are fully… Read More »