The UltraCam team recently visited Ramani Geosystems, a Kenya–based geospatial services firm that offers land surveying, aerial photography, aerial LiDAR and mapping services throughout Africa and an UltraCam customer since 2012. Ramani Geosystems wanted to be able to take on larger projects and find a better way to capture high-resolution images in East Africa’s tricky weather and lighting conditions.
In October 2012, the company purchased the Microsoft UltraCamX, becoming the first company in East Africa with a large-format digital aerial, for use in its aerial projects and now can tackle large projects, delivering superior imagery, greater flight and processing efficiency, and faster service to customers. While there, the team interviewed Ramani’s Managing Director Daniel Haywood, Vincent Kimaiyo, the Head of Air Operations and Boniface Mworia, the Head of Data Management. The result is a fifth installment in our series of “I Fly UltraCam” videos and written case studies.
See the feature video and read the case study:
Visit www.iFlyUltraCam.com
Read interview excerpts not included in the video or written case study:
Visit the UltraCam Blog: http://ultracam.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/ramani-geosystems-i-fly-ultracam/
About Microsoft’s UltraCam Business Unit
With its operations based in Graz, Austria, and sales and support teams in North America, Microsoft’s UltraCam business unit brings more than two decades of photogrammetry expertise to Microsoft’s Bing Maps business unit. The division is responsible for the highly successful line of UltraCam digital aerial mapping systems that today include the UltraCamLp, UltraCam Falcon, and UltraCam Eagle digital photogrammetric sensors, and the UltraCam Osprey nadir/oblique photogrammetric digital aerial sensor. Rounding out the UltraCam offerings is the fully integrated UltraMap workflow software system, with features that include high-density 3D point cloud creation, highly accurate and detailed digital surface model (DSM) generation, and ortho mosaicing capabilities based on an automatically generated DSM or traditional DSM.
About Microsoft
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About Ramani Geosystems
Ramani Geosystems is a geospatial services firm offering professional land surveying, aerial photography, aerial LiDAR, GIS and mapping services. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Ramani is dedicated to providing high quality services throughout Africa. Its clients represent a wide range of industry sectors, including government agencies and private companies. Ramani uses leading edge technologies and owns two aircraft, large and medium format aerial cameras and a LiDAR scanner. For more information go to www.ramani.co.ke or contact Daniel Haywood at [email protected] or +254 (20) 6002035.
