Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Bluesky is rolling out nationwide coverage of its pioneering Solar Suitability Map. By mapping the potential for power generation using solar panels on roofs, the Solar Map is designed to identify optimum properties for solar power; helping to achieve renewable energy targets and reduce soaring energy costs. Bluesky has seen a growing demand for its
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Bassetlaw Council, Nottinghamshire, UK has commissioned a night-time thermal survey to help address fuel poverty and provide better detail on private housing stock across the district. Using a new thermal mapping system aerial surveying company Bluesky will record highly accurate measurements of relative heat loss from individual buildings delivering a property level digital map for
Friday, December 10th, 2010
An aircraft fitted with specially developed survey equipment is taking to the skies over Britain’s cities at night. Using a new super-sensitive thermal sensor Leicestershire based aerial mapping company Bluesky is capturing highly accurate measurements of heat loss from buildings. The results of these night-time thermal surveys will provide Local Authorities, energy providers and even
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Aerial mapping specialist Bluesky has signed up to the ESRI (UK) Partners and Alliance Programme as a Data Partner. Bringing together one of the UK’s leading aerial survey and derived data companies with the largest pool of GIS expertise in the UK the partnership between Bluesky and ESRI (UK) will maximise the potential of each
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
A computer-generated map of Manchester’s urban trees has been created by aerial mapping company Bluesky. The first project of its type in the world, the 3D map is helping authorities across Manchester understand the impact of urban trees on the environment, public health and the aesthetic qualities of the region. Derived from recent aerial photography
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
Following an exclusive agreement between aerial survey specialist Bluesky and Getmapping the original images that make up the Millennium Map will now be available from www.oldaerialphotos.com. Billed at the time as a modern day equivalent of the Domesday Book the Millennium Map was the first commercial countrywide survey and is credited with the popularisation of
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Aerial survey specialist Bluesky has launched a new cost effective way to obtain irrefutable evidence for use in boundary disputes and other land based disputes or studies. Priced at just £175 the OldAerialPhotos Photopack contains two digital image files; one archive aerial photograph of a location in the past and a corresponding image from the
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Computer-generated 3D city models from Bluesky are helping Mott MacDonald deliver safe, sustainable and user-friendly civil infrastructure projects. The highly accurate and detailed models are being used by the worldwide consultancy to give a better understanding of the wind environment around urban infrastructure projects. By creating highly complex engineering models Mott MacDonald simulates the flow
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Bluesky has added more than 100,000 aerial photographs to its online collection of historically important images following an agreement with Land & Property Services (Northern Ireland) to supply the entire Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland photographic archive. The newly available archive includes complete countrywide coverage from 2002 onwards together with a vast array of mainly
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Aerial survey specialist Bluesky is developing what is thought to be the UK’s first maps of solar energy potential. Created using a variety of high accuracy height data the 3D maps will identify homes and other buildings with roofs that may be suitable for mounting solar panels to generate renewable energy. Bluesky already has access
