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is in Pittsburgh, PA; one is in Columbus, OH; and one in
Lakeland, FL. Our geographic scope is predominantly the
United States, but we’ve done a number of projects out-
side of the U.S. – as far away as Poland, South America,
and Canada. We’re worldwide, but we do have a limitation
on where we can go with our aircraft.”
Antalovich explains, in plainer language, just what the
company does on a typical work day: “There are many,
many applications for aerial imagery and mapping servic-
es. They range from very small surveys of very small areas,
for instance, when a company wants a picture of its facility
or a map of the facility for a master plan, or sub-division.
Usually that all starts with a map of the topography. So we
do that type of work. And then we do a lot of work for the
government at different levels, ranging from local and mu-
nicipal government right up to the federal government, for
a wide variety of planning and engineering applications.
For instance, counties and cities do property assessments
using aerial imagery; the federal government uses imag-
ery for flood insurance mapping and crop monitoring. We
do a lot of work for highway infrastructure mapping, as
well.
“For commercial, we do a lot of work for utility companies.
We’ve done numerous energy projects, where we do aerial
mapping of areas where they plan to install wind farms or
transmission line corridors, and then, aerial sensing and
mapping is used to monitor those installations. Recently,
we’ve been involved a lot with natural gas pipeline corri-
dors. So, it really runs the gamut of different types of com-
mercial applications. Mainly, any time somebody is plan-
ning on putting something in that’s infrastructure-related,
or they have existing assets that they are trying to monitor
or want to develop - a lot of that work starts with some type
of a map or some type of image as a reference point, and
basis for the engineering work.”
The company owns and operates six of its own planes,
four of which are twin-engines. “Those are the planes that
are the big workhorses for the organization,” says Antalov-
ich. “We can go pretty far with those planes. And we have
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