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that will offer that type of service.”
As Kucera navigates the future of the aerial imaging indus-
try, Antalovich outlines some of the company’s long-term
goals. One is to get more involved as a direct contractor
for the federal government by increasing its size and sales
volume. Because of the way federal contracts are award-
ed, medium-sized companies, such as Kucera, generally
only get hired as part of a larger team. “So we’d like to get
to the size and capability where we’d be able to be a prime
contractor for a federal government contract,” Antalovich
states.
“Another goal is to maintain the diversity of services and
technology that we have because it’s made us more
unique. We have six aircraft and six different kinds of
sensors; most companies don’t have that many differ-
ent kinds of sensors. And we’d even like to expand upon
the different types of sensing technologies that we use.
The market for some of these systems is still emerging,
so we anticipate that there is going to be a demand for
other types of aerial sense data and the processing that
goes behind them to extract usable data. We’re also look-
ing at some type of land-based geographic data collection
systems – they call it mobile mapping, where you drive
along and collect information from the top of a car or a
van. And then you can integrate that with aerial data. And
then there are certain types of indoor scanning systems
that you can do to scan the inside of a facility. So you can
go from the air above, all the way inside a facility without
actually having to step into it.”
Kucera International is a company that was born of one
man’s love of flying and then nurtured by leaders who had
the vision to perceive, design, and ultimately provide the
many commercial applications that its customers desire
and need. “We’re involved in a unique business and we
have unique capabilities within our business,” says Anta-
lovich, summing up. “The data that we produce is useful in
a variety of ways and we offer a variety of capabilities that
are applicable to many different types of organizations.
We have the ability to get to places fast and provide fast
data turnaround. As far as being able to monitor some-
thing from the air, the faster you can produce usable data
after you’ve done the acquisition, the better. And one of
the trends in our field is ‘right from the air to the client.’
Everybody wants something yesterday; you fly over a site
and you just turn the data set over to the client right there
after it’s collected. We haven’t quite gotten to that point
yet, but it’s getting very close.”
With its ongoing dedication to its mission of providing the
highest level of customer service satisfaction, and as a
recognized leader in the field of aerial imagery, there’s no
doubt that Kucera International will be getting to that point
much sooner than the rest of the flock.
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