UAS & Geosptial John Palatiello Executive Director Virginia Association of Surveyors Chester, VA September 30, 2015

Expressing the sense of the VGIN Advisory Board that imagery and geospatial data is essential to commercial and governmental activities, the collection, storage and use of which, including through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) can and should be permitted and encouraged for the benefit of the citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia VGIN Resolution

About Geospatial $73 billion market Drives more than $1 trillion in economic activity

About Geospatial More than 500,000 American jobs are related to the collection, storage and dissemination of imagery and geospatial data Another 5.3 million workers utilize such data

About Geospatial As much as 90 percent of government information has a geospatial information component Up to 80 percent of the information managed by business is connected to a specific location

About Geospatial Identified by the Department of Labor as 1 of just 14 high growth sectors of the United States workforce

About Geospatial “photogrammetry” and “remote sensing” are considered “surveying” in Virginia, requiring performance by a licensed professional land surveyor/ surveyor-photogrammetrist Code of Virginia § et. seq.

Aerial Imagery & Geospatial Data E911 dispatching of police personnel, fire trucks, emergency medical technicians, and ambulances

Aerial Imagery & Geospatial Data Precision agriculture

Aerial Imagery & Geospatial Data Topographic mapping Water resources Zoning, land use & planning

Aerial Imagery & Geospatial Data Routing Navigation Engineering design

Aerial Imagery & Geospatial Data Contributes to quality of life Provides a societal benefit

UAS Aerial Surveying, Mapping, Imagery mentioned in FAA 2013 “Roadmap” Geospatial firms among first to receive section 333 waiver/exemptions Services/applications mentioned in NPRM

Technology UAS technology will revolutionize aerial surveying and mapping like no other Extraordinary amount of RDT&E going into aircraft, sensors, integration, and applications A “tool in the toolbox” to supplement manned aircraft and satellites

NPRM Existing technology does provide a way to resolve the “see and avoid” + using the Master Restricted Flight Area Database and existing wireless technologies + Definition of “populated area” is inadequate and seems to mean “any single person within the area of operation that is not inside a structure”.

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