State of Drone Technology for Surveying

Andrew Carey is the Remote Sensing Solutions Manager at CompassDrone. Passionate about surveying and mapping challenges, he strives to incorporate innovative technologies and datasets, resulting in quality solutions that provide practical business application and enhance decision-making ability. Over the past 7 years, Andrew has worked with clients on the leading edge of new field data collection systems and methodologies, which has led him to employ a consultative approach in promoting solutions that will improve quality, maximize efficiency, and streamline access to the data within their current business operations.

Brooks Allwardt is an Enterprise Services Manager with DroneDeploy and specializes in helping organizations create effective drone operations systems to manage their program. His engineering background and extensive experience in operations has allowed him the opportunity to standardize operating procedures and manage drone pilots across all genres of customers. Brooks’s passion is in helping customers find all of the value opportunities of drones in a consistent, safe, and compliant manner. A Part 107 pilot himself, Brooks grew up in the midwest and first honed his drone flying skills making waterskiing and wakeboarding videos of his friends during the summertime.  When he is not flying Brooks enjoys reading, traveling, learning new geospatial information and is recognized in some small circles as a ping pong champion.