UAV Surveying
Expert Guidance in the Face of New Dam Regulations
This article was featured in Business Rural Autumn 2023. With new dam legislation coming into effect next year, landowners with significant water bodies or structures on their property will need to be prepared. These regulations aim to prevent dam failures, which could have devastating consequences for communities downstream. New dam legislation requires landowners to take…
Read MoreUAV LiDAR Takes Pole Position in Project to Model the Rodin Cars Racing Test Track
Driving along the remote Inland Kaikōura Road near Mt Lyford, the idyllic rural scenery is interrupted by the manicured grounds of a large sealed motor racing circuit. This is Wandle Downs, the home of high-performance racing car builders Rodin Cars, whose production facility and 3 stage test track sprawls over nearly 60ha of former farmland.…
Read MoreFrom the Top of Mountains to the Bottom of Rivers; How Fox and Associates is Leading an Evolution in Professional Surveying
In 1873, the HMS Challenger set out on a 3-year expedition to map the seabed of what is now known as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. More than 500 plumb measurements (a plumb attached to a cable is dropped to the sea floor) were acquired to create one of the first bathymetric maps. While an extraordinary feat…
Read MoreEstablishing new walking routes in Canterbury
Helping to establish new public walkways in CanterburyLike many kiwis, the team at Fox & Associates are enthusiastic about the great outdoors, be it hunting, stand-up paddleboarding, tramping or simply walking. We are always keen to do work in our playground and so we are excited to be helping to establish new public access routes…
Read MoreAnd the winners are… | NZSEA Technical Excellence Awards
NZSEA Technical Excellence Award Winners 2019A highlight of 2019 was our win at the NZ Spatial Excellence Awards. We are the proud recipients of the Technical Excellence Award for aerial mapping for disease detection in potato crops. Thanks to the Fox Team, our client Resson and to the NZSEA for this phenomenal award! To learn…
Read MoreUAV LiDAR – making the invisible visible!
Imagine discovering ancient Mayan cities hidden for centuries beneath dense foliage in the northern jungles of Guatemala. Sounds like a scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. But thanks to a remote sensing and mapping technology called LiDAR (short for Light Detection and Ranging), archaeologists were able to digitally remove the thick Guatemalan…
Read MoreLegacy Series: Taiora QEII Recreation and Sport Centre
Taiora QEII Recreation and Sports Centre is a new facility built on the site of the original and much loved QEII stadium and pools. These were originally built for the 1974 Commonwealth Games but were destroyed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. The new centre includes a 25m competition pool with an innovative moveable floor, learn…
Read MoreThe Future is UAV
The Future is UAV Our recent UAV seminar was popular with engineers keen to learn how our UAV technology combined with our terrestrial solutions could solve their data challenges. Presented by Carl Fox, General Manager and Chief UAV Pilot, the seminar covered a range of topics including: Workplace Health & Safety – accessing dangerous, inaccessible…
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