Developing geospatial, visual AI for analyzing drone imagery in construction and mining sites

ARA Robotique Inc是加拿大无人机技术的领导者，提供最高标准的空中机器人技术，旨在实现前所未有的信心，可靠性和性能。他们不断创新，开发未来的机器人技术并将其整合到产品和流程中。Chaac Technologies Inc是一家创新驱动的加拿大企业，提供尖端技术，以优化无人机现场操作的每个阶段，从数据收集到数据管理和分析。通过应用研究和开发，他们的目标是使无人机技术更经济实惠，更强大，更容易在建筑和采矿等民用部门应用，并确保在每次操作中提供无与伦比的性能和一致性。将无人机集成到民用应用中的一个重大挑战与数据有关：缺乏数据收集标准，将大量原始数据转换为简明可解释信息的数据分析复杂性，以及在数据驱动信息集成到决策过程之前的长时间延迟。应对这些挑战是本项目的主要目标。魁北克地理中心（CGQ）将协助ARA和Chaac开发一个自动化平台，利用人工智能（AI）提升的无人机技术处理和分析现场数据。该平台特别针对建筑和采矿部门进行施工进度监测、预测性库存分析和现场安全评估。该解决方案将使ARA和Chaac能够提高其在航空数据分析领域的领先专业知识，在建筑和采矿领域提供独特的技术，并满足各种无人机测绘流程和产品的要求。

ARA Robotique Inc is a Canadian leader in delivering drone technology with the highest standards in aerial robotics designed for unprecedented confidence, reliability, and performance. They constantly innovate by developing and integrating the robotics of tomorrow into their products and processes. Chaac Technologies Inc is an innovation-driven Canadian enterprise that delivers cutting-edge technologies to optimize every stage of drone-based field operations, from data collection to data management and analytics. Together, through applied research-and-development, they aim to make drone technology more affordable, robust, and easier to apply across civil sectors, such as construction and mining, with the assurance to deliver unparalleled performance and consistency in every operation. One of the significant challenges of integrating drones in civil applications is related to data: lack of standards for data collection, complexity of data analysis for converting the overwhelming volume of raw data to concise interpretable information, as well as long delays before the data-driven information can be integrated to the process of decision making. Tackling these challenges is the main objective of this project. Centre de géomatique du Québec (CGQ) will assist ARA and Chaac to develop an automated platform for processing and analyzing field data using drone technology elevated by the power of artificial intelligence (AI). This platform, particularly, targets the construction and mining sectors for earthwork progress monitoring, predictive inventory analysis, and site safety assessment. This solution will enable ARA and Chaac to improve their leading expertise in the field of aerial data analytics, to offer a unique technology in the domains of construction and mining, and to meet the requirements of a large variety of drone-mapping processes and products.