Name: Drone Mapping Best Practices through AI-Based Feature Extraction
Start: 2026-10-12T15:00:00-0500
End: 2026-10-12T16:45:00-0500

Welcome to GIS-Pro 2026 in Milwaukee! The Geospatial Professional Network is thrilled to partner with the Wisconsin Land Information Association for this event. This is where you will find the comprehensive program agenda, speaker profiles, and sponsor directory. Registration and additional conference information are located here.

Drone Mapping Best Practices through AI-Based Feature Extraction

Monday October 12, 2026 3:00pm - 4:45pm CDT

Walker, 4th Floor

In this session, best practices to plan photogrammetry and LiDAR missions for sUAS mapping will be discussed. This includes flight planning including site research, mission planning, and field procedure. This technical short course will also include an overview of the differences in processing LiDAR data versus photogrammetry processing and will conclude with AI-based feature extraction and other techniques to create a map including surfaces and contour lines.

Keyworks: sUAS, drone, mapping, survey, AI, point cloud, orthoimage, dem, tin, contour, LiDAR, photogrammetry, sensor, GNSS, GPS

Luis Rojas, Civil Engineer, Part-107 sUAS pilot, Regional Sales Director, Carlson Software, Dubuque, IA

Attendance at technical short courses is included with full conference registration and pre-registration is not required. Note that seats are available on a first-come/first-served basis.

Speakers

Luis Rojas, Part-107 sUAS pilot

Regional Sales Director, Carlson Software

Luis Rojas is a Civil Engineer who has been in the land development industry for over 25 years, where he has
supported, trained, and helped adopt mobile, desktop, and field solutions for hundreds of organizations and users in the Architectural, Engineering, and Construction (AECO) industry around the world. Some of the applications that he has implemented include Carlson, Civil 3D, Revit... Read More →

Monday October 12, 2026 3:00pm - 4:45pm CDT
Walker, 4th Floor

Technical Short Course

GIS-Pro 2026

Luis Rojas, Part-107 sUAS pilot

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