Faced with trying to serve a growing community with outdated orthophotos and GIS data, we started to explore options that were accurate, versatile, and extremely cost effective. Looking at our options we settled on the enormous task of starting up our own Unmanned Aerial Vehicle division. Skip ahead short two years later and we were up and flying. This presentation is not about rules and regulations (that is a whole other presentation), but rather what we needed to do to get internal approval and support, how we selected our platform, and the various ways we are utilizing this technology at the City of Muskego.
