Introducing our wonderful new sponsors Emesent who have been heavily involved with the Space poster providing extra prints for Australia! Let’s learn some more about them:
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Company Name Emesent
- Location Brisbane, Australia
- Why is it important for your company to help Get Kids into Survey?
Surveying is essential to so many parts of our world and impacts many industries, often in ways that most people don’t fully appreciate. There is a diverse range of surveying jobs that cross many different skills and work environments. We believe that encouraging the next generation of surveyors is critical to our future, both in Australia and globally. Educating young people about the power of surveying, the incredible technology available, and the different ways surveying is used, will contribute to the enhancement of our world.
- What do you do?
Emesent makes an advanced LiDAR (Light detection and ranging) scanner called Hovermap that helps surveyors autonomously map difficult-to-access environments. Hovermap captures detailed 3D maps called point clouds. Point clouds can be used by surveyors in construction, mining, forestry and many other industries – even space! – to better understand and then make decisions about the environments they are working in.
- How long have you been in the survey industry?
Emesent was founded in 2017
- State a funny fact about you…
Emesent staff where once invited to appear on a ghost hunting TV show to use Hovermap to see if we could identify a ghost!
- Favourite piece of kit and why?
Emesent Hovermap ST-X is of course our favourite piece of kit. As well as using it hand-held, you can attach it to a car, robot or drone. It has a variety of accessories that can be attached to it also.
- Favourite Survey technique and why?
Flying Hovermap on a drone is our favourite way to capture survey data. But anyone can get started by using Hovermap handheld or in a backpack.
- Your website: www.emesent.com
- How did you choose the character and what does he/she/it represent? Mean to you? What’s his/her name?
This is Billie the Hover-Bat. The character is inspired by a local ‘bat’ called a flying fox. In summer, these animals go looking for fruit and berries, flying across the sky at dawn and dusk. We chose it because Hovermap is commonly flown on a drone – often underground into inaccessible and dark spaces.