Drones are helping to develop niches in all walks of business. Rich Charpentier of RLC Design in Flagstaff, Arizona has traveled many roads in his career. Quite literally as after winding down a career in network and communications infrastructure, Rich hit the road in an Airstream trailer to travel and vlog before it was a thing. The use of a drone to compliment his videography was fundamental in the development of construction progression reporting for companies throughout the sunshine state. Tune in for insight on how developing your videography, mapping skills, and client deliverables can translate to providing competitive and high value services.

We are joining Aaron Kingaman of Lucint Systems of Portland, Oregon. Lucint provides modular multispectral mapping cameras for use on both drones and manned aircraft. In addition to that Lucint provides a variety of services, notably orthorectification, camera calibration, and builds custom camera arrays to suit the agricultural, municipal power, and surveying industries.

Soar is joined by Tayo Akiwumi of Spacevee, specialists at improving image visualisation issues caused by smoke, haze, and airborne particulates. Tayo has a compelling story, how his love of the earth's history and deep desire to utilise remote sensing technology for identifying possible archaeological sites has led to the development of new technology to improve image visualisation and utilisation through haze removal, limiting the effects of smoke and pollution on satellite images, and for textural improvement in featureless images.

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If you love drones, and of course you do, and you love fishing, this Soar Cast is for you. The limits of what you can do with a drone seems endless. Join us as we interview Tony with Ultimate Drone Fishing of Perth Australia and learn how you can solve the age old problem "How can I catch more fish?" With a drone of course!

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The drone photography available on the Soar platform focuses on urban environments and the photographic composition presented by buildings, roads, and other man-made structures which are best viewed from above. Today's Soar Cast focuses on street art as seen from a drone. We're profiling Barry, a street artist based in Fremantle, Western Australia. Barry specialises in floor art: large scale pieces painted on the ground. So tune-in and find out why street art is at it's best when seen from a drone.

Join us for Soar Cast episode 5, our first in-house broadcast where we're interviewing Andrew Dedman of Stratus Imaging - the first company in Western Australia to become government certified for drone swarm operation. It's an exciting step forward for WA's drone industry as these agricultural specific UAV's improve drone operation efficiency and crop yield.

Darren Smith of Soar chats with Ed Ricker, a YouTube veteran delivering instructional drone and videography videos since 2013. Ed has steadily gained traction in the YouTube arena with his most popular video 'Beginners Guide Part 1 - DJI Mavic Pro' garnering 3,745,588 views since February 2017.

In this episode, Darren talks to Evgeny Tchebotarev from Skylum about the magic recipe for capturing the perfect drone photo, as well as post processing. They also touch on the company history of Skylummand how they developed Airmagic.