# Presentation: 685810

## Aerial Services Inc.

- Brief Overview of
- NAIP 2005 Participation

## Awarded Project Areas	

- Minnesota
- 2m – 5,889 DOQQ
- 11,937 Exposures
- 87 Counties
- Iowa
- 2m – 4,181 DOQQ
- 8,389 Exposures
- 99 Counties

## Time Line of Start

- March 28-April 1:
- Onsite Training of Sub-contractors
- 		Scan – AT – Ortho Production
- May 21: Official Notice of Award
- June 1: Start of Minnesota Fly Window
- June 15: 1st Day of Minnesota Acquisition
- June 15: Start of Iowa Fly Window
- June 23: 1st Day of Iowa Acquisition

## Team ASI – Photo Acquisition	

- Only used four of the eight aircraft available
- No extensions needed
- ABGPS collected for all exposures

## Flight Summary 

| Project Area | First Day of Photography | Last Day of Photography | Number of Days Actually Used for Acquisition | Number of Days in Season | % of  Allowed Days Flown | Extension Reasons |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Minnesota | 06/15       [06/01] | 08/28                       [08/31] | 27 | 92 | 28.3% | No Extensions Finished 
3 days early |
| Iowa | 16/23       [06/15] | 08/29                            [09/15] | 27 | 93 | 28.0% | No Extensions Finished 
18 days early |

- Dates in brackets are actual contract dates for project areas

## Number of Days Flown

| 
Year | Total # of Days from start of flight to finish: IA and MN | Avg. # of Days flown per aircraft |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2005 | 107 | 22 |
| 2004 | 88 | 23 |
| 2003 | 94 | 26 |

## Photo Acquisition:          Daily Maximums

| 
Year | Maximum # of Miles Flown in one day by one aircraft | Maximum # of Exposures Flown in one day by one aircraft | 
Number of DOQQ’s Covered |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2005 | 1,835 | 850 | 424 |
| 2004 | 1,488 | 689 | 344 |
| 2003 | 1,244 | 576 | 288 |

## Photo Acquisition:          Daily Averages

| 

Year | Avg # of Exposures Flown per day/per aircraft | 
Avg # of DOQQ Covered per day/per aircraft | 
Avg # of Miles: per day/per aircraft |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2005 | 288 | 144 | 622 |
| 2004 | 236 | 118 | 510 |
| 2003 | 206 | 103 | 445 |

## Team ASI Per Aircraft Averages 

| 
Year | Average Exposures per Aircraft per  Season | Average DOQQ’s per Aircraft per Season | Average # of Miles per Aircraft per  Season |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2005 | 5,265 | 2,633 | 11,368 |
| 2004 | 5,560 | 2,780 | 12,010 |
| 2003 | 5,297 | 2,649 | 11,442 |

## Photo Acquisition Problems

- Nothing to speak of – normal stuff

## Team ASI Scanning 

- Scanning:
- Multiple site locations – Subs given base scan to match
- Five of eight scanners available were used
- Capacity used 60-75%
- FTP site and USB Hard Drives used to share data between ASI and Sub-contractors
- ASI purchasing new scanner

## Team ASI Analytics

- Used 25% of ASI analytic capacity
- ASI visited each site for pre-project training
- All production facilities using same software
- Avg. block size contained +/- 500 frames
- Turn Around Time Per Block: 24 hours
- Data pulled from sub-contractor and completed by ASI to facilitate faster delivery

## Team ASI Ortho Production

- Database - On going improvements
- Sub-contractors were able to utilize real-time database
- ASI did all of Iowa and a portion of Minnesota
- Subs did the remainder of Minnesota Orthorectification
- ASI capacity was under utilized due to contracts with sub-consultants
- Mosaicking and tonal balancing of data from multiple sites  - few problems due to pre-training

## Team ASI: Delivery Summary

| Project Area | 1st Delivery of CCM | 

Last Delivery of CCM | CCM Early Delivery | Last Delivery of 
Final Deliverables
DOQQ’s | DOQQ Early Delivery | Final Delivery
Film | Film Early Delivery |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MN
87 counties | 
08/24 |  9/21/05                     [9/30/05] | 9 days | 09/29/05
[12/29/05] | 90 days | 09/27/05
[12/29/05] | 92 days |
| IA
99 counties | 07/28 | 9/12/05                           [10/15/05] | 34 days | 09/19/05
[01/13/06] | 117 days | 09/27/05
[01/13/06] | 108 days |

- Dates in brackets are actual contract dates for project areas

## Fuel Price Increase by Year

| Year | Avg. Fuel Prices | Fuel Cost Increase from Previous Year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2002 | $2.55 |   |
| 2003 | $2.80 | 8.93% |
| 2004 | $3.01 | 6.98% |
| 2005 | $5.18 | 41.89% |

## Questions–Discussion-Suggestions

- Aerial Services Inc.
- 1-877-ASI-4GIS

- Kirk Fisher
- kfisher@asi-gis.com
- Coral Schneberger
- cschne@asi-gis.com

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