About the Author
Eric
RangePointGeo is where I document the drone mapping and GIS workflows I use professionally — written for people who want to understand the full pipeline, not just the flight.
My name is Eric. I'm a GIS scientist with a Master of Science in GIS, an FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate, and over 10 years of professional geospatial experience — 5 of those years doing drone mapping for real clients on real projects.
Background & Experience
Master of Science in GIS
Graduate-level study in spatial analysis, remote sensing, geodesy, and geospatial data management. Not a certificate program. A research degree from an accredited institution.
FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate
Commercially certified to operate UAS for hire in the United States. I fly for work, not just to make content.
10+ Years Professional Geospatial Experience
A decade of producing geospatial deliverables for engineering firms, government agencies, and environmental consultants — topographic surveys, corridor mapping, land use analysis, environmental monitoring.
5 Years Drone Mapping Field Experience
Real projects: construction site monitoring, volumetric stockpile calculations, LiDAR corridor surveys, multispectral agricultural mapping, orthomosaic production for survey-grade submissions.
Real Projects. Not Demo Data.
The content at RangePointGeo comes from field experience, not textbooks. Here's the kind of work I've done professionally:
- Topographic surveys for civil engineering firms requiring 5cm vertical accuracy or better
- LiDAR corridor mapping for utility and pipeline right-of-way assessment
- Construction site progress monitoring with volumetric cut/fill reporting
- Multispectral crop health surveys for precision agriculture applications
- Orthomosaic production for stormwater and drainage GIS datasets
- Emergency management aerial assessment mapping
- Municipal asset inventory surveys delivered into ArcGIS Online
The Gap I Kept Seeing
Most drone content covers only the flight. A few go into basic photogrammetry. Almost none cover what comes after — how to produce a deliverable that a licensed surveyor, a city engineer, or an environmental consultant can actually use.
And most GIS content assumes your data already exists. There's very little on the acquisition side — why your coordinate system matters at the sensor level, how GCP placement affects vertical accuracy, what your processing report is actually telling you.
I sat in both worlds professionally for years, watching drone pilots produce unusable deliverables and GIS analysts misinterpret drone data they didn't understand. So I built the resource I wished existed.
RangePointGeo documents the complete workflow — from flight planning through final deliverable — written by someone who has done it professionally and can explain the "why" behind every decision.
Who This Is For
- Drone pilots who want to produce professional-grade mapping deliverables.
- GIS professionals who receive drone data and want to understand it.
- Surveyors and engineers building in-house drone mapping capability.
- Municipal GIS departments integrating drone workflows into existing systems.
- Environmental consultants adding aerial remote sensing to their toolkit.
If you need a resource that speaks both drone and GIS fluently, you're in the right place.
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