Idaho Airships, Inc.

07/02/2024

Hit the wires...

Boise’s Leo Geis has been seated on a federal NIST Forensic Sciences Committee on digital imaging. NIST provides expertise in science enhancing the U.S. economic competitive posture and integrity. Geis’ foci include admissibility and veracity of visual evidence; his expertise includes optics, oc...

05/28/2024

Downtown Boise, Idaho, 5/26/24. sUAS imagery in full compliance with FAA Part 107 (14 CFR 107).

05/12/2024

Detail of cranes at Micron expansion; visible from Interstate 84. This view is southeast, toward Mountain Home. On assignment, 5/9/24.

05/12/2024

Stuff & things going on at Micron. On assignment, 5/9/24.

05/11/2024

View east along Interstate 84 from Star Rd. (along the bottom of the image) through downtown Boise and the Boise Airport. From Star Rd. to the Capitol is 12.85 Nautical Miles (14.78 Statute Miles) in a straight line... 5/9/24.

05/10/2024

State Highway 16 extension project viewing south from Chinden (SH20/26) to Interstate 84, 5/9/24.

05/01/2024

Did a forensic thing.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/idaho-airships-incs-geis-seated-forensic-sciences-committee-geis-n3jdc/

10/05/2022

What an aerial "oblique" photography mission looks like in plan view. Flight of 10/2/22, 28 subjects. We keep the GPS data for a number of reasons, from corroborating camera time (we use GMT time, or "Zulu" time as we can cross time zones) to ensuring we haven't been inefficient (the data includes speed and altitude) to ensuring that we haven't violated any airspace or ATC instructions. We protect our customers and ourselves. GPS data is accurate to within 10' and is sampled every 2 seconds (about 280' at our maneuvering speeds).

We also have the ability to record the flight via a very talented 360 video camera in the cockpit that interfaces with our intercom audio (ATC instructions and photographer-to-pilot verbal abuse and horribly stupid jokes).

05/03/2022

Correlated Color Temperature (CCT)-sometimes referred to as Color Temperature or White Balance-is a broadly misunderstood parameter in visible band imaging and thermographic praxis. This video is a primer on light, CCT, and relevant color management principles for photographers, videographers, and thermographers.

03/11/2022

Idaho Airships, Inc. is trained & certified to formulate, administer, and cost-justify thermal inspection programs. These programs involve more than thermography; e.g. we have on-site macro- and microscopy imaging capabilities into single digit microns. Perhaps more importantly we provide expertise in applied thermodynamics to identify and prevent developing issues like those (plural) manifest in the accompanying visible band macrophotograph.

03/08/2022

Thermography usually involves aggressively saturated and contrasted color schemes. That's unfortunate as it may be interpreted as imparting some technical merit to the data.

Intuitively, the same liabilities imposed to thermography apply to visible band imaging (photography and videography).

"It's complicated."

One of the most potent demonstrations of the problematic use of color exists in the discipline of thermography.