Through The Lens

There is a new spectral library in town! Nearview has released its beta web app https://speclib.nearview.net . This open-access library is currently focused on macroalgae (aka, seaweed) and intertidal resources in the northeast US. The library is now open for

Nearview is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a Phase 2 R&D grant from the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program! We are excited to be working with an amazing group of scientists and research organizations to build digital

Nearview is a leader in aerial drone remote sensing and analysis of the coastal environment. We are proud to announce that we have been selected as a NOAA SBIR Phase I grant recipient to develop an “AI Model for Automated Detection and Mapping of Intertidal

Nearview conducts mostly aerial drone environmental applications, but occassionally we get the call to collect imagery and inspect industrial facilities and infrastructure. One of our images was recently featured in an issue of LP Gas Magazine:

Can you imagine a natural or cultural resources field project today without a GPS? Similarly, at Nearview we envision and realize a future where drones will be a necessary tool for every environmental science field project. Our surveys are highly accurate and

#Nearview uses #drone tech to support the #insuranceclaim as well as #historicpreservation industries by providing #3dmodeling of buildings with tagged high-resolution images to highlight and identify damage and areas of concern. This is a particularly useful

Nearview is proud to be a sponsor of this year’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival showing at the Red River Theatres in Concord, NH on Friday, March 27, 2020 (https://nhrivers.org/film-festival-2020/). This sold-out event is hosted by the New Hampshire Rivers

Amazing what landscapes can form in sand with a little water. A closer look reveals one of our surveyors taking a well-deserved break after fat-biking miles of beach to set aerial targets. Nearview successfully completed its Fall season of beach surveys for

Today we were thrilled to photo the entire eighth grade class from York Middle School on Long Sands Beach in York, Maine. Following a morning of beach cleanup these activist kids organized to form a human sign and express their concern over pollution,

Nearview conducted #eelgrass surveys in Penobscot Bay this past week for the Maine DEP. During UAS survey we coincidentally imaged nature in action – an impressive tornado of hundreds of schooling fish in shallow water. We are uncertain of species, but