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U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground’s Directorate of Public Works (DPW) has three major projects to begin digitizing the installation’s physical inventory and ensuring digital records are up to date and accurate.
DPW has established a project order with U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center Huntsville to conduct seven drone flight missions to update the installations aerial photography within the Geographic Information System (GIS).
The first drone flight is slated for mid-December and expected to take one week. Additional missions are tentatively scheduled for the last week of each month until all inventory is accounted for.
The GIS Drone Project’s first mission/flights will take place at Walker, Howard, and Kofa cantonments as well as Laguna Airfield. The flights will provide DPW with critical insight into the proving ground’s real property inventory and give the Real Property and Master Planning Division a clear picture of facilities that require further review.
Digitizing the installation and its assets is an important tool in ensuring mission readiness and sustaining building infrastructure investment. With information about condition, functionality, and remaining service life, short- and long-range work plans can be developed based on sound investment strategies, prioritization criteria and budget constraints.
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