About Survae
Survae offers a complete cloud-based solution for geolocated video, imagery and data, providing the tools needed to view data-enabled imagery with context provided by powerful mapping and analytic tools. Our map-based, data-driven platform provides a powerful and intuitive way to find, manage, request and share content.
Get Context
The use of video and other imagery by enterprise, government and NGOs is exploding — from ground-based smartphones and action cameras to UAVs. UAVs, in particular, provide an incredibly powerful perspective. But the video and imagery recorded by all of of these devices lacks a crucial element: context. Survae allows its clients to get context about every second of what they are seeing by connecting their video and other imagery to maps — making it easy for any organization to get advanced data from the sky, ground or water.
Survae’s cloud-based platform provides all the tools needed to view data-enabled imagery with powerful mapping and analytic tools. Metadata-based search and video playback make managing and sharing imagery simple. We connect all imagery to a set of base maps and clients can then bring in any GIS map they want as a layer. Map formats we currently support include Esri shapefiles, kmz, and kml.
Share and Collaborate
Survae uniquely provides a platform that supports any organization that needs to view, manage, find and share a lot of video or imagery from multiple sources. Survae is built to support not only virtually any kind of data-enabled imagery from multiple devices, but also from disparate sources — different service providers, internal and external users, and multiple viewpoints (aerial, ground, and submarine).
Video, in particular, is difficult to share due to large file sizes. Survae’s cloud solution solves this problem by encoding all video files in web-standard formats and in a variety of sizes — from 480p to 4k — enabling shareable links to any media connected to the map. You can also embed Survae’s video/map player on any website or provide clients with private access to their own media where they can view, work with and share all of their content.
Multi-camera Support
Unlike other products, which are drone or camera-specific, Survae offers open support for aerial, ground and submarine video and imagery, providing an ideal solution for managing and working with the massive amount of images being recorded by UAVs and ground-based cameras. We are agnostic about the source as long as it’s data-enabled. We work with all kinds devices including UAVs, smartphones, GoPros and Garmins, police dash cams and body cams, surveillance cameras, underwater cameras, helicopter or plane-mounted cameras, plus satellites.
Whether you are doing infrastructure inspections, managing conserved land or emergency response, Survae provides all the tools needed to acquire the needed imagery, view it with context, share it, and manage it using a map-based interface.
Founding Team
Eric Hesterman
Founder and CEO
Eric founded and built the majority of Survae. He has over three decades of technology experience, including software, IT, engineering, manufacturing, and with various transportation industries. Most recently, he was involved in the planning of international economic, humanitarian and infrastructure public-private partnership projects in accordance with UN and IMF programs.
Chris Allport
CEO, Skayl
Chris serves as a valued technical advisor to Survae, with a depth of knowledge that comes from years of development work for NATO, the US military and intelligence communities. One of the foremost unmanned and mapping technology experts in the world, Chris has developed unmanned vehicle systems for the US Dept. of Defense, built an early forerunner of Google Earth, and developed the US Navy’s UAV control station systems.