About Skyfish
The future of precise drone data collection and analysis. The autonomous drone platform designed to inspect, measure, map, and model critical infrastructure.
Evolving a drone platform
Skyfish's History
Skyfish was founded in 2014 by Dr. Orest Pilskalns, CEO and John Livingston, Chairman. Dr. Pilskalns is a computer scientist, GIS expert, and Montana native. He is considered a pioneer in mapping technology and the development of digital twins in support of critical infrastructure. John Livingston built and mentored several successful technology companies, including Absolute and Telmediq acquired by K1/PerfectServe. Pilskalns and Livingston worked together on a mapping service project, GeoMonkey Inc. prior to Skyfish.
The inspection and measurement of critical infrastructure was traditionally done manually, and then using helicopters, both fraught with errors and lacked the detail engineers needed to make safe decisions. Until recently, quadcopters were not yet able to support high end sensors and data processors didn’t know how to direct pilots to take the photos at the right angles and collect the right data.
Dr. Pilskalns met Jim Reavis who saw an opportunity to improve the process with drones. Dr. Pilskalns started to design a lightweight drone, able to contour infrastructure in a way that helicopters can not, and tightly integrate the highest quality sensor so that photos could be taken and geotagged automatically at a rate that allows our photogrammetry teams to produce exceptional models.
Vision
Enable customers to generate the data and exceptional models needed to support the safety and efficacy of America’s critical infrastructure.
Culture & Philosophy
Data accuracy is our business – and it is our means of capturing the data that is extremely unique. To foster innovation and precision within the organization we set highly specific goals and empower the team to test and iterate until they are achieved.