About Eric — The GIS Scientist Behind E2 Spatial
I help drone pilots produce survey-grade GIS deliverables — and GIS professionals understand where their drone data actually comes from.
The Credentials Behind the Training
Master of Science in GIS
Graduate-level training in spatial analysis, remote sensing, geodesy, and geospatial data management. Not a certificate program. Not self-taught. A research degree from an accredited institution.
FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate
Commercially certified to operate UAS for hire in the United States. I fly for work, not just to make content.
10+ Years Professional Geospatial Experience
A decade of producing geospatial deliverables for engineering firms, government agencies, and environmental consultants — topographic surveys, corridor mapping, land use analysis, environmental monitoring.
5 Years Drone Mapping Field Experience
Real projects: construction site monitoring, volumetric stockpile calculations, LiDAR corridor surveys, multispectral agricultural mapping, orthomosaic production for survey-grade submissions.
Real Projects. Not Demo Data.
The training at E2 Spatial comes from field experience, not textbooks. Here’s the kind of work I’ve done professionally:
- Topographic surveys for civil engineering firms requiring 5cm vertical accuracy or better
- LiDAR corridor mapping for utility and pipeline right-of-way assessment
- Construction site progress monitoring with volumetric cut/fill reporting
- Multispectral crop health surveys for precision agriculture applications
- Orthomosaic production for stormwater and drainage GIS datasets
- Emergency management aerial assessment mapping
- Municipal asset inventory surveys delivered into ArcGIS Online
Why I Built E2 Spatial
Every drone training platform teaches you to fly. A few teach you basic photogrammetry. Almost none teach you what happens after — how to produce a deliverable that a licensed surveyor, a city engineer, or an environmental consultant can actually use.
And every GIS training platform assumes your data already exists. Nobody teaches the acquisition side — why your coordinate system matters at the sensor level, how GCP placement affects your vertical accuracy, what your processing report is actually telling you.
I sat in both worlds professionally for years, watching drone pilots produce unusable deliverables and GIS analysts misinterpret drone data they didn’t understand. So I built the training I wished existed.
E2 Spatial covers the complete workflow — from flight planning through final deliverable — written by someone who has done it professionally and can explain the “why” behind every decision.
Who I Teach
Drone Pilots Who Want Professional-Grade Deliverables
You can fly. Now learn to produce outputs that engineers, surveyors, and municipalities will actually pay for.
GIS Professionals Who Receive Drone Data
Understand the acquisition side — why your drone data looks the way it does, what the accuracy report means, and how to validate it.
Surveyors & Engineers Building In-House Capability
RTK workflows, GCP methodology, accuracy standards, deliverable formats — the technical side, taught with field precision.
Municipal GIS & Government Departments
Integrating drone workflows into existing GIS systems. No vendor pitch — platform-agnostic guidance from someone who has delivered to government clients.
Software I Work With
- Agisoft Metashape — primary photogrammetry processing
- Pix4D — photogrammetry and inspection workflows
- WebODM / OpenDroneMap — open-source processing
- DJI Terra — DJI ecosystem flight planning and processing
- ArcGIS Pro & ArcGIS Online — GIS analysis and deliverable publishing
- QGIS — open-source GIS analysis
- LAStools & CloudCompare — LiDAR point cloud processing
- PDAL — point cloud pipeline automation