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GeoCue elevates survey-grade drone mapping with Ouster's baba-compliant Native Color Rev8 digital lidar. Provided by Business Wire Sep 2, 2026, 9:00:00 AM Pairing survey-grade precision with Ouster's 256-channel Rev8 OS1 Max lidar, GeoCue's latest TrueView lineup sets a new benchmark for U.S. drone surveying Ouster, Inc. (Nasdaq: OUST) ("Ouster" or the "Company"), a leader in sensing and perception for Physical AI, announced a strategic partnership with GeoCue, a premier provider of drone mapping payloads and software, to integrate Ouster's native color Rev8 OS1 Max digital lidar into GeoCue's TrueView product line. The collaboration pairs GeoCue's TrueView 1 payloads and LP360 software with Ouster's digital lidar to deliver survey-grade data to the utility and infrastructure industries. Ouster Rev8 OS1 Max on GeoCue's TrueView drone payload, mapping a construction site (product rendering). GeoCue is expanding its TrueView lineup to include options featuring the Ouster Rev8 OS1 Max, which is Build America, Buy America Act (BABA)-compliant. These new options give customers who have domestic production requirements a high-performance solution without technical compromises. Ouster and GeoCue selected the Rev8 OS1 Max after joint flight testing and firmware tuning in Huntsville, Alabama. "We are moving America's drone surveying onto American sensing by pairing our TrueView payloads with Ouster's Rev8 OS1 Max," said Frank Darmayan, CEO of GeoCue. "This transition allows us to offer our customers a compliant, high-performance solution that delivers the survey-grade data they depend on for critical infrastructure monitoring and large-scale mapping projects." The Rev8 OS1 Max brings four key advantages to GeoCue's utility and infrastructure customers: * Superior Precision: A smaller spot size and tighter beam allow TrueView payloads to resolve thin objects such as power lines and structural edges. * Expanded Operational Range: Longer range (200m at 10% reflectivity) clears altitude restrictions around utility corridors, letting operators fly higher while maintaining data quality. * Native Color Integration: The Rev8 OS1 Max captures native color in addition to 3D lidar data, so every point arrives inherently aligned to its color. Alongside the dual cameras in every TrueView payload, that gives LP360 an additional RGB reference for registering camera imagery to the point cloud, enabling tighter sensor fusion. * Density at Speed: 256 channels in 2K and 4K modes keep point density high even at fast flight speeds, supporting long-corridor surveys by propeller and fixed-wing aircraft. "Our partnership with GeoCue is a testament to how native color digital lidar can serve as the bedrock for physical AI applications that have a profound impact on infrastructure and public safety," said Ouster CEO Angus Pacala. "By integrating our Rev8 OS1 Max sensor, we are providing the survey-grade precision and reliability required to empower the next generation of drone mapping professionals." Experience the Rev8 OS1 Max for Drone Surveying at Commercial UAV Expo Ouster will be showcasing its Rev8 OS1 Max native color digital lidar at Booth #1653 during the Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas (September 1-3, 2026). Attendees can stop by the booth for live hardware demonstrations or schedule a meeting with our technical team. About Ouster Ouster (Nasdaq: OUST) is a leader in sensing and perception for Physical AI across industrial, robotics, automotive, and smart infrastructure. With a unified platform of high-performance digital lidar, cameras, AI compute, sensor fusion and perception software, and AI models, Ouster delivers solutions that improve quality of life in the physical world. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Ouster has a global presence serving thousands of customers with offices in the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. For more information about our products, visit www.ouster.com, contact our sales team, or connect with us on X or LinkedIn. About GeoCue GeoCue brings geospatial professionals advanced drone, mobile and terrestrial surveying equipment, point-cloud processing software, workflows, training and support for high-accuracy LiDAR and imagery mapping. With TrueView LiDAR and imaging sensors and LP360 point-cloud processing software, GeoCue provides complete solutions for successful data collection, processing, quality control and deliverable creation. 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Ouster has partnered with GeoCue to integrate its Rev8 OS1 Max digital lidar into GeoCue's TrueView drone mapping payloads. The collaboration combines GeoCue's TrueView 1 payloads and LP360 software with Ouster's lidar technology to deliver survey-grade data for utility and infrastructure industries. The Rev8 OS1 Max is Build America, Buy America Act–compliant, providing customers with domestic production requirements a high-performance solution. The sensor offers superior precision for resolving thin objects like power lines, expanded operational range of 200 metres at 10% reflectivity, and native colour integration alongside 3D lidar data. GeoCue is expanding its TrueView lineup to include options featuring the Ouster sensor following joint flight testing in Huntsville, Alabama. The partnership aims to support critical infrastructure monitoring and large-scale mapping projects.

John Deere's GUSS Automation to integrate Ouster lidar into autonomous orchard machines. GUSS Automation, a wholly owned John Deere subsidiary and a pioneer in autonomous high-value crop operations, plans to incorporate Ouster's Rev8 OS0 native color digital lidar sensors, powered by the breakthrough L4 Ouster Silicon, into the next generation of its Autonomous Orchard Machine Fleet. The integration is expected to further expand machine capabilities while underscoring the role of advanced sensing technologies in helping autonomous agricultural machines operate in complex outdoor environments. Building on Ouster's recent momentum in industrial robotics, GUSS is embedding Ouster and other enterprise-grade capabilities into agricultural duty cycles. High-value crop environments introduce significant navigation challenges, as traditional GPS systems often lack the centimeter-level precision necessary to safely navigate dense orchards and vineyards. Through a planned integration of Ouster's Rev8 OS0 digital lidar, GUSS is addressing these complexities with additional perception capabilities for autonomous operations. Ouster technology equips driverless sprayers with an ultra-wide field of view, enabling them to map tree trunks, crop rows, and ground contours with a high level of detail. These autonomous vehicles also benefit from the dense 3D point cloud data Ouster lidar delivers, allowing them to support navigation and obstacle detection across a range of outdoor operating conditions, including varying lighting environments. Jason Brantley, vice president, production systems, small ag and turf at John Deere, says: "At GUSS, Robotics & Automation News is focused on developing autonomous solutions that help growers address the unique challenges of high-value crop production. "Integrating advanced sensing technologies into our machines helps support reliable operation in complex orchard environments and provides growers with tools designed to improve productivity and operational flexibility." Ouster's Rev8 architecture delivers a unique combination of highly accurate, dense 3D depth data, high dynamic range native color, and extreme structural ruggedness. Engineered to meet the rigorous demands of production deployments in unstructured settings, the Rev8 platform brings enhanced environmental resilience to the field. With the planned Rev8 integration, Ouster native color lidar sensors will provide additional sensing capabilities in challenging orchard environments, including dust, spray, and dense vegetation. This level of reliable sensing allows a single operator to monitor up to eight autonomous machines simultaneously from a laptop, providing complete control of spraying job outcomes executed by Orchard GUSS and Mini GUSS machines in a wide range of permanent crops. Spraying is just the first application: the same lidar-powered autonomy approach can be leveraged by other orchard and vineyard operations. Ouster CEO Angus Pacala, says: "John Deere's decision to integrate Ouster's Rev8 digital lidar technology represents an important milestone for the future of American agriculture. "As GUSS leverages Ouster's digital lidar in its autonomous fleet, Robotics & Automation News is empowering growers to achieve new levels of precision and efficiency. "This announcement is about more than technology. It is about scaling reliable solutions that make agricultural operations more resilient and sustainable." Rev8 is the most rugged sensor family Ouster has ever built, providing a validated path to production scale that eliminates the compromises traditionally associated with operating complex robotics in heavy-duty outdoor environments.