Nicholas McCarty

Nicholas McCarty is a principal consultant at Upskilled Consulting, specializing in the application of deep learning, computer vision, and photogrammetry to geospatial and remote sensing workflows. His work focuses on extracting accurate, scalable insights from drone imagery using open-source tools and reproducible Python-based pipelines. Nicholas is the author of a recent peer-reviewed paper on performing object detection on drone orthomosaics using Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM), demonstrating how vision foundation models can produce spatially accurate results that outperform commercial software.