How drone mapping/surveying can help Infrastructure Projects?

Drone mapping is beginning to take off in the commercial drone industry as a new way to conduct business operations. Having eyes in the sky provides better access in hard-to-reach places, a way to collect information faster, and the possibility of taking employees out of harm's way.

Drone mapping is a very new mapping technology that is already disturbing previous techniques. Of course, satellite mapping still makes sense, and airplane mapping still makes sense, but it all depends on the resolution you want or area you need covered.

Drone mapping comes especially in handy when there’s a need for information on areas that change over time. Construction sites, agricultural fields, or mining sites are places where you need high-resolution surveying or measurements, and that change pretty frequently. That is where the drone becomes very valuable. A plane or satellite cannot compete with a drone that generates data on demand.

A Drone can make a 3D model or map of a building, survey land, and can inspect infrastructure.  It can provide high resolution aerial images delivering high accurate Topography data, 3D Point Clouds, Geo referenced Ortho-Photo, Contours, Digital Terrain Models (DTM) and Digital Surface Model (DSM) to enable better scoping, assessment, planning, surveying, design, inspection and maintenance decisions. 

In addition, the speed and resolution that comes from drone mapping is always improving. Apart from the resolution, what is improving all the time is the processing speed and the ability to get quick results while still having accurate results.

The drone industry is growing, with the whole market of professional applications just starting. There are millions of drones already flying and sold. The professional drone industry and specialization space is still starting but the goal is to go toward full automatic solutions so drones can fly over a power line and inspect it completely without human interaction.

About us:

Aero360 is an Aerial Services company based in Chennai, India. We provide Aerial Images from Drones/Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Geospatial Applications. Our services mark a step change in the acquisition of land survey data. We provide the topographic and other information you require to improve decision-making while reducing costs, saving time and improving safety. 

For major construction projects, infrastructure projects, quarries, mines and landfill sites, We provide highly-detailed digital elevation & terrain models with high-resolution photography to enable improved decision making.

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Pragadish Santhosh

www.aero360.co.in