Renewable
Energy Monitoring
Renewable Energy Surveying/Mapping/GIS
Surveying drones boast quick data collection times, excellent positional accuracy and offer a safer experience in the field compared to traditional methods. They are an ideal complement to existing terrestrial equipment and also have the potential to help you expand your company’s services into brand new fields.
Applications
- Land surveying and cartography – High-resolution orthomosaics and 3D models enable surveyors to generate detailed cadastral maps capable of displaying property lines, drainage points and utilities.
- Land management – Simple topographic surveys are useful for environmental monitoring, planning efforts like site scouting and construction of roadways, buildings and infrastructure.
- Construction and infrastructure – Aerial data is valuable across every stage of the project workflow from topographical surveys for bidding and pre-construction to tracking earthworks progress, calculating stockpile volumes or generating weekly reports and monthly KPIs.
- Urban planning – Current maps and 3D models are helpful to city planners who analyze the complex dynamics of social, environmental and industrial areas and consider the impact of various development projects. Here, planners can measure roof heights, cast virtual shadows from buildings to simulate different times of day and segment areas by overlaying aerial and zoning maps.
Applications:
- Reduce field times – Fixed-wing surveying drones are estimated to be 80% quicker than traditional terrestrial methods - saving you time by collecting the data you need quickly and efficiently from a single point.
- Improve site access – A lightweight drone with remote mapping capabilities help you survey hard-to-reach and even potentially dangerous sites, such as mines, construction zones, landfills, forests and mountainous terrain with greater ease and safety – all without disrupting operations on the ground.
- Deliver high accuracy and quality – Fixed-wing surveying drones can help you gather data with ease while helping you maintain precision across each step of your workflow from the capture and processing to vectorization, quality control and delivery. For example, the eBee X can achieve a high absolute accuracy down to 3 cm / 1.2 in via built-in RTK/PPK – With no ground control points required.
- Expand your capabilities – Maximizing your data collection and spending less time in the field frees you up to take on more projects while knowing you’ll complete them quickly and more cost-effectively than ever before.
Outputs (depending on payload sensor selected):
- Orthomosaic raster – Large image comprised of adjoining orthorectified images that have been digitally reconstructed. Orthomosaic maps are helpful in surveying and GIS for monitoring site activity and measuring distances between points.
- 3D point cloud – Point clouds maps comprise millions of individual points featuring X, Y, Z geospatial coordinates and an RGB value. Surveyors in construction for example use them to calculate complex stockpile volumes and automate cut/fill analysis.
- Digital Surface Model (DSM) – 3D display of an area that includes the tops of buildings, trees and other ground-based objects. Detailed models captured by drone are valuable for tracking earthworks, water flow or flooding across terrain and measuring excavation depths.
- Digital Terrain Model (DTM) – 3D display of vector data that features natural terrain and regularly spaced points. DTMs can be used in planning new construction developments or monitoring changes to landscape for land management.
- 3D textured mesh – Realistic reproduction of an area using photogrammetry mapped to edges, faces, vertices and texture. 3D models are helpful in planning and inspections or in large construction projects when data needs to be widely shared with numerous corporate and public stakeholders.
