An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board. Drones are becoming a powerful tool within the mapping and surveying industry. They can effectively perform work for 3D mapping, land surveys, photogrammetry, and topographic surveying with increased efficiency by flying above the ground. Construction drones provide benefits ranging from on-site safety to remote monitoring. Determining project costs, tracking construction progress, and providing updates – drones do these tasks by offering videos and imagery.
While multi-rotor drones are easier to fly, those fixed-wing models will shine when you need them to survey a few hundred acres at a time. Fixed-wing drones glide through the air and stay in the air longer than a multi rotor unit. Survey drones generate high-resolution orthopaedics and detailed 3D models of areas where low-quality, outdated or even no data, are available. They thus enable high-accuracy cad astral maps to be produced quickly and easily, even in complex or difficult to access environments