UAV Surveys Ltd used a DJI Matrice 400 equipped with a Zenmuse P1 to carry out a stockpile survey on a new build housing estate in Norfolk. Material management is a daily consideration on a housing development. As excavation and construction progress, stockpiles grow, move and reduce. Understanding the quantities held on site helps contractors plan earthworks, assess material available for reuse and make informed decisions about removal or further deliveries. For this project

I want to put something on record, because I keep encountering the consequences of it on live projects. Across construction and infrastructure, clients are paying for drone surveys and receiving drone shoots. A pilot flies a site, captures several hundred attractive aerial images, delivers them in a folder, and invoices for a survey. The client signs it off because the images look professional and the site is clearly visible in them. Then, months later, a volume figure gets c

Using UAV LiDAR to Understand Surface Water Run-Off Project Overview UAV Surveys was commissioned to undertake a detailed topographical survey of a park in London, with the primary objective of providing accurate terrain information that could be used to understand how surface water moves across the site. For this project, the quality of the underlying terrain model was particularly important. Small variations in level can significantly affect the direction of surface-water f

There is a tendency to think of a drone survey as the point at which the aircraft flies over a site and takes a lot of photographs. In reality, that is probably the least interesting part of the process. The aircraft is simply the means of collecting the observations. The useful survey information comes later, when those observations are processed, positioned, checked and converted into a dataset that can actually be used by a surveyor, engineer or contractor. A typical UAV s

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In the rapidly evolving field of surveying and mapping, drones—also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)—have transformed the landscape, providing a cost-effective and efficient means of capturing high-resolution imagery and data. However, the accuracy of drone surveys can vary significantly based on the technology and methods employed. This article explores the accuracy of drone surveys with and without Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) GPS and Ground Control Points (GCPs), shed

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