Drone survey for infrastructure & utilities
Corridor mapping and asset inspection for highways, railways, transmission lines, pipelines and canals - including vegetation encroachment and clearance analysis.
- Corridor per day
- 30 km
- Shutdown required
- No
- LiDAR classification
- Wire-level
Context
Corridors surveyed, assets inspected, clearances verified
Linear assets are hostile to conventional survey. A transmission line or a highway corridor is long, narrow, often inaccessible and frequently live, and a ground crew moving along it is exposed for the entire duration.
Aerial LiDAR flies the corridor at 20-30 kilometres a day and returns a classified point cloud where ground, vegetation, structures and conductors are separated. Clearance analysis then becomes a computation against your safety envelope rather than a judgement call made from a patrol vehicle.
For point assets - bridges, towers, chimneys, substations - we run close visual and thermal inspection with every defect measured, classified and pinned to a 3D model, so the next cycle compares against a real baseline instead of a folder of photographs.
What clients bring us
- Corridor survey teams working in live traffic and rail environments
- Vegetation encroachment on transmission lines found only by patrol
- Structure inspection requiring shutdown, scaffolding or rope access
- Route alignment studies over terrain nobody has surveyed recently
What we do about it
- LiDAR corridor capture with classified ground, vegetation and wire returns
- Automatic clearance and encroachment analysis against your safety envelope
- Close visual and thermal inspection with defects pinned to a 3D asset model
- Alignment-ready terrain models and chainage cross-sections for design
Relevant services
What infrastructure & utilities clients commission
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Working in infrastructure & utilities?
Send us the site, the area and what the data has to support. We respond within one working day - and if the method you asked for will not hit your accuracy target, we will say so before you commit.