Subcontract Drone Survey Service
Due to a change in strategic direction, as of the 1st of January 2018, Aerial Hotshots will no longer offer drone survey services. Aerial Hotshots uses the AscTec Falcon 8 and the Event38 E384 for Drone Survey assignments. These Drones are professional grade survey quality drones that are proven and tested in the survey industry. They are far superior in flight software, payload options, data acquisition capability, has precision software and the end product is well advanced. These Drones capture accurate georeferenced imagery that is essential for survey operations and both are fitted with next generation sensors that provide significantly higher precision in the measurement of the drones speed, attitude and position and therefore more reliable. Subcontract us for your next assignment.
Due to a change in strategic direction, as of the 1st of January 2018, Aerial Hotshots will no longer offer drone survey services.
“A Smart, Safe, Efficient and Cost Effective Alternative to Traditional Surveying”
“Save your capital and use subcontractors who have the latest equipment, insurance and licensing”
Why Use Our Drone Survey Subcontracting Service
The service is designed for Surveyors and Surveying Firms. The rapidly evolving drone industry makes it difficult to keep pace with the constant changes in technology which can result in you owing outdated equipment. Let us take this risk away from you. We will maintain the latest equipment and subcontract our services to you.
We will deploy our pilot and equipment to your assignment, capture the data, and hand the data over to you . You can then process internally allowing you control over your quality assurance processes.
Don’t risk your capital on:
- The purchase of a Drone that will quickly become outdated,
- Mandatory CASA licencing,
- Costly insurance outlays,
- Specialised staff training.
We have the survey grade equipment and qualified staff necessary to complete your next assignment. Subcontract us for your next assignment.
PPK Technology
As your subcontractor we can work with your traditional ground control, our Post Processed Kinematic (PPK) technology or a combination of both.
Our Survey drones are fitted with a Post Processed Kinematic (PPK) camera positioning system that:
- Produces high accuracy GNSS camera positions,
- Increases the accuracy in photogrammetric mapping,
- Reduces ground control requirements (efficient and cost effective).
- Capture of high resolution imagery,
Benefits of this service:
- Overall, it is a cost effective, efficient and safe alternative to obtaining the data for generating a DEM and the associated plans (contour plans, topographical maps, volume calculations etc.) The data is the same, just gathered in a different way.
- Cost effectiveness relates to the cheaper acquisition of data and benefit of receiving aerial imagery and orthophotos from the same data. This additional information can be helpful for temporal analysis and collaboration between all parties involved,
- Efficiency relates to the ability to keep your surveyors and engineers on more important tasks while we gather the data. Time consuming and costly tasks like licensing, approvals, product research, risk assessment and flight planning are all completed by us.
- Safety relates to your team members not being placed in dangerous environments. For example, outdoors and at heights.
- The accuracy can be better than a traditional method due to the dense point cloud generation. Image pixels are given X, Y, Z coordinates so there is more elevation information for the DEM.
- Additionally we can provide
- 3D visualization plans
- High definition aerial videos
- The technology we employ reduces the need for ground control points but we still obtain +/-50mm vertical accuracy. This adds to the cost effectiveness, efficiency and safety of the job.
- We utilize state of the art RPAs, equipped with triple redundant systems for added safety and a full frame 36MP camera.
Multirotor
The AscTec Falcon 8 went into serial production in 2009 and is since used globally for professional applications. For your projects the octocopter offers unprecedented precision and safety with the reliable AscTec High-Performance GPS and the new control unit AscTec Trinity. Our AscTec Falcon 8, fitted with PPK technology, will capture accurate georeferenced imagery that is essential for survey operations.
It is fitted with next generation sensors that provide significantly higher precision in the measurement of the drones speed, attitude and position and therefore more reliable. It has triple redundant IMU for maximum safety, three inertial measurement units to ensure quick and reliable data fusion, data verification. The camera gimbal has active stabilisation and vibration dampening.
- Standard: Sony A7 Camera which produces 36mp georeference imagery.
- Inspection Package: Infrared imagery and conventional imagery recorded simultaneously
- Video Package: 10x zoom that is ideal to zoom in a subject whilst inspecting infrastructure
- Infrared: FLIR Infrared Camera with AscTec IT Raw Data Logger.
Fixed Wing
The Event38 E384, fitted with PPK technology, will capture accurate georeferenced imagery that is essential for survey operations.
Its customized mission planner package automatically plans flight lines and overlap based on the sensor and desired ground resolution.
For repeat jobs, we can save a mission and retrieve it with a few clicks. The Intellishoot smart image capture system ties the camera in to the autopilot and GPS for precise control.
It takes pictures at the planned overlap rate, and saves the GPS coordinate for each image automatically.
Images and geotags are saved in industry standard formats.
For the standard survey work, the drone is fitted with a Sony QX1, that captures 20mp imagery.