Thermal Imaging has many applications and the construction industry is beginning to harness its potential by using it during both construction and renovation processes to find faults and to establish compatibility with environmental standards. Roof inspections are a key component of this and the attachment of the thermal imaging camera to a drone or UAV makes these possible with minimal setup, safety risk, or danger of [...]
Drone flights over solid waste landfill sites are fast becoming accepted as an efficient way to conduct surveys over terrain that is often difficult and/or dangerous to navigate on foot. Couple this with the fact that you can put a drone in the sky for a lot less of a financial outlay than an airplane and making the most of this relatively new technology just makes good commercial sense. [...]
Drones offer the potential to be of great assistance in the UK when it comes to fighting the increasingly expensive war on water waste through pipe leakage. Anglian Water alone estimates the cost of water lost through leakage in their area to be in the region of £60 million so there is a strong financial as well as environmental incentive to cut the losses as fast as possible. A [...]
If you are looking at hiring a drone operator for any commercial reason, then you will see that drone operators need to be certified (often incorrectly referred to as licensed) by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). This is the legal requirement in the UK currently to operate commercial and it's vital that anyone that you hire to carry out aerial photography and video work on your [...]
Drones can prove to be a valuable tool in flood management, an increasing concern in the UK after the spate of flooding across the country in recent years, assisting both with standard and thermal imaging. UAVs can provide real-time imagery for fast and accurate reactions to a flood situation. Also, each drone flight is tailored to the exact customer requirements so you can be sure that you will receive [...]
Not a day seems to go by without drones hitting the news headlines in one way or another and it's not always good news. However, this recent news headline certainly demonstrates the potential for drones to be used in aerial survey work for all sorts of good causes - in this case, the fight against plastic pollution in our seas. Operation Plastic Tide is the brainchild of Ellie Mackay and [...]
The construction industry has been quick to adopt drones into their projects both as a planning tool, and a way of creating marketing materials that offer a bird's eye view of projects in a very visual way to potential clients. Landscape gardeners are now also beginning to take an interest in the photography and video opportunities that a UAV has to offer. It's therefore only a matter of [...]
The build-up of gases such as methane in landfill sites is a common problem for councils & landowners, particularly if the land is identified for development. Drilling boreholes to relieve the gas build-up, along with 'flash burning' the methane is a significant undertaking, so the identification of the heat spots and potential underground fires is critical. The use of drones to complete the survey and land inspection using thermal [...]
Drone Media Imaging - initial flight footage of a demolition project - MGM House in Worthing, West Sussex Demolition projects tend by nature to be large in area and difficult to photograph from ground level. Without a bird's eye view, potential clients may not get the full picture of the scale of your project and capabilities. The cost of hiring a helicopter is [...]
Business, not so as Usual! But Business nonetheless! Covid-19 Working Policy Coronavirus update on our business plans and preparations for our clients Ironically, Drone (UAV) work is built on a platform of social separation by default as we are required to ensure our aerial activity is safely separated from all people, property, vehicles, and vessels not under our control by law. This separation is 50m [...]
