BBC One Show filming of the Marble Racing at Merthyr Mawr, Sand Dunes, Bridgend, Wales, with One Show science presenter Marty Jopson
It was a baking hot day so ideal for spending on the beach along with all the other folk that were involved in the production of this fun piece regarding the construction of a sand marble rally course. Plenty of our drone footage was included and we feel it was perfect for sharing the scale of this project with the viewer – an aerial perspective shows off the size of the course brilliantly in a way that a ground perspective wouldn’t have been able to do.
Always lovely to see your work on the television, especially when it is part of one of the BBC’s flagship shows – the One Show. This was such a fun project to be a part of and I really enjoy the variety that working alongside the team provides in terms of cinematography.
Solar String Testing: What the Curve Tells You That a Thermal Image Cannot
A thermal survey shows where a solar array is losing energy as heat. A string test shows how much a string is actually producing, and its I-V curve shows what kind of fault is holding it back. Some faults only the camera can see, others only the meter. This post explains what string testing measures, how the curve is read alongside the thermal images, and what to check about your own system before booking a combined survey of the array.
A Thermal Survey and a Building Survey Answer Different Questions
A building survey and a thermal survey both carry the word survey, and they answer different questions. One is a qualified professional's judgement on the condition of a structure. The other records where the envelope loses heat, admits air or holds moisture, under conditions written down at the time. Drone Media Imaging provides the second, and holds no surveying qualification. This is how the two work together, what each needs from the other, and why the boundary is what makes the evidence usable.
Which Building First? Thermal Survey Across a Property Portfolio
A thermal survey of one building answers a question about that building. A survey of a whole portfolio answers a different question, which is where the repair budget should go first. That second answer only holds if the surveys were designed to be compared, which means conditions logged per elevation, camera settings fixed and held, and capture geometry kept consistent from block to block. This is how a set of buildings becomes an ordered starting point rather than a stack of reports.
