Inspection Drones

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Using Drones for Inspection Applications

Tired of wasting your heavy equipment and manpower on routine inspections? Vision Aerial inspection drones can do the work in a fraction of the time. Using sophisticated sensors to gather a wide range of data, Vision Aerial systems accurately identify anomalies with fewer resources.

How Industries Leverage Drones for Inspections

drone with wind turbines in the background

Utilities & Power

Wind Turbine Inspection
Solar Field Inspection
Power Line Inspection
Hydroelectric
Cell Phone Towers

Construction

Project Monitoring
Roof Inspection
Building Inspection

Infrastructure

Bridge Inspection
Highway

Mining & Aggregates

Project Oversite
Slope Monitoring
Tailing Pond Monitoring

thermal image of fuel tanks at an oil refinery

Oil & Gas

Pipeline Inspeciton
Refinery Flare Tip Inspection
Tank Level Measuring

Agriculture

Crop Inspection
Land Use Surveying
Irrigation Inspection

Reduce Costs

Collect Superior Data

Improve Safety

Reach Inaccessible Areas

Why Vision Aerial?

Reduce Costs

Collect Superior Data

Improve Safety

Reach Inaccessible Areas

Why Vision Aerial?

Reduce Inspection Costs with Drones

Inspections are expensive. Especially depending on what you’re inspecting like pipelines, dams, wind turbines, etc. Difficult to reach locations require sizeable scaffolding or expensive snooper trucks. In some cases, the inspector must place themself in dangerous conditions. The combined costs of special equipment and liability insurance add up. According to a 2019 survey conducted by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, a bridge deck inspection conducted by a drone was a quarter of the cost of a manual inspection.

thermal image of a dam spillway taken with a drone

Receive Better Inspection Data, More Frequently

In the past, the most common type of inspection was visual. Inspectors now see the invisible with thermal drone cameras, infrared, multispectral imagers, radar, LiDAR, optical gas imaging payloads, and sonar. Furthermore, drones can quickly repeat past missions. With considerably lower costs, data persistence is improved through more frequent inspections. Then operators can more accurately deploy resources over time.

Use data collected during flights to create high-quality images, geo-tagged orthomosaic maps, point clouds, digital surface models (DSMs), digital terrain models (DTMs), and 3D models. These tools can provide additional insights and faster discovery of potential issues.

Improve Overall Safety with Inspection Drones

Drones for inspection don’t just remove people from dangerous situations. They also provide the ability to perform inspections more frequently. This ensures potential problems are spotted more quickly. The expanded datasets gathered from the sensors can then be imported into a wide variety of applications. The data can be used for risk management and to improve future solutions.