Aerial Drone Surveys for Quarries across the UK.
The minerals that can be extracted from a quarry must be evaluated and surveyed to ensure that this vital asset is protected.
Our quarry surveys use drones to map out a site that is being used for excavation of mineral resources. At Balmore, our drone services can provide detailed drone survey services for major quarry and landfill operators across Scotland, providing topographical surveys, volumetric surveys and scheduled updates on quarry sites for investor reporting.
Our drone surveys can be used to provide product stockpile updates as well as volume verification of key site assets. As part of our bespoke services we can conduct drone surveys for mapping an entire quarry site, conduct blast analysis and calculate mineral extraction quantities to ensure that you meet set planning restrictions.
By using drone surveys for your quarry site, you benefit from accurate data which can be used for future planning and evaluation purposes. Current ground based survey work pales in comparison to what a drone survey can offer your business.
We are fully accredited by ARPAS-UK, and our drone inspection pilots all have their commercial PFAW pilots licence, fully approved by the CAA. This allows us to conduct our drone surveys both in the air and underwater to the highest of standards while following strict rules and regulations governing drone flights in public spaces.
With our fleet of commercial aerial drone survey vehicles, we can perform aerial inspection services on both land and sea for our customers. And with thermal imaging and 4K HD camera and video capturing technology, we can capture crystal clear data that can then be transmitted back to our Award Winning Software for further analysis.
It allows our inspection services to be conducted quickly, with minimal downtime for our customers and with fast paced results that can provide significant time and cost savings over conventional methods.
How can aerial drone surveys be so beneficial?
Traditional inspection methods for anything from wind farm turbines to oil rig platforms and railway bridges would require a team of inspection personnel. Usually this team would be comprised of specialist inspection officers who were trained in working ‘at height’. If the inspection was being conducted at sea then a Safety Support Boat may be required. If the inspection required up close examination, this would require scaffolding or Rope Access which itself would be a significant extra cost along with the highly likely production shut down while the inspection was being carried out. A railway bridge inspection for example may require trains to be delayed or suspended while an inspection was being carried out.
So how can aerial drone surveys be so much more beneficial? Well with modern commercial drone inspection services, we can send one of our UAV drone equipped with Video, Photography and Thermal Imaging Cameras to an inspection point in mere minutes. Our drones can capture a vantage point from multiple angles and distances with both video and photography and can cover an entire inspection site in a fraction of the time that it would take a conventional team to perform.
All the photo and thermal imaging data can then be fed into our Award Winning software which can produce a detailed report breakdown far faster than conventional inspection reporting. And all this data can be archived easily for future inspection comparison – in fact, our drones can trace a previous GPS saved flight path so that we can take like for like photo and video footage for the most accurate comparison you can hope for.
