The service provider and surveying company SysCAD Solutions SRL was commissioned to do a quarterly mapping of three cement quarries. Obtaining accurate data was critical for their client, as they pay taxes based on excavated volume.
SysCAD selected the eBee X drone equipped with the S.O.D.A. camera because of its regulatory advantages, which allowed it to:
Learn more about the challenges and the ROI of the project in this webinar.
Geospatial and agribusiness consulting firms NGS Lab and Agro Solutions, collaborated on a surveying project for a private client who needed to map an 8,000 ha / 19,768 ac investment property in Georgia.
The client wanted to determine the percentage of arable land, the most suitable crops for cultivation, and irrigation planning and design options.
The project’s size made the team choose two fixed-wing drones, eBee X and eBee Ag, that would be flown simultaneously. By deploying a multi-drone mission, the data was collected in just 3 days with three operators in the field.
Learn more about the challenges and the ROI of the project in this webinar and blog post.
When a flash flood devastated several infrastructures in the United Arab Emirates, Falcon Eye Drones (FEDS) used their fleet of eBee X to map 65 km2 in two days. The data collected was used by Al Ain Municipality to do an assessment of the situation and coordinate the allocation of resources.
In the 65 km2, there was a linear site, Al Khaznah, a major highway connecting Al Ain to the capital Abu Dhabi, requiring a massive corridor map of 50 km2 long and 500 m wide.
As the area was inaccessible, FEDS used six eBee X fixed-wing drones with the Corridor camera and the customized corridor mapping feature in eMotion flight planning software to quickly survey and map all eight flood-affected sites.
Thanks to the eBee X’s flight time and large coverage, the mission took 30% less time than a quadcopter and required 50% fewer flights and batteries.
The Land registry department of Lausanne (Switzerland) uses the eBee X drone with 3D camera S.O.D.A. 3D to periodically update the city’s cadastral maps, plan new urban areas, check infrastructure, monitor construction projects and study building façades.
The lightweight eBee X fixed-wing drone meets all the safety requirements of the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA) and ensures safe flights over people in Lausanne, which counts a population of 137,810. Live air traffic of the nearby airport and heliport is monitored with the eBee X’s Ping USB accessory.
*Please note that, due to the large scale of the project, the dataset contains only one mapping.
To accurately measure coal stockpile inventories at its port load stations, Colombian mining company Drummond Ltd. turned to eBee X fixed-wing drones.
The company’s survey team uses the large-area mapping drone to gather data quickly without interrupting operations while improving data quality and completely avoiding high-risk areas for increased safety.
Drone photogrammetry allows the mining company to increase its data volume, data quality and overall accuracy, all while removing surveyors from harm’s way.
GPS SUL Agrimensura, a Brazilian service provider, was commissioned to survey a coastal area of 676 ha / 1,670 ac and gather insights for construction planning.
The goal of the Municipality was to check the industrial development potential and to have enough data for the preparatory and exploration construction phase.
Although the mission seemed simple, the area presented strong and constant winds during the day, so the flight window was 2 hours per day.
GPS Sul Agrimensura team selected the eBee Geo fixed-wing drone because of its great performance even in windy conditions. The reduced flight window per day made them decide to fly multi-drone and collect all the data in just 2 hours.
Results:
Medellín is Colombia’s second most populous city after Bogotá, the capital, with a population of 2.5 million.
The drone engineering consulting Jab Visual recently made a digital twin of 18,000 ha / 44,480 ac of the city with the eBee X drone and the S.O.D.A. 3D camera for the Municipality. After the post-processing with PIX4DMatic, they obtained high-accurate 3D models and orthomosaics of 97% of Medellín.
Main applications:
Update cadastral maps of the city, urban and rural classification, maps of hard-to-reach sites and monitoring construction sites.
*Please note that, due to the large scale of the project, the dataset contains only a fraction of the entire data.
The area near Playa Bonita was once used by the U.S. Army as a military base, but in recent years has undergone a surge of development. The beach itself is somewhat rocky but borders a calm section of the Pacific Ocean. This dataset was collected in a single flight by an eBee X carrying a S.O.D.A. 3D camera.
Mapping of a 320 ha / 790 ac former open-pit mine in New Caledonia for soil restoration. The main challenges were maintaining a homogeneous GSD with different bench heights and site inaccessibility.
The eBee X drone, S.O.D.A. 3D camera and eMotion flight planning software allowed the team to efficiently generate a high-resolution 3D model. Read the case study here.
These orthomosaic, digital surface model (DSM) and point cloud are one of the outputs generated during the survey of a 14 meters deep landslide. The colossal size of the cracking alerted experts to respond quickly in order to prevent the slope from sliding off completely and consuming the nearby road network. The Georgian National Environmental Agency mapped the landslide with the eBee X drone and Aeria X camera, and processed it with PIX4Dmapper. Thanks to the maps generated with the drone data, the team of experts could study the volume, curvature and movement of the landslide, to detect its direction, type, velocity, depth, and at the same time identify cracks and flow accumulation. Read the case study here.
